Alana in Canada Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 How do you catch up? I just realised this has never really happened to us before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcara Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I would just pick up where we were and plan on finishing the school year 1 week later. No biggie...one of the advantanges of homeschooling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macrina Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Playing catch up will just stress you out, call it a break an pick up where you left off. Finish a week later in your "school year" or just accomplish a little less then you thought you would in your school year. If your kids are anything like mine, then end up learning when they are sick anyway. My kids learned all bout why we have fevers and how germs work and how soap works last week! Wasn't in the "plans" but they were still learning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alana in Canada Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 This is when I think homeschooling year round is a real disadvantage. We will never catch this week up. All my spreadsheets will be forever behind. Not that I'm a slave to a spreadsheet (ahem).... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macrina Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 This is when I think homeschooling year round is a real disadvantage. We will never catch this week up. All my spreadsheets will be forever behind. Not that I'm a slave to a spreadsheet (ahem).... We go all round too- and this is why I don't plan that far ahead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Scream, thow a tantrum, and make everyone work double. Does your spreadsheet have dates on it or something??? Why don't you just erase them, so you're always fine? I did that with my clocks for years, setting them ahead so I was always on time. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 (edited) You can plan ahead with year-round, but you have to view it as a progression, not a series of musts. You break your year plan into attainable goals (spring semester, summer term, etc.). PS. If your plan is so tight a week off messes you up, I suggest you take an extra week off. That way you can REALLY be behind, haha, and will have a chance to edit and see what is essential. Drop something, the world won't fall apart! I dropped an entire model (2 weeks) from WT2, and nobody croaked. We didn't like the story anyway. :) Edited March 20, 2009 by OhElizabeth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alana in Canada Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 OhElizabeth--you are radically messing with my poor stuffed up head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katiebug_1976 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 If you feel the need to "catch up" I would suggest doubling up on 1 or 2 subjects a day until your back "on schedule" (exa. M: 2 math lessons, T 2 English/grammar lessons, W: 2 history lessons, TH: 2 science lessons etc.) If you stretch this out over several weeks, then you'll have the extra work made up with out having a major overload. Or another idea would be doing only 1 or 2 diff. subjects per day until you are caught up. Do a weeks worth of science and/or history one day, then catch up math the next, then English etc. You will just have to decide what will work best for you and your dc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 OhElizabeth--you are radically messing with my poor stuffed up head.:grouphug:We've been down all week with the flu and it was only today I realized that we could be down another 4 or 5 days. I've never had it before. Elizabeth has some excellent advice worth revisiting when your head is clear. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alana in Canada Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 Elizabeth has some excellent advice worth revisiting when your head is clear. :) Thanks! Hopefully we'll be up and running next week. Sorry to hear your family is sick, too, nmoira. It's just nasty, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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