Incorporating

Incorporate:  verb
1.  to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole; to blend or combine thoroughly.

2.  to form or cause to form a united whole or mass; merge or blend


In the balance between schooling at home and teaching a child life and character skills, I have realized the need to incorporate things into our homeschool schedule that will accomplish those items.  When looking at the above definintion I am reminded that by incorporating with a sense of purpose we can accomplish lots of things into our day and not be so disjoined in our process.

We have decided that as part of PW's phys. ed. we will incorporate horseback riding lessons.  Incorporating these lessons also will instill the life skills of responsibility and discipline.  Each week at the lesson we must arrive early so that the horse gets groomed before the lesson, PW learns to hook up all the gear onto the horse in order to ride, and after the lesson he must help unsaddle the horse and get him back to the stable. 
As I begin to add things to PW's list I will begin to see the long term benefits and weigh out our activities based on they will fit into the whole.