No.692: Five Good Things // No.13

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1 // A FUN WAY TO TRACK YOUR HABITS

My big goal for September was to bring some margin into my life.  I have been laser focused on the expansion of our homestead and finally hit burnout stage in August.  Anyway, at the beginning of the month, I made a list of “fun” things that bring me peace/happiness.  I also found this free printable habit tracker to visually see what I’m choosing each day.  Loving the daily check-in so far!  (And you can tell from my tracker above that it’s still way too hot to have a big quilt on my lap, ha!)

2 // “TELL ME WHAT YOU REMEMBER” BOOKS

Inspired by Farmhouse Schoolhouse’s “Friday Exam” tradition, we are incorporating this in our school week too!  She mentioned in one of her blogposts that she was transitioning from butcher paper to blank notebooks and I went that direction too.  I bought these spiral-bound books and each Friday, I ask a handful of questions: “Tell me what you remember about Daniel Boone’s adventures with Finley.  Do you remember how a compass works from our geography studies?  Can you write down a Roman numeral cheat sheet?  What was your favorite part in our read aloud this week?”  We casually chitchat and the kids draw their favorites on one page of the spiral-bound book.  Sometimes they are very detailed, sometimes they choose to only make pencil sketches.  All of it combined shows me what things stuck and what I’ll need to review in the next week.

3 // A NEW-TO-US ART CURRICULUM

We are trying Art Tango for art education this year and loving it so far!  In an attempt to accommodate a range of students, I decided to go down the middle and follow the Third Grade Level.  It’s simple enough for my second grader to understand, but I can easily make it more advanced/detailed for my 6th grader.  And the curriculum is free!

4 // A MIRACLE TOILET RING CLEANER

We get these really awful hard water stains in our toilets and it’s always so embarrassing when we have people over.  I want to block the bathroom door and say, “We really are clean people, I swear!”  I have scrubbed and scrubbed using a variety of products and they barely made a dent.  Insert the Pumie toilet bowl ring remover!  It’s safe for porcelain, contains no added chemicals and can remove anything.  My toilets look brand new again!  I’ll be buying these things in bulk from now on.

5 // A PRINTABLE FOR LEGO FANS

A fun activity that my little boys have been enjoying: coloring this cute Lego minifigure printable in a variety of ways.  I love to see what they come up with.