About 6 weeks. I homeschool my niece and we had to take an extra week off because she lost her father last month. I’m doing my best to stick to our original schedule. I just try to find creative ways to catch up and cover certain material.
Our school year is kicking into high gear right now. We school year round and take breaks whenever we need to or want to. In the last 12 months, we have taken off at total of 8 weeks. It works for us!
4 more weeks with our online public charter school that we have been with for 3 years! Then we are officially on our own! It will be our first time homeschooling completely on our own. We are so ready to be out from under that charter school!
Yes! My kids are no where near done. I took 4 college classes this fall so my kids got out on the back burner and now that the snow finally melted we don't want to be in the house 😅 it will all get done eventually over the summer!
I love to just take a break when times are stressful. This next school year we will do six weeks on and one or two weeks to just rejuvenate and do relaxed homeschooling. I get burned out. Our children get burned out. We don't want to be so overwhelmed. It will wreak havoc on our children and me. They won't want to do school. It will be like pulling teeth to get them to do any kind of educational materials. In our family we need much needed breaks. Break don't mean doing absolutely no school work. It just means more of the fun school work such as science/history projects, art, computer curriculum (IXL, prodigy Math, etc) and extracurricular activities (cooking, coding, typing, and/or sewing plus much more). I'm so glad you talked about this topic. Homeschooling is supposed to be flexible. We will homeschool September 5th-July 26th with August being our month off. But... This is not set in stone. We are making room for change if needed.😊 Thanks!
We just started homeschooling this year. Thing is I’m finishing a degree myself. I have fully embraced taking breaks as needed, when needed. As I’m taking finals and finishing huge projects my kids are doing the bare minimum and I’m not nearly as stressed as I usually am this time of year. A huge perk is my kids don’t have to do testing so I can evaluate them when it’s more convenient vs state tests stressing us all out.
Thank you! My health crashed right after Easter. We have two subjects left that we need to finish but we are taking two weeks off then we will jump back in.
This past year was my first year homeschooling and we were doing great on schedule, until I started trying a new schedule 😳😆 Well, then I got foot surgery scheduled and had to just do the core stuff (they just finished 2nd grade). I just started searching RUclips for homeschool videos and found you, love your videos!
We count trips,outings as school…then the sun comes out and we go play but come May this mama hits the pool and rides bikes!! When books are finished, our days are shorter and in 2 weeks we go play and then self learn over the summer and that gives me ideas for electives😊
YES! Sometimes breaks aren't planned! We're wrapping up our 8th year, and this is so true! Sometimes life throws unexpected things at us, and it requires a pivot and adjustment period!
Am happy to hear that, am a kind of mom that don't like taking break because I feel if I get behind I will be stressed but, I have notice that I have been stressed just for trying to finished everything on time.❤❤❤
Yep take a break whenever. We do all our books start to finish. I can take a few months to a year. Our state has no requirements or testing. We have some worksheets and books we never finished. I slip them in. Breaks are needed.
@@mandy-maltz we are on a week vacation now. It was requested by my student. Ok. Go play! I had it scheduled in my head for next month. Go with the flow!! 🥰. We are a grade ahead and it’s getting intense now. I need a break as well 🫠.
Definitely need breaks!!! We are year round so we've got planned breaks. We're actually off for 2 weeks starting next week. Our early releases were unplanned as we've gone along but it all works out. We're not done until the first week of July. At the end of May I signed them up for state testing even though our state doesn't require it but it's more for me than it is for them 😁
We still HAD 9 weeks of school a few days ago. Now we have 7 1/2 weeks because more important things came up in the middle of June 😂 I know that we have done plenty of days and what we do in the summer is also learning :)
We are homeschooling through June ...maybe longer. My son has a chronic illness and this year he has missed a lot of days. I start feeling the stress towards the end of the school year...looking at how behind we are...do we stop and finish these textbooks next school year?...do we just do what we can and go ahead and move up in curriculum next year? I feel like if we keep going till we finish this curriculum, we will never "catch-up". My son is in high school so it is more confusing to me now...in the past we would just use the same curriculum the next year til it was completed, but now we are dealing with credits! ugh ..it hurts my brain. As I am typing this my son is asleep on the couch. He did about 3 subjects and is out.
I think it's really up to you. If you want a fresh start, go with it. As long as it's not something that builds upon mastery of the previous book, you should be fine.
How much of the school year do you have left?
About 6 weeks. I homeschool my niece and we had to take an extra week off because she lost her father last month. I’m doing my best to stick to our original schedule. I just try to find creative ways to catch up and cover certain material.
Our school year is kicking into high gear right now. We school year round and take breaks whenever we need to or want to. In the last 12 months, we have taken off at total of 8 weeks. It works for us!
