What week of the homeschooling year are you on?

[Jean in Newcastle]

We are only on week 15 (and it is likely to overflow to next week because we aren't getting everything done this week). I'm pretty much resigned to homeschooling year-around this year. But I'm just wondering where everyone else is at.

[BusyBee]

We are on Week 25 only 11 more to go.

[Closeacademy]

Thanks for posting this. I just went and updated my homeschool tracker. we are well past the half-way mark for number of days needed for the year.

As for what week we are actually on--I don't know because we switched paths mid-year and we are on track for being where I want to be in August so I am happy with that.:)

[Hoggirl]

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[Plaid Dad]

We're finishing up week 29. We start in July, and we've had some breaks for holidays and vacation.

[Linda...inOwasso]

LOL, I probably shouldn't admit this, but I have no idea! My dd's were in private school last year until mid-May. I started homeschooling them the Monday after their school let out. The girls have done math & reading 5 x per week ever since (even during holiday weeks).

We must be getting close to 40 weeks (or whatever the standard *school year* is) because we only have a couple of weeks worth of curriculum left before we'll need to start the next grade.

Obviously, I'm not much of a planner! :) I always thought we would do some version of year round education (with a reduced schedule during vacations, busy times of the year, etc...) because I can't think of a reason not to.

[Narrow Gate Academy]

Also finishing week 25 tomorrow here!!

[8FillTheHeart]

We are only on week 15.

Wow, Jean, you make me feel way ahead of schedule!!! We are on week 19. (we are supposed to be on week 24) I was relieved when I opened up our lesson planners again this week to find out that one of the weeks we missed was actually scheduled as a week off. So, we are really only 22 days behind schedule. In my mind I thought we were 30. (but I also hadn't planned on starting back until next week, so that shortened up some right there)

It is really cute b/c the kids looked at me today and said they were really glad to be back to doing school! (The only time I usually here those words are during the first week of Aug when we start after summer vacation.) ;)

[Wendy in ME]

Just finishing up week 22 here. We started Sept. 1 and took the entire month of Dec. off. We are planning to take April off and finish up the last week of June.

[SandraDumas]

26 and ten more to go!!

[Lori C, Texas]

I have no idea! We have changed our curriculum so much this year that we seem to always be starting over!:) Oh well, next year will be better. At least that is what I am telling myself.:D

[Laura Corin]

We are only on week 15 (and it is likely to overflow to next week because we aren't getting everything done this week). I'm pretty much resigned to homeschooling year-around this year. But I'm just wondering where everyone else is at.

Laura

[one l michele]

the entire month of September to relocate to another state.

[cajun.classical]

We just completed Week 21 of 36 weeks. We took a month off for Christmas and we regularly take a week off every 6 weeks. This keeps me from burn-out. I need those mid-term breaks more than my dc.

[Christy B]

We are only on week 15 (and it is likely to overflow to next week because we aren't getting everything done this week). I'm pretty much resigned to homeschooling year-around this year. But I'm just wondering where everyone else is at.


I think we have about 15 weeks to go . . . and even at that, I don't think that will mean we ended up with 36 weeks. But, in 15 weeks we will be done with our books. If we work hard. And don't get sick. And don't get a migraine. Oh, and if none of our appliances break down. You get the idea. :rolleyes:

But I am really, really determined to finish the work for those weeks. Too many times we have given up short of the finish line, and I don't want to do that again. Plus, I *really* want the month of June off.

Hang in there, you're not alone. Slow and steady wins the race, right?

[magistramom]

25 of 37 (August - May, 4 days per week, time off around holidays)

[momtolgd]

We are finishing week 19, and have 19 to go...we are halfway there. We will take the week after easter off, the week of memorial day off, and will end mid July. Then we start up again after Labor Day.

[Zee]

Week 25 here. :)

[KarenC]

and we start a new year in July. We are finishing up week 31.

Karen

[Lenora in MD]

We just finished week 23 of 36

[Jenny in Florida]

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[Julie in GA]

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[txchick]

We are always doing THIS week. If I kept track of the weeks..I'd get depressed. Press on...dont look back.:D

[SnowWhite]

Week 24 of 36 here.

