How far along are you in "school" this year?

[hsmom3tn]

I'm just curious... or maybe a bit nosy...:D

 

Tomorrow is day 121 for us. I'm so excited!! I don't think we've ever before been that far along by this time of year. We're usually major slackers after the holidays. :tongue_smilie:

 

We do school all year, but for the purpose of our records we count the days. Can't remember the exact day we started counting, but it was sometime in August...

[LibraryLover]

:) My kids totally where they need to be. :)

Edited February 15, 2010 by LibraryLover

[mom31257]

We have finished 118 days. We only do official school 180 days a year, like our state requires. We are on track with curricula, too, but planning by semester really helps me do that.

[Jean in Newcastle]

We're only on day 85 of formal curriculum. We're on way more than that on unofficial rabbit trails - which is the best learning!

[patchfire]

We've officially finished 120 days; we're required to turn in attendance records for 180 days, or I probably wouldn't take such a close notice. :)

[Hathersage]

I'm a month and half in, we just started in January. This really only applies to math and handwriting, though.

[chaik76]

I think we're around day 120. Our goal is 200 for this year.

[myfunnybunch]

:) My kids totally where they need to be. :)

 

I have no idea where we are, lol, but this. :D

 

Cat

[Karen in CO]

we are on day 100 tomorrow as far as the official record keeping goes. My state requires attendance forms be kept (not submitted) and requires one hundred seventy something days so I aim at 180 on record books then quit counting.

[sgilli3]

We are 16 days into our new school year.

[nmoira]

Day 105 including six field trip days to a children's theatre production or ballet. So, 99 I guess and tomorrow is Day 100. :)

[joannqn]

We are officially on week 21 of 36 with our virtual academy. Unofficial, we are a week behind where I planned to be but that is okay because we typically finish most of our curriculum a month or so early. We have plenty of time to finish before the official end of the year.

[sunshine]

ummm, somewhere in Nov/Dec according to the textbooks. but we only use them half the time. Math is the major source of textbooks and English. Everything else is eclectic. So probably way ahead of public and private schools!;)

[LibraryLover]

I have no idea where we are, lol, but this. :D

 

Cat

 

LOL But you might want to add the word 'are' somewhere in my post. lol Typo queen, signing off.

[HSMom2One]

We have completed 19 weeks out of the total 36, and we're ready to start on week 20 on Tuesday. I am going to give dd President's Day off, because we really need to do some chores.

 

Blessings,

Lucinda

[Melissa in Australia]

we haven't officially started yet. the beginning of the school year here in Australia is the start of Feb. but we started our summer holidays late, we have friends visiting from Alice Springs, they homeschool and the only holiday that both our families have every year is when we get together for one month.

we will be starting our school year in a week and a half.

[Quiver0f10]

We are starting week 21 of 36.

[Country Mouse]

We are on day 112 according to my HST.

I usually don't pay attention to this or try to keep up with the ps schedule, but the other day we were at some friends' house and the little boy came home from school having celebrated the 100th day of the school year. I wondered to myself how many "school" days we had had and when I got home and checked we were right around 100 also. I was surprised! Time flies!

[Stacie]

Our state requires 180 days, my lessons planned for 180, but my kids like to work ahead. We have less than four weeks left. We started the second week of August, so I'll be filling in the rest of the 180 with other educational stuff.

[MamaT]

We are starting week 23 of 36. We have to keep attendance records here in NC.

[rwjx2khsmj]

117 of the required 180 days are done. We are in just about the right place to finish the plans I had for this year in all our subjects.

[elegantlion]

Day 121. :D We have a 180 day requirement, but typically go over. We'll probably finish up the first week of June.

[Nakia]

We do six weeks on, one week off. This is our week off. We have two more 6 week sessions left for the year.

[momofkhm]

This is week 26 of 36 weeks.

 

We have to school 9 months with reasonable breaks and holidays. We use TOG and so we school for 36 weeks. It works out nicely. :-)

 

This year we will have our spring break late according to curriculum. We usually take a week off between every 9 weeks of school. But our co-op and dd's writing class both take off 2 weeks later. We will take off the same week just so it really is a week off - no curriculum at home + no co-op + no writing= no school!

[Carrie12345]

I think we're on 110 (I'd have to check ds's planner). We have to hand in 180.

 

This year, I'm getting my paperwork in early so I can start counting in the summer and not feel so pressured later on!

[Truscifi]

We are on week 25 out of 36, right on schedule except in math where we are about a week behind due to ds refusing to do a review chapter on the grounds he already knew it and shouldn't have to do it again. :glare:

[Mad Jenny Flint]

on week 20 of 36. Chugging right along. We took two weeks off in November and two weeks in December. We are smack in the middle of a 12 week slog. Slog, trudge, slog, GO!

