Focusing and Organizing

I was exhausted when I returned home from work today. I was with my students the entire time I was working, but they didn't have many questions for me.

I was glad for that because I had to plan an entire semester's worth of Language Arts for a student. It was kind of fun to plan and organize the summer for him around my schedule and our missions trip week and such. I think it is doable and would be equal to the amount of work I would assign for a semester.

Once I got started it was easy to focus. It was hard to get started. I spent about two hours in the morning dreaming about what we could spend money on to make my teaching beter. After lunch I started thinking about what I would like to teach taking into account the student's interests.

I was dealing with a boy so I didn't want to read Pride and Prejudice. I settled on A Child of the King by Bill Bright and The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood. I decided to work on grammar after I return from my summer vacation. The vocabulary for the first book will be self-generated while I am gone and then I'll direct it later on. Writing assignments will work on organizing thoughts.

All of my ideas came together when I went for a bathroom break and I realized that I just needed to start. I started from the end because I knew exactly how I wanted to do that but not the beginning as much. It worked and the plan is done...the details are left. I need to get the student set up tomorrow so he can start working on these assignments on his own while I'm gone.