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It’s a bit hard to believe that we’re already partly through July! Summer seems to be flying by, especially knowing we’ll be starting back with our full school year in early August. Our summer homeschool plans? Well, here’s a peek at how we’ve been doing there.
Somehow I always envision summer as being this relaxed and laid back time (which it has been!!), but there is always so much to do and travel to visit family inevitably makes it feel so much fuller. Our family loves camping too, so with weekends spent away from home too – well, it’s just a full summer!
How We’re Doing…
For the most part, we’ve been sticking to the basics quite well.
- Reading – two of the kids have been working on their reading out loud skils (the boys) and the girls have been little reading fiends. It’s great to see them toting a book along to the pool or express that they haven’t had enough time to read lately! We’ve also been enjoying some read aloud time too, sometimes via audio books. Trips to the library = heaven. Our most recent audio book was Sky Jumpers and we are currently listening to Igraine the Brave.
- Math – we need to do a better job on reviewing math facts, but everyone has wrapped up their full lessons and is ready for the new year!
- Science – all of our lessons are done and it’s just been fun exploring outside!
- PE – I feel like we have water coming out our ears (literally). We’ve been at the pool a LOT with swim team and we still have a few more meets to wrap up. For those of you that participate in sports year round – wow. This block of time in the summer always makes me wonder how in the world we would get anything done! We are all enjoying the poolside though!
- Rest – this is one area that tends to make me feel guilty, but I have personally really been trying to soak in all that I can get! Everyone in the house has done a lot of reading, especially mom. And resting by the pool. Sitting still is hard for me, and while I do feel at times that there is so much that needs to be done – well, rest is equally important too!
Planning for the Upcoming Year
Looking ahead to August, the upcoming year will be busier with Laurianna starting some high school classes and one of our co-ops shifting to a weekly setting for classes she’ll be working on in a group setting. At the moment I am feeling rather unprepared for the upcoming year. Other than knowing what we are using for our studies, there has been ZERO planning done on my end.
ZERO, people. The irony that one of my topics at Teach Them Diligently was about planning – that hasn’t escaped me (grins).
Truthfully, relaxing has been nice. Very nice.
The planner part of my brain (which is about 95%) is sounding alerts and warnings that the end is near.
But, there is a wee part of my brain that is reminding me to breathe and just take it one day at a time. (Can someone hand me a paper bag, please?). And so I breathe in – and breathe out.
The next few weeks involve more travel, but also time spent reorganizing our school room for the upcoming year and getting an overall game plan in place. Since there is plenty of car time coming up, that will be a time for me to put the overall framework of our year in place (figure out how many lessons/weeks, etc… and what needs to be done when).
So….how are your summer school plans going? And have YOU started planning for next year yet?
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Our summer has been busier than I expected, but we are doing lots of reading and exploring. This past week I started panicking about how unplanned I am for this next school year! =0 So I did start some planning this weekend. I have all my curriculum so that’s a plus! =)
Huge plus!! I have piles made, just need to sort it all out and get the planning in motion!
I am sorry I missed you speaking! I went to Dallas! :/ Are you going to be speaking again next year? As for planning: I haven’t done a thing. I’ve poured over catalogs a time or dozen, but that’s the extent of my “planning” so far. I just can’t commit. :P
Oh, I am just like you! Everything I see seems like the next best thing for our family! I can’t seem to commit either! Decisions decisions!
Jessica – at this point I am definitely planning to speak with TTD next year! Not certain of the exact locations, but I’ll let you all know as soon as I do! :) It would be great to meet you!
I’ve really tried to take full advantage of the summer break too! We’ll be back in the full swing of things soon enough, and I don’t want to miss that time of relaxation. Don’t feel guilty! Just enjoy the summer and know you’ll get that planning done :)
Sally
http://www.thehealthyhappywoman.com
I thought we were going to try and do regular homeschool days (a little shorter and easier) this summer, but vacations and play time have gotten in the way. I threw the plans out the window so they would not be hanging over me every day and took the month of June off! Today was our first official day so I can get ahead of the game and take more days off during the year. I am still not 100% sure what curriculum we are going to use, so for now, we are just using what we have…finishing up some from last year, and going with the flow.
Jolanthe, I just blogged about this very same topic. We have been so busy this summer that I have felt that we have not been able to slow down and enjoy it!
Jolanthe, I just blogged about this subject this week. I also feel like the summer has flown by and it has been way too busy. I have taken off the month of July and posted goals just for me. Not one school related goal. I have been planning but I’m also fitting in fun things just for me!
That has been a HUGE thing for me to remember. I really need to relax too! :) Enjoy the fun things you have planned!!
This is our first summer with two children and we are MUCH busier than I ever thought we would be! So our pre-k start date has been pushed to August so I can have plenty of time this summer to relax and enjoy both babies. Plus – it gives me an extra month or so to get to IKEA to get some more things we need to organize our homeschool room. Table – check! Chairs – nope! It’ll be bad for my back to do all of pre-k on the floor! ;)
I need to get chairs at IKEA too! I picked up the seats, but they were out of the bases – oops!! Need to remember that!
We school year round. This allwos me to be more relaxed and not stress about taking half/whole days off because of doctor appointments or field trips. I give myself 52 weeks to complete 36 weeks of curriculum.