[Desert Rat]

Week 21 is starting today for us.

[happyWImom]

We are on day 125!:party:Every day, we mark of a tally and change the "number of days in school" on our big whiteboard. The dc love it.

 

We use a lot of different things, so at the beginning of the year, it was a lot of unit studies & lapbooks, and then we started trying to encorporate MFW & HOD-we're only on week 3 of their guides!

[lionfamily1999]

This is week 22 for us.

[lauracolumbus]

I really don't know. But, I do know we're on lesson 120 of Saxon and that feels good, esp. since we throw MUS and LOF in the mix.

 

Laura

[mcconnellboys]

We are on day 111 today.

[Heather in OK]

Today is our 100th day! :)

 

We're supposed to have 180 also but there are no requirements to turn that in to anyone.

[momtolgd]

We are in week 20 out of 38. We typically go into July, and then take 4-6 weeks completely off before starting a new year. :001_smile:

[Tap]

I do know that we are most of the way through minor subjects like spelling/geography etc. We are at least 1/2 way through major subjects like math, reading, grammar etc.

 

We don't follow a schedule and tend to school in informal time chunks instead of structured days. This may mean that entire school day is grammar and reading, accomplishing many lessons in one day, instead of breaking each day down into 7 subjects. DD11 (my only hser) often will do a weeks worth of one subject in one sitting, and then move on to the next subject on a following day. She learns better with mastery of large chunks that smaller pieces of spiral learning.

[AngieW in Texas]

Depends on the kid and the subject.

 

16yo

physics - in ch 19 out of 37 that we'll cover (definitely will be working through the summer)

precalculus - just started ch 5 out of 9 (definitely will be working through the summer to finish)

history - week 22 out of 36, not bad

English doesn't really have a schedule

 

14yo

biology - in ch 23 out of 42 (will work through the summer)

geometry - in ch 13 out of 17 (will finish in March or April and then move on to Algebra II)

history - week 27 out of 36 (will finish up early and then use the SAT subject test book to study for the SAT-II)

English - doesn't really have a schedule

 

11yo

science - should finish up in May or June

math - working in four different Key to series, just keep doing the next thing

history - week 20 out of 36 (will work through summer until finished)

English - no actual schedule

[mycalling]

We're on week 30 of 28 accelerated weeks for the school year, so we're ahead. We switched Math curricula in the middle so we're behind there but through all of history, logic, and science for this year and are just learning whatever interests us in those. There's always more to add in for LA, so the kids don't remember we were supposed to be done by now.;)

 

The plan was to be done by Feb for the birth of a baby, but that didn't pan out so I'm thinking of schooling ~60 weeks till the baby is really born this September.:D

[ShelzNH]

Week 19 of 36 in Sonlight.

[WTMindy]

Exactly half-way. We are starting week 19/36. Of course, we do a lighter summer session too, but we are half done with our regular stuff.

[....]

We started our school year on June 1st, sooo...we're almost finished with everything. I had to buy more stuff because I wasn't sure what else to do...

 

I think the 2nd grader is a solid 3rd grader, but I'm stalling before we officially move into 3rd grade work. The 1st grader is doing wonderfully in everything except writing (he struggles with writing).

[Rhonda in TX]

Not sure of days, but we're on schedule to finish the second week of May. Woo-hoo!

[athena1277]

We have done 119 days so far. We are not required to count days, but I am keeping track just in case and to also help me pace our work.

[Tree House Academy]

We just finished day 119. :) We are on week 23 (but my weeks are counted whether we miss days or not, so my day count is the one we go by).

 

We should finish officially the second week of May...BUT, we did a lot of curriculum switching in the middle of the year and we will finish each one before we call it "done" for the year. We do math over the summer to keep it going and this year, we will be doing English over the summer for my older ds (started R&S mid year, a grade level below).

Edited February 15, 2010 by Tree House Academy

[Lightly Salted]

We started August 2nd and have to complete 180 days, though we'll school year-round. Today was day 115 :)

[Kidlit]

Today's day 100 for us, too! :hurray:

[LarlaB]

We are on week 24, and will be done at week 36. Our state requires we keep attendance. ;)

[hsmamainva]

We started Week 23 of 36 today! :)

[*Jessica*]

We school year-round and are on day 136. We're required to do 180 days, so we're getting very close to that requirement! We will just keep going, taking days off whenever needed, and won't start the next grade's materials until July. We'll use the rest of the school year to delve deep into things that interest us and to review anything that may not have been learned to mastery.

[keptwoman]

We are on Week 3 of 40 weeks :)

[Cricket]

Today was day 102. Not bad considering we took the entire month of September off for our long road trip. :) We started the first week of August. This is the first year I had kept track of days. It keeps us a little more accountable.