As most schools are finished or finishing, we are gearing up for our summer school schedule. We school year round for a number of reasons:
- too much is lost over a 3 month hiatus – we simply continue on and skip all the review lessons in a new book
- it helps to keep a schedule and, thereby, a better attitude in the home
- we get to do things either special projects or unfinished work
- it keeps limitations on outside activities/playtime, which can cause overstimulation and irritable attitudes
During the regular school year (Sept-May) we school 3 weeks on, 1 week off. In the summer we school every other week. This still affords lots of fun play time but keeps us plodding along.
This summer we are working on:
cursive
math
America History
science
reading
How are you and your children spending your summer?
Linking to:
Back to School, Homeschool Journal, Big Family Friday
we are taking the summer off (possibly our last time) but are doing lots of crafty fun things.
today: face painting
I LOVED those face painting photos of your precious girls!!
Mechanics (tractor maintenance and repair),
Animal husbandry (chickens),
Woodworking (building a brooder, a chicken coop, and other fun projects),
Botany (veggie garden, sweet corn patch, commercial grain),
Principles of organic farming & certification,
Intro to accounting and business economics (farmer’s market).
Wow, we’re doing more school than I realized. No wonder I’m so tired.
Wow, Beth, you guys are doing a GREAT summer curriculum!! Real life learning…that’s what it’s all about! Yes, I’d be tired too!!
wow that is a great idea- I know when I used to homeschool the kids in Ghana- we had to pretty much do school all year due to books coming late- or we needed to take a month off to go to Singapore- so we pretty much kept an all year round going to school. I found it very helpful & I do believe the kids benefited from the discipline of not having just three months of no deadlines no boundaries etc etc
Wow, having books coming late would be a challenge. I get so impatient when I plan to start something and I have to go to Plan B because of book delays.