Comments on: Switching to an Almost-Year-Round Homeschool Calendar

By: Building Your Academic Calendar for Homeschooling — Life As Mom

Building Your Academic Calendar for Homeschooling — Life As Mom — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:52:17 +0000

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By: Joy

Joy — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:31:21 +0000

Each state has its own requirements for homeschooling. In Texas, homeschools are considered private schools and therefore aren't regulated by the state. We don't have to turn in any paperwork to the state, so we can manage our homeschool how we feel is best.

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:12:03 +0000

I thank you very much for this idea. I think it's great! I am going to try this. I had no idea that it was even legal to homeschool all year. How do you do all your paperwork, when it is all do back at a certain date, September to June? Can't wait for your reply. Thank you so much.
Have a Blessed Summer!!!
Joan

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:08:09 +0000

@Kristen, "LOL"!!!

By: Lisa T

Lisa T — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:29:27 +0000

I appreciate your calendar examples. I started homeschooling my son in K, but we were unable to start until October since that was the earliest I could quit work. We ended in early July, took 3 weeks off, and started grade 1 in early August. I scheduled a lot of days off because we hardly took any days off in K and that had been rough. So we had school about 9/10 weekdays and finished grade 1 in early June. We then took the whole summer off and started grade 2 this August. What a difference!! Grade 2 has been so much harder than Grade 1 and I think a lot of it is because we had so much time off this summer. So I think I'm going to re-do my calendar and have year-round school. I loved your idea of taking June off because that is when we have VBS, as well, it's the best time of the summer, etc. Thanks again.

By: Elysabeth

Elysabeth — Sat, 01 May 2010 00:52:26 +0000

One of the schools in a district in our county does year-round schooling and so far I think it works for them. From my understanding the way the schedule works is that they ateend for nine weeks, have a 3 week break, attend nine weeks (probably have a short break for Thanksgiving), have a 3 week break (which would coincide with the Christmas holidays somehow) and so on. I think they have been doing this for five years now, and it seems to work for them. I wish the schools in our district would go to a year-round schooling as they've talked about it many times but never get on the bandwagon. Of course, now that I have teenagers, it doesn't really matter much. They are almost out of school and are having their summers occupied other ways.

Good luck with your scheduling. I'm sure you will figure out what works for you best. E

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By: Nichole

Nichole — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:30:30 +0000

I've been toying with the idea of switching to something like this. The visual is really helpful! Thank you for sharing it. We might be following your schedule next year, too! .-= Nichole´s last blog ..How many times this week have I said ‘rings’ instead of ‘flies’? Four or so. =-.

By: Rhen @yestheyareallmine

Rhen @yestheyareallmine — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:43:20 +0000

Our first year or two we copied the public school's schedule. After that I started tweeking stuff until I got to our schedule now. Our schedule allows plenty of breaks, impromptu trips and yet keeps us working a couple days a week in the summer.
This schedule has made schooling much less pressure and a lot more fun.
I like the idea of Thirsty Thursdays. Will have to compose a post for the upcoming Thursday!

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Try-its at Home « Creekside Girl Scout Troop #3763 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:22:33 +0000

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By: Kristen

Kristen — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:04:38 +0000

This is great. I wish that we could do something like this. The main problem is that my husband is a public school teacher!

I like the calendar. I guess I'm a visual person Out of curiosity, how did you make it? (What software?)
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