[Jennefer@SSA]

week 24! Wahoooo!!!! :)

[St. Theophan Academy]

without looking, we are around week 23 - I know we hit the half point at Christmas, but have had a few weeks off at the start of the year. Why is Jan-Feb so hard to get back into the excitement and swing of things??? Anne Marie

[Beth in Central TX]

I posted this on the general board too, but we are on week #22 out of 36 weeks.

[Alana in Canada]

Well, Jean, if you hadn't started this by saying "15" weeks, I would have closed the thread--but, as it happens, I can make you feel good--we're officially in week 7 of a 42 week year. 1/6th of the way there!:D

[JWSJ]

We're on this week...

[Elinor Everywhere]

I'm not sure how many weeks we did, but this week we just finished 4th & 3rd grade for my dd and ds respectively.

We're taking March off, and then starting the new year in April. I'm already looking forward to it--I love new curriculum! :p

[Trivium Academy]

We switched to TOG in January so that really extended our year but I think it'll be fine since we're doing a 9 week on/ 1 week off schedule with a few two week breaks in June and August.

[my2kidsmom]

We are always doing THIS week. If I kept track of the weeks..I'd get depressed. Press on...dont look back.:D

that's what I say :p

[Lori D.]

Similar to Wendy; finishing week 23 out of 36 -- but we'll go till June 12, as we're taking 3 weeks off in April for a big trip thru the canyonlands and the Pacific NW!

[Mama Lynx]

No idea. None.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Thanks so much for the input. I'm not trying to "catch up" to all of you - some of you are so far ahead of me I couldn't! But it helped to give me a sense of where we were in the year. I've decided that even if it means a little bit of work on the weekend (probably about an hour's worth only) - we will make the extra effort to get done with this week's work. We are starting to see some signs of spring and I know "spring fever" will only get worse the later in the year it gets!

[Alana in Canada]

I'll keep you company in spirit Jean. Those warmer days are getting harder and harder to resist--and Spring isn't even really here yet. We've just had a warm spell with temps around 0C for the past few days. We actually opened a window today! Hooray.

But already, I hate calling the kids back in from outside on their break.

[Kristiana]

Officially my calendar says this is week 22 out of how many, I don't really know. We should finish up our current curriculum about the 2nd week in June, but will do light work through the summer so I don't know that it really matters where we're at now.

[DawnUK]

We are only on week 17! I aimed to start our school year on Sept. 1st, but the weather was so nice for four weeks in a row, that I kept pushing our start date back to the next week, and to the next week, etc! It gets so dark and loomy here in England in the winter, that I just couldn't bring myself to not take advantage of the beautiful weather. We also take four weeks off at Christmas. That's one of the beauties of homeschooling, though, you can be flexible. We'll probably school well into the summer, and we do double up sometimes, but I'm not worried. We'll finish.
--Dawn

[prairiegirl]

I don't have a clue. I don't have to keep track so I don't. We just keep plugging away.

Julia
mom of 3 (8,7,5)

[GreenKitty]

11wks or 54 days.

[Jackie in AR]

No idea. None.


Same here. We just school until we get finished with what we want to do for a particular year (season). Sometimes we school in summer; sometimes we don't. We're not required to keep up with "days" or "weeks" so we don't.

[Shari]

Week 34 here. We're year-rounders looking to finish up by the end of March. :D

[Pata]

We are finishing Week 23 today, that means 13 more weeks.

[TCoppock]

We started different subjects at different times in the year so I don't really know where that leaves us. We are on our second Spelling and Math book and almost completed our English but are no where close to finishing our History or Science. I plan to school year round and take breaks throughout the year when they best fit our family. Summer is just too hot in South FL to really enjoy much of anything.

[siloam]

We are only on week 15 (and it is likely to overflow to next week because we aren't getting everything done this week). I'm pretty much resigned to homeschooling year-around this year. But I'm just wondering where everyone else is at.

