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| What do you like to do during the summer? Do you school year round or do you take it easy during the summer months? |
| Posted by Jody on 04/21/2008 05:20 PM
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We school year round...so we can more flexible when my husband is having some free time...and have some fun time as a whole family...it works well for our family.
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| posted by Hayley on 04/21/2008 05:25 PM
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We've decided to take May and June off then start back to school during the hot months of summer...probably the monday after July 4.
Hopefully we'll be moving during our break. If so, I'm sure the boys will be spending some time at their Nana and Pawpaw's house while we get settled in. They might even get to visit their daddy's brother on his summer break (he's a PS teacher). What else we do depends on where we move. If we move close to my ILs, we'll also go to White Sands, the space museum, and the IMAX theater. If we move close to Carlsbad, we'll go to Carlsbad Caverns and we'll probably head to Roswell and go to dh's fav places from when he was a kid. OH...don't forget the zoo! |
| posted by Gidget on 04/21/2008 05:57 PM
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| I do school year around. My teachings with my son usually only takes a couple of hours so I don't see a big need for a summer break. During the summer we like to go swimming, traveling, visiting the museum, zoo, and playing at the park. |
| posted by lisa s on 04/21/2008 06:44 PM
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| We do things year round too. Actually, we do MORE in the summer because there is the whole outside world to explore! |
| posted by Indigo Ottyr on 04/21/2008 09:41 PM
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| I wouldn't say we take the whole summer off but we do slow down and do more stuff out doors and such. So I don't know if you would call that all year or what :P. This summer I have a art and music curriculum I might try and do with them. I find it's good for my boy's to get a little break from schooling during the summer but if they go too long of a break they get board and fight more. So we kind of gage it on how they are behaving too. |
| posted by Jody on 04/22/2008 04:44 PM
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| I wouldn't say we take the whole summer off but we do slow down and do more stuff out doors and such. So I don't know if you would call that all year or what :P. This summer I have a art and music curriculum I might try and do with them. I find it's good for my boy's to get a little break from schooling during the summer but if they go too long of a break they get board and fight more. So we kind of gage it on how they are behaving too. |
| posted by Jody on 04/22/2008 04:44 PM
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Well, in the past we have done nothing that looks schooly during the summer, but the learning continues nevertheless - you just can't stop it if you are alive and kicking!
This summer, so far unbeknownst to the kiddos, both will continue lessons in their math books. I want 16yo Daniel to finish the Algebra 1 book by the end of next year and since we are doing 2-3 days per lesson he's going to need the extra time. Rachel is not math minded and she is just now beginning to have consistent success with subtraction, mulitiplication and division and I want to work with the momentum instead of stopping and having to get her restarted in the fall.
Do I feel the slightest bit guilty? Nope, not one tiny bit! 30 minutes of math a day won't kill them. |
| posted by Kelly on 04/26/2008 06:17 PM
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| In the past, we have done both, but this schokl year & this coming school we have done the "traditional" school timeframe. It seems to work out the best for us, but we do learning things such as reading programs through the library & other activities. |
| posted by Cassandra on 04/27/2008 10:49 AM
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