Yearly Scheduling?

[GLOWAcademy]

As everyone knows I only have 1 son, I was talking to him about HomeSchooling year round and I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips or like a rough draft of schooling, Like examples of How many days on and how many off, Right now we go M-Th Fri being Library day
DH thinks in summer do M-W-F or T-Th,

[Mrs. H.]

Do you plan on sending your dc to any summer lessons, like swimming, horseback riding, daycamp for Scouts, or sports camps? You obviously would schedule your school time around those days, cutting them out completely if needed.

4 school days per week means you need to do 45 weeks per year if your state is particular about you maintaining the 180 days. Depending on your state, a library day could be considered a school day or not.

That leaves you 7 weeks off throughout the year. Two for Christmas, one for Thanksgiving, one during the spring to enjoy the good weather and get the garden set up is our standard around here, and that leaves us three weeks to spread out over the school year, using however we choose, in case of illness or a family trip, or mental health days.

If my kids finish a subject for the year before our "official" school year is up, then they are done until the next term. This means that when my dd finishes math this year in June, she doesn't have to crack a math text until mid-August. Yes, I will slip some math in on her with puzzles, games, and cooking, but she can kiss Saxon goodbye for two whole months, and that's one less thing we have to schedule.

Science is pretty much done for us during the summer. We plant a garden (and fruit trees this year!), the kids catch bugs, we camp out and look at the stars, they check out books from the library about wildflowers and butterflies and frogs. No pre-set plan or curriculum, just get out there and play.

We don't do much formal grammar anyway, but I might ask the kids to tell or write me a story once a week, or they might write a letter to grandma. I do plan to spend this summer implementing art and music appreciation into our lessons, because we often drop subjects during the summer, so it seems like a good time to pick up something we have been neglecting.

Mainly I use the summer to finish stuff we got behind on through the year, and then to do fun stuff to keep up the dc's skills, like reading The Cat in the Hat in latin, or reading something history-related out loud.

[Closeacademy]

We do 4 days a week year round. We take 2 weeks off in May or June and 2 to 3 weeks off at Christmas.

Generally about every 3 to 6 weeks around a holiday that shortens the school week I schedule a fun school week where we drop our normal stuff and do lapbooks, games, whatever.

It has worked well for us and if we have to we can take off a week here and there as needed.:)

[GLOWAcademy]

Mrs H,
He rides Horses he has 2 here is one
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This summer we are going to try to go ontrip with our church
He also goes to a Hunting Camp for a day
Sports he got burned out on he was in soccer and baseball.
We do gardening in the summer, we mat omit that this season also
There is no camp around here close to us.
We do several road trips , this year we are going to widen our travel go go little futher like to tha cadilac ranch this year.
We usually go to Glenrose, they have a park to go to we go every year at least 3 times we can wade in the water and look at the Dino Tracks, we also always go to the science Museum
\ Hey wait lol we are schooling lol
He likes to work in books even over summer and i was thinking of letting him do as many pages as he wants when he wants :)
we also take to the fire hall every saturday well, dh takes him :)and there is a fort close to us we are going to take him to also.