Ok I am going to have fun with this one:

Tapestry of Grace year 3: Week 6
Right Start Math...well I am in 4 different places, starting a book with the oldest, 3/4 of the way through B with the 8yo, 1/3 of the way through B with 6yo and 1/4 of the way through A with ds 5.
Science: Just finished one program yesterday, starting a new today.
Bible: 10yo will be done by summer, 8yo will be done by fall, 6yo will start a new Bible before summer and 5yo will start a new one mid-summer.
LA: 6yo will start a new program in a couple of months, 8yo is on about week 7, 9yo will start her new program in a couple of days.

I hs year around, can you tell? :D

Heather

[deeinfl]

and my 7th grader and 1rst grader are almost done with all of their curriculum. This is a first for us!

My highschooler, well...that's another story! 8 more weeks to go!!! Yahoo! One month off!!!

[Kelli in TN]

We are required to do 180 days of school per year. So, before Christmas I log onto my umbrella school's website and starting in August I record 90 days. If I am feeling particularly lazy, I may just click every day until I get to 90, even weekends! In June I do the same thing again.

I am very loose with record keeping, since we homeschool year round I know we get enough days in.

So, short answer, I haven't a clue.:)

[Deb in NZ]

Our school year runs Feb-Dec. 39 weeks to go...

[gardenschooler]

I have no idea. We started early, but went at a snail's pace. All I know is we are finishing May 30th no matter what!

[LanaTron]

Next week will be 17 for us. But I planned on going year-round, with 4 9-week terms (roughly two months on, one month off). After week 18, we'll take a month break, then begin again in April.

[Rhonda in WA]

next week!
But we go year round also. So we are alway doing school!

[elegantlion]

We are week 17. We've also done about 3 weeks that were "off schedule". We are probably going to get through week 30 before we go into our summer schedule.

[Laurie in VA]

We are supposed to be on week 20. But we are actually on:

Bible - wk 17
Spelling - wk 21
Penmanship - wk 20
Grammar - wk 20
Math - not sure, as we just "do the next thing", but we are several weeks behind where I wanted to be at this point
Latin - wk 15
History - wk 14
Science - wk 8
Art - wk 4
Music - wk 4I am actually very frustrated with myself. I don't know why I am not doing a better job of keeping us on track but at least I am making sure that we are doing the 3 Rs...

[CalicoKat]

and that's true only for Math, Reading, and Writing.

But with History & Science we're at week 7 in the curriculum (MFW Adv.) and we just started SOTW vol. 3 (chap. 3) :)

My plan is to make these up during the summer months.

Bible, Art, Foreign Lang. -- hmm . . . nothing formal has been accomplished this year. It's all been informal family catch-as-catch can.

[momofkhm]

We started in early July and will finish in mid April.

[nukeswife]

I don't keep track of weeks specifically just days which I only know because we use a 100 chart to help my youngers with their counting skills LOL

We had illness in Sept (missed last 2 weeks) moved to another state in Oct (took off the whole month we're military so I build this into our schedule the best we can) Nov we were still getting settled so we missed most of it. Dec we took off half of for the holidays. We just took this last week off because my parents were coming to visit for the week and we'd be going strong since Jan 2nd. We'll finish our year by the end of May and just pick up anything we haven't finished the beginning of next year. As long as my kids pass their Cat-E's so the state of VA is happy I'm happy. I'm sure they are more than prepared to take them now but we'll wait another month or so before we take them.

[Riverfront Headmistress]

I have my kids all over the place.

4th grader

Math: 11 weeks left
Grammar: 4 weeks left
Spelling: 14 weeks left
History: 10 weeks

1st Grader

Math: Complete! We have moved onto 2nd grade
Grammar: 14 weeks left

[ThelmaLou]

It's all over the map. My goal is to do school August through May. We're ahead of schedule for grammar, right on schedule for math, and only about half-way through for history. We use Veritas, and we're only on card 15. Yikes! Looks like if we finish grammar early, we'll do double-time on history.