Getting Organized:
In your home and homeschool
Do you have a dust bunny colony living under your living room furniture? Today I want you to move the living room furniture and clean under it. Enlist the help of someone if you need help moving it. Don’t attempt this alone. We have laminate flooring, so our furniture moves easily for us to clean under it. That also means it is easy for things to slide under there. It is always interesting to see what comes out from under our sofa. Tell me the most interesting or unusual thing you have found under your sofa.
Zone Mission: Move your living room furniture and clean under it.
Grocery Shopping and Errand Day – Take your list, pack snacks, and water bottles.
Afternoon Routine:
Grocery Shopping and Errand Day – Take your list, pack snacks, and water bottles.
Home:
- Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
- Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
- Swish and Swipe
- Start Your Laundry
- Decide on Dinner
- Check Your Calendar
- Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.
School: Are you doing a read aloud book for the whole family? If not, pick one out and read at lunch time or in the evening. It will bring a new dimension to your school day.
Afternoon Routine:
- Eat Lunch
- Clear off One Hot Spot
- Reboot the Laundry
- Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
- Drink Your Water
- Errand day: Make your plan for grocery shopping and errands. Pack water bottles and snacks for everyone. Pack up your library books that need to be turned in.
Family Fun: Plan a fun activity while you are out. I am in the habit of checking for free activities that are going on while we are out doing errands.
When you get home from doing errands, have everyone work together to unload and put away everything.
Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.)
- Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
- Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
- Put things at the Launch Pad that you will need first thing in the morning
- Shine Your Sink
- Clean Off a Hot Spot
- Go to Bed at Decent Hour
