3.5 Time Outs: No Time Out

Thanks once again to our host Larry D. at Acts of the Apostasy, who has earned your sympathy this week..

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People have stopped asking when we’ll be done with school. The answer is: Never.

At the beginning of the school year, it sounds great when you say, “We’ll take breaks during the year, but it means we’ll have to go longer into the summer. ”  This is, after all, one of our big reasons for homeschooling.  The weather is better September through May.  But come mid-May, even people in my own home start saying, “We’re almost finished with school for the year, right?”

No.  We are not.

Calendar says we’ll finish at the end of June, giving us six weeks break before starting back, which is all I could stand anyway.  At the beginning of Q4 I gave two big kids a checklist of everything they needed to finish, and specified that although they had to do Math and Grammar every day, they could do the other subjects in whatever order they liked, but they were chained to the desk until everything was done.

This did not cause fairies to come replace my children with super-diligent, homework-completing robots.

2.

So I predict we’ll be done with almost everything by early July, and certain sore topics by . . . much later.  SOME children might be sitting NEXT TO the pool doing homework, while other children swim IN the pool.  I’m not shouting.  I am not shouting. I. AM. NOT. SHOUTING.

Totally happy homeschool mom here.  Oh yes.  No irony whatsoever when my 10-year-old armchair physician says, “I think we all have ADD.”

Yeah.  Just maybe.

But it really is easier to do school after all the school-year activities have ended.  Much easier.

 

3.

Why is it I do all my school planning on a day after a very productive school day?  Causing me to write up plans I know will overwhelm us.  It’s like packing.  I should put everything in the box, leave it for a week, and then come back and take out half.

3.5

Speaking of ADD . . . we’re getting a new species of pets.  Come mid-July, we’ll have to have built housing for . . .

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Well that’s all for today. I’m having one of those, “Is it really Tuesday? ^&*%$” days.  Return to substantial topics coming . . . oh I don’t know when.

Tuesday is Link Day for all topics, shouting and fake curse words not necessary.  Help yourself if you are so inclined.   Post as many as you want, but only one per comment or the spam dragon will eat you up and I’ll never even know.  Have a great week!