Home Management Summit Day 2, afternoon
Gosh, it’s nearly tea time here! The day has flown! We have completed the skeleton of the chore system. We have basic cards with chores and duties, and a description of the duties. Each child will get his or her chore cards (laminated, of course) in the morning. With each chore satisfactorily completed he or she will earn one marble for his/her jar. It should take 2 weeks to fill the jar. Infractions will result in marbles being removed from the jar. When the jar is full, he/she will receive their reward. Our eldest will get a $20 pre-paid card, which she can keep earning on, up to $1000. Our youngest will get a ’special treat’ card, the five year old will get a $10 card, the 10 and 12 year olds will get $15 cards. These will be redeemable on outing day (Saturday), when they may purchase a book, CD, or something from the gift shop of a museum we might visit. They will be responsible for keeping track of the balance on their cards (with help from us, of course). When Jack turns 13 in May, he’ll move up to the pre-paid card as well.
We will also have a “Deeds” jar. I’m not sure I like that name… maybe you all have suggestions? At any rate, this jar will hold gold marbles that are given whenever someone does a kindness, or when they have been complimented in public for good behaviour. When that is full, we’ll have a lovely family treat like a movie out, dinner out, special shopping trip or outing.
Here are the master agenda and the daily agenda that Brian so skillfully designed. Pretty huh? They match my scrapbook papers! I love, love, love the way he laid out my daily agenda page with space for notes and doodling and that neato little section that lays out what each child should be doing for schoolwork! He’s promised to make some blank template ones, too.
I still have to write up procedure sheets for the various chores, etiquette sheets, and that menu rotation. I’m not sure how many weeks rotation I should plan… 6? 8? If I do only four, it’ll get boring fairly quickly and we LOVE variety here.
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I’ve added a handbell to my shopping list. Mrs. Heikkenen was my inspiration for getting one about 9 years ago. I love having a bell to call everyone together. We already have one mounted outdoors for summoning everyone in for meal times and for ringing the Angelus. This one will be rung at meal times and at bed time. Catherine suggested a wooden clapper for mornings. I did find these funny star-shaped ones. They come in sets of 12.
