When does school start at your house?

[Nakia]

We are starting back August 4th. We school 6 weeks on, 1 week off all year, and we are done by mid May. This schedule works great for us. Just wondering when everyone else is starting back.

[TwinMominTX]

It is so stinking hot outside that I figured we might as well be inside doing school. I've never been organized enough to plan our breaks. We simply take them when circumstances come up.

 

My girls were genuinely excited to get back into the swing of things.

[LKMN]

August 25th is the day

[Parabola]

We are starting back August 4th. We school 6 weeks on, 1 week off all year, and we are done by mid May. This schedule works great for us. Just wondering when everyone else is starting back.

 

Nakia, that is EXACTLY how we do it! We do 6 weeks on, one off, and we're starting on the 4th, just like you!

[MomOfOneFunOne]

Our first day of school is this Friday. We'll spend the day rearranging the school furniture, going to the Space Museum and Planetarium (our first science unit is astronomy). On Monday we'll be bottom in seat, pencil in hand, nose in books, brains turned on students.

[cin]

I always start the Monday after DDs birthday, (8/15) There is usually a party Saturday, mom recoops on Sunday and we start school. This year, it is 8/18. It just seems like the perfect time. New age, New grade, more maturity required ;)

[Mom2legomaniacs]

We start mid-July. Today is the beginning of our 3rd week. It is hot and buggy out making it perfect for being inside to do school. Then when it starts to cool off a bit and the schools are in session, we can take a break. It we go somewhere then, the crowds are really down.

[CAMom]

Hi Nakia! Miss you at FIAR!:grouphug:

 

We're starting Aug 4th, too. I leave plenty of flexibility in our year so that we can travel. Our first trip of the school year is the first week of October.:)

[Alenee]

We started back yesterday too. The girls seem happy with the new schedule, PTL! We have to break next week for VBS and I'm having surgery in 4 weeks so it was time to get back to it. This way we can take those breaks and not have them keep us working into July next year.

[6packofun]

We need to spend some extra weeks catching up on a few things and we'll be testing in August, too, so our 180 days won't be up until a little later than I'd hoped.

[BakersDozen]

We are starting back August 4th. We school 6 weeks on, 1 week off all year, and we are done by mid May.

We are close to this schedule. We start on the 4th but will do 8 weeks on, 1 week off, 7 weeks on (plus part of Thanksgiving week), then 3 weeks before the holidays when we take one week off. I didn't want to start this early (love the summer weather and being out in the pool!) but baby is arriving in Jan. and the flu usually hits sometimes Feb-March so I figure it's better to get ahead now and have more flex time later.

[Quiver0f10]

August 25th is the day

 

Same here.

[nutmeg]

Summer is just getting started around these parts! We still have 3 weeks of swimming lessons, VBS, and a beach trip to do.

 

We will start the day after Labor Day, just as the public schools do here.

[lori in tx]

WE starte back July 7th, we are on our 4th week. it is so hot we try and do a whole term before co-op starts in September. We do 9 weeks on 1 week off kinda.

blessings

lori

[momtolgd]

We will start August 25 this year. :D

 

We will be on vacation next week :D and then we have to prepare for our portfolio assessment on the 19th. That gives me a few weeks left for planning! (I like planning! :001_smile:)

[threetreasurs]

We start up right after labor day.

[Elisabeth in IL]

We never fully stop but we begin again full force after labor day.

[threetreasurs]

We never fully stop but we begin again full force after labor day.

 

So you school all summer?

[Elisabeth in IL]

So you school all summer?

 

We do math, reading and spanish. The boys did a week of science camp. We go to museums, zoo and any other fun educational outings we can find. We live by the saying - - when daddy works, so do we. This summer has been quite lite but will pick up even more in August before become full school in September.

[threetreasurs]

You are energetic! I find that I am too lazy to make them work all summer but we do math occasionally so that they don't get too rusty.

[iquilt]

Yesterday :) The kids were very excited to get back to it.

[johnandtinagilbert]

We are on our last week this week (and we are struggling b/c we K N O W we're just about there!)

 

We sorda do 6 on 1 off, but that get's all messed up b/c I take off when the ps school kids do b/c our closest friends are publically schooled and it's just torture :tongue_smilie: for all the children if they have to school when they could be playing with friends.

 

So, with Thanksgiving, Christmas break, Spring Break....we end up schooling 1/2 days in summer for 2 months, then taking off 3-4 weeks straight...where I then lesson plan like a crazy woman so I don't have to plan too much during the year!

[Nakia]

Nakia, that is EXACTLY how we do it! We do 6 weeks on, one off, and we're starting on the 4th, just like you!

 

 

 

Cool!!! I really like this schedule!!

[Nakia]

Hi Nakia! Miss you at FIAR!:grouphug:

 

We're starting Aug 4th, too. I leave plenty of flexibility in our year so that we can travel. Our first trip of the school year is the first week of October.:)

 

 

Hey there friend!! I miss you guys at FIAR too. Heather is here, too. I am glad to "see" you!

[Parabola]

Cool!!! I really like this schedule!!

 

 

Me too. I like planning out only six weeks at a time, it means less erasing!:tongue_smilie: On our off weeks, I plan out the next six weeks. It works great. The kids like it because there's always an end in sight, it really breaks up the year.

[Amy loves Bud]

I always start the Monday after DDs birthday, (8/15) There is usually a party Saturday, mom recoops on Sunday and we start school. This year, it is 8/18. It just seems like the perfect time. New age, New grade, more maturity required ;)

 

Luke's and Peyton's bdays are 8/13 and 8/14. It takes me a full two weeks to recoop, so I am very impressed with your schedule. We wait till after Labor Day to start. :001_smile:

[jenn-]

We started yesterday. She was on "school light" all summer though. Hopefully next year we will be able to take more of a break, this year we had to get done our 2nd grade curriculum before breaking.

[fshinkevich]

We will start August 26th. We usually just take breaks as needed, we tend to enjoy homeschooling more than breaking - we get bored easily :D

[3lilreds in NC]

We're going to officially start up the new year on Sept. 1, but we're going a bit stir crazy, so I may start some little things sooner. I was thinking we could go back to FLL, which the girls enjoy, and some math facts practice, which they desperately need.

 

We were going to start Aug. 1 until we decided to go to MI for the middle two weeks of the month, LOL. Works out well anyway because I haven't ordered all my stuff yet!

[3lilreds in NC]

We will start August 26th. We usually just take breaks as needed, we tend to enjoy homeschooling more than breaking - we get bored easily :D

 

That is a lovely day to start - the day after my birthday! Good thing you're not starting on what really should be a national holiday. :lol:

[Stacy in NJ]

For us August is the dog days of summer. We're sick of the pool and have lazed ourselves out. We always start the first Monday in August. We do half days until after labor day. This schedule allows us some travel time in the fall, sometime in October, to take a couple weeks off. We school from the first Monday in August to the second Friday in May, taking 7 weeks off for summer.