Sarah's Routine Board

So Mary had this idea a while ago to make a chore board, which we decided to call "Sarah's Routine Board" so that she doesn't view these things as chores. They consist of morning and evening routines that Sarah does and she's really excited about it right now. There are five things for each time. Her morning routine (pictured below, with the evening ones on the back) consists of making her bed, eating breakfast, getting dressed, brushing teeth, and doing her hair. Her evening routine consists of cleaning up any messes she made, reading the Book of Mormon, putting on jammies, brushing her teeth, and picking out her clothes for the next day. She's been doing this for a few days now and it has been with great anticipation that she does it each night and morning. Tonight while we were eating dinner she said, with great excitement "after dinner, in a little bit, I get to do my routine board!" As Sarah shows her excitement its had a good effect on Nathan as he gets more geared up for bedtime and is more involved in clean-up and everthing, which is a nice side-effect. Part of our long-standing nightly routine is to scratch her back while we read her Book of Mormon to her. It was funny cuz tonight I told her it would be easier for me to scratch her back if she was wearing jammies because her dress made it somewhat difficult. She was emphatic that she hadn't gotten to that point in her routine yet and that even though the back-scratching wouldn't be as successful, she wasn't going to go out of order. Pretty cute! Hopefully her excitement lasts, but we'll enjoy it for as long as it does.



So this is how it would look before Sarah started it in the evening. She would flip over the first one to see what the first thing she needs to do for the evening is and then put it on the nail below. As she completes each one she flips the next card with a picture of what she needs to do next. She really loves this thing and it was a great idea by Mary! Good job Sarah!