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Are we just plain addictive to homeschooling that we don’t want to give it up or is this just a sign things are working out for us?
Recently, I was researching curriculum for next year and deciding what to carry over and what to “graduate from” when hubby came into the room and asked if I was homeschooling through the summer.
I gave him the “deer in the headlights” look and debated if this was a trick question.
“Uhm”, I said, hoping that “Uhm” would be translated into it’s many translations of “Sure”, “Whatever”, “Whatever you are thinking that’s what I was thinking”.
The truth was that I hadn’t actually thought about if I was going to homeschool year round, via a regular school year, or through osmosis.
I WAS thinking, wow, I need to get those set of books, however, it was getting closer to the holidays and hubby was having heart palpitations, every time he saw me and my mother in law with a sales paper in our hands, so I thought better of saying anything and was hoping the poster size sticky that I left on the windshield of the truck would get his attention that I subtly was wanting those set of books for school.
Think that was too much hinting there?
Anyway, I guess he interpreted “Uhm” as in “Whatever you are thinking, that’s what I was thinking” and with a smile went, “Hey why don’t we just do year round schooling.
Since I was the main educator and he made occassional appearances like a real principal in school will occassional pop their head in the room to make sure the kids haven’t tied up their teacher and was performing a war chant, I just gave him a tooth filled grin and wonder if a set of books that I really wanted could be thrown in as a bargaining chip.
Okay, maybe not, but it would have been worth a try.
So yes, we are going to move from a traditional 180 day school schedule to a year round school schedule and yesterday, I’ve already begun work on a year round calendar with matching lesson plans to help plan out next year’s curriculum.
And yes, there are plans to post blank templates of the lesson planners here for anyone else who maybe homeschooling year round or the templates can just be used for regular school planning.
I’m a planner but I need to be. My husband is very analytical minded and unfortunately I tend to be that way so it’s really interesting how we are able to be under the same roof sometimes.
Put two planners who are analytical minded sometimes and creative sometimes and basically, you get a household that by sheer will of miracles, get things done but other times, nothing is accomplish because of too much planning and less common sense, oh just pick up the hammer and put the nail in the wall already, that picture needs to be hung somewhere and if this keeps up, it’ll be a 22nd century masterpiece by the time we decide where to hang it on the wall.
Anyone else school year round??
Love to hear your tips, your war, er, fun stories and just really what is it like to school year round?
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