This Week’s Goals – January 21-27
Family Goals
- Stick to the Month of Nothing experiment and blog about it
- Home Educating
- Walk/hike as a family 3 x
- Finish The Little Princess and start and finish the BFG
Have a family games night- Read the Bible 2x as a family
- Have a baking day
- Do OT activities daily with the children daily
- Practice physio with my daughter daily
Start our new home educating routine of academics in the am and nature/art/reading/writing in the afternoonsTake the children on a field tripHave two family writing sessionsGo to the libraryTake the children to Church
Personal Goals
- Clean out office hub
- Clean out my childhood toys
- Drink a glass of water every morning and every evening
Go swimming- Finish reading my book club book
- Attend my book group
Cancel daughter’s PT this week- Organize front closet
Pay bills- Clean car (vacuume)
- Clean boot of car
Goals for my daughter
- Finish her Road To Avonlea novel (Conversions), start and complete another chapter book
- Complete a Q & A about each book she reads this week
- Read an article in the paper, answer questions about it and present it to the family
- Finish 20 sheets of kumon daily
- Make sure she knows how to spell all the days of the week and every colour {she’s about 90% there, but we need some more time to work on it}
- Practice typing 5 x
- Work on Canada’s provinces/territories, capital cities, as well as continents every day
- Begin learning about the government – election process, who is the Prime Minister, who is the mayor of our city etc.
- Learn 10 General knowledge facts
- Write 25 sentences
- Practice her harp every day
Nouns and verbs test- Daily descriptive words activity
- Practice fractions daily (whole, half, quarters)
- Learn what a $5, $10 and $20 bill are
- Daily: study what primary, secondary and tertiary colours are
- Paint a picture
- Continue learning the Lord’s prayer
Goals for my son
- Read 12 books
- Nouns and verbs activity daily
- Write 25 sentences
- 20 pages of kumon daily
- Practice rhyming words daily
- Be able to tell me 5 facts about Canada
- Daily descriptive words activity
- Learn 5 general knowledge facts
- Daily order biggest to smallest activity
Complete All About Me activity- Typing program 5x this week
- Learn where Ontario and Toronto is on a map of Canada
- Learn how to spell all the colours
- Learn what a $5, $10 and $20 bill are
- Paint a picture
- Continue learning the Lord’s prayer
Giving Goals
- Continue sponsoring a child through Butterfly Children’s Hospices
Bake bread for someone- Make and deliver soup
Blogging Goals
- Reply to comments/questions/emails
- Write part 3 and 4 of 100 ways to save money on food
- Write 52 weeks of happiness post
- Write new feature: Memories from this week
Update weekly goals
Financial Goals
- Track ALL spending
- Four no-spending days per week
- Spend no more than $50 this week on food and household items
- Update spending on side of blog
What are you doing this week?
I think your weekly lists of goals is a great idea, they may look long but somethings take only a few moments, such as a phone call or drinking a glass of water. This week is my week to stay indoors (it’s really cold here) and get caught up on some things I’ve started and need to get finished.
It works for me! I find because there is a range of things there, I can use my time more wisely and yes, some of them are things which take only a moment or two! Enjoy your indoor week.
I think you will look back on this month and realise you have achieved a lot.
I think you are very very right!
You are such an inspiration to me. My life is very different from yours but I find so much that I can use. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and joy with us.
Thanks, Karen. I really am a very regular Jane. Nothing fancy, nothing inspirational but if you get something from it, I’m so pleased.