Thanks, I thought I would do a mini series since I took the summer off
@faithfullyinfertile
2 ай бұрын
I LOVE that your summer mostly consisted of resting and play board games ❤❤❤ You are creating and nurturing a bond with Morgan that the two of you will be able to enjoy for a lifetime! And kids don’t need bells and whistles for entertainment!!! Board games are so fun! We just played Clumsy Thief over here. Our first day is the same as you - August 5. Until then we are doing some summer school as well with Bible, reading aloud and math. Love summer days ☀️
@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy
2 ай бұрын
We liked the break. I think maybe it was too long, By about 2 weeks. It not super fun for Morg to review things she knows she used to have in her memory. She has already agreed to doing year-round school because of it! Do you do that? More breaks throughout the year and a much shorter summer? Even just an hour a few times a week would make all the difference. We did LOVE the board games tho! Our chess board is permanently out now.
@faithfullyinfertile
2 ай бұрын
@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy I have been homeschooling year round since the very beginning and I absolutely LOVE it. Homeschooling is just our lifestyle. It affords me the ability to take a day here and there when needed instead of taking weeks/months off at a time. The most we take off at a time is a week at Christmas. Historically, I have started in mid-July and we finish up mid-May and then June we are on a summer schedule where we do very minimal just to keep momentum going in the core subjects. This summer, however, we have kept the summer schedule rolling through July! All of us have just needed the break and I think it is because we had unexpected construction work in our house for seven months that finally wrapped up mid-June. We will be getting back to the full load by August 5th, which is the latest I have ever started a new school year! I could totally see you and Morgan loving a year round schedule!
@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy
2 ай бұрын
@@faithfullyinfertile If you homeschool year round, in your mind, how do you see the school year or grades? Do you still plan per year? Is that easiest because of curriculum and everyone else does it that way? I really like your schedule. I was wondering what year round people really did in the summer because it's hard to keep kids -- or WANT to keep kids -- at school when there are other kids, a pool or beach or mountains waiting for them.
@faithfullyinfertile
2 ай бұрын
@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy I live in a very homeschool friendly state and keep a yearly portfolio with sample work from each child for each year. Everything from July 1-June 30 goes in that year's portfolio. After 12 years, I have learned it is "okay" for one curriculum/level/subject to carry over to the new year if we aren't completely finished with it by June 30th. I wouldn't say I plan by complete year because I used to do that and then plans would change and it would frustrate me that I did all that planning and then didn't use it. So, now I plan for what each child needs NOW. My older two are going in to 9th and 7th grade and will be in Classical Conversations Challenge program. So their year is basically planned but my younger two (2nd and 4th) I planned "their next thing". For each of them that was basically just their next level of phonics/language arts and their next level of math. For the content subjects, we do Classical Conversations memory work, Story of the World, Let's Talk Science (Masterbooks), a unit study on Africa (Gather Round) and then Curious Kinder (from Seven in All here on YT). Curious Kinder is literature heavy and we love books! So that's my plan and all of this will go into the 2024-2025 school year portfolio, but if someone finishes a language arts or math level before June 30, I just move them right into the next level, which means I could potentially have a curriculum split between two portfolios if a child started a math level in Feb and finished in Nov. This allows my children to work at their own pace all the time. I love that. We are not confined to completing things August to May or feeling like we can't start something new until August. Year round homeschooling really does provide so much freedom. I have always done year round because my children need the structure and routine our homeschool provides, and they also benefit greatly from keeping core subjects moving at all times. I hope all that made sense!!
@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy
2 ай бұрын
@@faithfullyinfertile That really helps a lot. Thank you the explanation. I think we are on our way there soon. Like you, we can pause a bit in the summer but not near as long as we did this year (or previous years with public school). This is my first year homeschooling so I saw first hand what teachers probably see in school after long summers. I bet they spend a lot of time reteaching things. We needed a break but maybe not THAT long.
@koinonia-bn7xz
2 ай бұрын
Oh my word…love the Nancy Drew board game. I just ordered it to do with my two girls. Thank you for such a great idea. My daughter loves Agatha Christie books (so do I 😄) so this will be so much fun to play together.
@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy
2 ай бұрын
OMGosh, really?! That is so neat! I am hoping we can figure out the mystery!!!
@seasonsofwonder
2 ай бұрын
Those books sound so interesting and fun. 💖☺️
@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy
2 ай бұрын
They are!
@Hot_Springs_Homeschool
2 ай бұрын
How fun! I happened to catch the tail end of this live.
@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy
2 ай бұрын
I guess I wasn't really planning to be live but the premier feature helps people see what is coming so that is why I did it with this week's video series. Now I will go back to once a week or so!
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