4 more weeks with our online public charter school that we have been with for 3 years! Then we are officially on our own! It will be our first time homeschooling completely on our own. We are so ready to be out from under that charter school!
The hardest part is beginning! You can do this, best decision ❤️
So exciting! You've got this!! 😉
Important reminder to make homeschooling work for you! Your schedule/routine/method doesn’t have to match anyone else’s 😊👏🏻
The best thing about homeschool is the freedom to do what we want , when we want to! It’s the flexibility that works for our family 😊❤
Yes! My kids are no where near done. I took 4 college classes this fall so my kids got out on the back burner and now that the snow finally melted we don't want to be in the house 😅 it will all get done eventually over the summer!
I love to just take a break when times are stressful. This next school year we will do six weeks on and one or two weeks to just rejuvenate and do relaxed homeschooling. I get burned out. Our children get burned out. We don't want to be so overwhelmed. It will wreak havoc on our children and me. They won't want to do school. It will be like pulling teeth to get them to do any kind of educational materials. In our family we need much needed breaks. Break don't mean doing absolutely no school work. It just means more of the fun school work such as science/history projects, art, computer curriculum (IXL, prodigy Math, etc) and extracurricular activities (cooking, coding, typing, and/or sewing plus much more). I'm so glad you talked about this topic. Homeschooling is supposed to be flexible. We will homeschool September 5th-July 26th with August being our month off. But... This is not set in stone. We are making room for change if needed.😊
Thanks!
We just started homeschooling this year. Thing is I’m finishing a degree myself. I have fully embraced taking breaks as needed, when needed. As I’m taking finals and finishing huge projects my kids are doing the bare minimum and I’m not nearly as stressed as I usually am this time of year. A huge perk is my kids don’t have to do testing so I can evaluate them when it’s more convenient vs state tests stressing us all out.
Thank you! My health crashed right after Easter. We have two subjects left that we need to finish but we are taking two weeks off then we will jump back in.
This past year was my first year homeschooling and we were doing great on schedule, until I started trying a new schedule 😳😆 Well, then I got foot surgery scheduled and had to just do the core stuff (they just finished 2nd grade). I just started searching RUclips for homeschool videos and found you, love your videos!
We count trips,outings as school…then the sun comes out and we go play but come May this mama hits the pool and rides bikes!! When books are finished, our days are shorter and in 2 weeks we go play and then self learn over the summer and that gives me ideas for electives😊
YES! Sometimes breaks aren't planned! We're wrapping up our 8th year, and this is so true! Sometimes life throws unexpected things at us, and it requires a pivot and adjustment period!
4 more weeks for us! Indeed, each family needs to do what works best for them 🙂👍👍
Most of my homeschool years have been like that.
Yes!!
Am happy to hear that, am a kind of mom that don't like taking break because I feel if I get behind I will be stressed but, I have notice that I have been stressed just for trying to finished everything on time.❤❤❤
That's me as well. I just hit a wall and had to do it.
Yep take a break whenever. We do all our books start to finish. I can take a few months to a year. Our state has no requirements or testing. We have some worksheets and books we never finished. I slip them in. Breaks are needed.
They are very much needed!
@@mandy-maltz we are on a week vacation now. It was requested by my student. Ok. Go play! I had it scheduled in my head for next month. Go with the flow!! 🥰. We are a grade ahead and it’s getting intense now. I need a break as well 🫠.
3 weeks left! WOOHOOOO!
Definitely need breaks!!! We are year round so we've got planned breaks. We're actually off for 2 weeks starting next week. Our early releases were unplanned as we've gone along but it all works out. We're not done until the first week of July. At the end of May I signed them up for state testing even though our state doesn't require it but it's more for me than it is for them 😁
We still HAD 9 weeks of school a few days ago. Now we have 7 1/2 weeks because more important things came up in the middle of June 😂 I know that we have done plenty of days and what we do in the summer is also learning :)
All of life is learning. I think you're just fine!
That's us too. 8 weeks here😅
Friday is our last day!
This Friday is our last official day!!!!🎉 We do however continue math a few days a week all summer.
We are homeschooling through June ...maybe longer. My son has a chronic illness and this year he has missed a lot of days. I start feeling the stress towards the end of the school year...looking at how behind we are...do we stop and finish these textbooks next school year?...do we just do what we can and go ahead and move up in curriculum next year? I feel like if we keep going till we finish this curriculum, we will never "catch-up". My son is in high school so it is more confusing to me now...in the past we would just use the same curriculum the next year til it was completed, but now we are dealing with credits! ugh ..it hurts my brain. As I am typing this my son is asleep on the couch. He did about 3 subjects and is out.
I think it's really up to you. If you want a fresh start, go with it. As long as it's not something that builds upon mastery of the previous book, you should be fine.