Study, Study, Study, Full Speed Ahead!
Now that the visitors have headed home and we are getting back into our regular routine it is time to hit the books hard! We have taken a two week break for Thanksgiving and the break is now officially over! Starting tomorrow school is back in full swing! Second quarter is starting late but we will work hard and push through. Study, study, study, full speed ahead! We will see how long we last until we run out of steam! Hopefully, we can make it until the middle of December when we will break again for Christmas and a birthday. This time of year is always difficult for us. The Christmas season is always a busy time, but even more so for us than for many others, since hubby is a pastor. It is his busy work time. This year though he will have a little bit of a break for a change. We also have a child with a birthday on the 26th, which we try very hard to make special for her so she does not feel like her birthday is lost amidst all the Christmas festivities. How are all you homeschoolers out there planning to handle school schedules during the Christmas holiday?
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November 28th, 2007 at 1:28 am
Our younger son’s birthday is December 21 ~ we’ve always tried very hard to separate his birthday from Christmas, especially in the minds of the grandparents. They seem to want to lump them both together…..
We have 3 more weeks of school before we start our Christmas break. When our boys were little, we would spend November and December doing unit studies ~ Thanksgiving and the birth of Christ being the two central themes. Doing the unit studies helped us to keep going with school. They also seemed to blend things together so there wasn’t this huge break between November and January.
Now that ours are both in high school, we just keep going full steam ahead as usual. We take 3 or 4 days off for Thanksgiving, and usually from about December 20 thru the first week of January off for Christmas break. The boys enjoy their time off, but I’m not sure this plan would have worked with them when they were younger. I loved doing the unit studies ~ it kept us focused, and threw in a little bit of a different approach to “school” throughout the holidays.
Blessings,
Trish
November 28th, 2007 at 2:26 am
The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas is always hard for us. I do schedule school and for now we are going strong. However, the load will lessen around the 19th. We’ll still school until the week before Christmas, but will take a two week break after. Trying to get things done, and getting the kids to focus can be hard. Sometimes we have to throw the towel in and just play…
Valerie
November 28th, 2007 at 7:25 am
I have two with birthdays during this time…one falls on Thanksgiving frequently. I want to make them feel special too. As far as homeschooling breaks…I deal with it by not telling the kids in advance what days we are going to be “on break”. Then they are just thinking about doing school, not about the break coming up!
November 28th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
We have three birthdays that last two weeks of December and 1st part of January. It is hard not to feel leftout then. On the other hand, my family didn’t celebrate birthdays and so we have kind of fallen into that trap a bit. We do a cake and present but we don’t always make a big hoopla out of each one.
Our schedule is not a normal school routine anyway so breaks for certain times don’t really matter to me. We had such a hard time the first few weeks with “that’s not what my teacher did” that I completely moved our schooling into an almost unschooling mode so that I could un-brainwash them