I suppose I could blame it on my twin sister. She's the one who had the baby in April. My children and I tried very hard to finish our school before her baby was born in April, but it just didn't happen. My older two children (ages 14 and 13) are at a point where their school work just takes more time than it did when they were younger. We weren't able to get our work done before Melissa's baby was born, and then we took two weeks off to help her with the baby once he arrived.
We could also blame it on "spring fever." Once we did get back to school after baby Silas was born, it just seemed that we all had a terrible time doing our work instead of enjoying the wonderful spring weather outside! In fact, I may have posted about Mary Grace and me taking our school work outside to do many days during that beautiful weather.
I suppose, though, that instead of blaming it on anybody, we should just take responsibility for it ourselves! It's not so bad to have a little bit of work to do over the summer anyway. I have noticed that, even though they won't admit it, my kids actually enjoy having a little bit of structure in their days even over the summer. I wouldn't want to have a lot of work to do, but a little bit isn't so bad.
I hope all of you are enjoying the beginning of your summer whether you homeschool or whether your kids go to school somewhere. We have already started going swimming and have made homemade ice cream twice! Those are some of our favorite summertime activities. I'd love to hear from some of you about your favorite summertime activities. Have a great summer!
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I'm considering our school year done, though Gracie needs to finish reading her science book (we'll read it this summer) and Ashley needs to finish her research paper (so we can include it in her portfolio).
ReplyDeleteYes, Heidi, we could really consider our school year done too. It sounds like we're doing about the same as your family. Noah will mostly just read the rest of his science to make sure he is at least exposed to the information he didn't get to yet. The summer reading for next year's omnibus class would have been there to do anyway since all omnibus students have books to read over the summer to get ready for the fall. I hope yall have a great summer! It's already blazing hot here!
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Homemade ice cream, yum! We are considering our school year finished, but the kids are all continuing Mathletics and Mathscore. Those are fun to them. Soon we will begin the digital photography unit study. VBS is this week. Yes, blazing hot. The kids would be swimming more but we came home Memorial day to find tadpoles in the pool, ick! One of my favorite summertime activities is picking blueberries.
ReplyDeleteThe digital photography unit study sure does sound like fun! Where did you get it? We enjoy picking blueberries too. My parents have LOTS of blueberry bushes that are usually full of berries. We have 2 bushes at our house, but they are too small to have many berries right now.
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