3 weeks on, 1 week off ?

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  • June 9, 2010 at 2:18 pm
    Nina
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    If you do this, do you school year round?  I’m guessing yes, but just wanted to double check.  🙂  Thanks!

    June 9, 2010 at 3:35 pm
    my3boys
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    Yes, I believe that is what you’d be doing.  I have considered several schedules myself, but my kids never feel like any of them constitute as real *breaks,* they believe in a *summer* break:) 

    I guess I do, too, since we go camping alot and do other things during the summer that the boys only have a chance for during those months (classes/camps offered through the city).

    hth

    June 10, 2010 at 3:46 pm
    Susan
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    This is the schedule we used this past school year and it’s a great fit for us.  Yes, we do school year-round.   Tomorrow will be our last day of this school year.  We’ll have three weeks off then start our new school year on July 5th.  Then we’ll start again with 3 weeks on/1 week off.  In December we’ll have 3 weeks off. 

    Blessings,

    Susan

    June 10, 2010 at 4:09 pm
    Nina
    Participant

    That sounds good Susan.  Do you get in 180 days of school with that schedule?

    July 4, 2010 at 1:12 am
    KellyP
    Member

    Ooh Interesting.  I know you said this works, my concern is does it feel “choppy” doing it in 3 week chunks?  How does the flow go?

    3 weeks off in Dec and in the summer sound great – right about what I was thinking, so I will have to play with the calendar a bit. 

     

    I was thinking 6 on and 1-2 off -with one being more of a fieldtrip week.  I’d love to hear what others are doing.

    July 4, 2010 at 1:26 am
    krommama
    Member

    We school roughly six weeks on one week off.  We are finishing this school year this coming week.  Then we’ll have five weeks off.  We also take about 6 or 7 weeks off from Thanksgiving to New Years.  So we have Term 1 between summer and the holidays, then after New Years, we have Term 2 and Term 3.

    July 4, 2010 at 3:39 pm
    csmamma
    Participant

    We do 3 months on, 1 month off all year round.

    On – Jan, Feb, March (Term 1)

    Off – April

    On – May, June, July (Term 2)

    Off  – August

    On  – September, October, November (Term 3)

    Off – December

    Blessings! Heather

    July 5, 2010 at 11:05 pm
    Susan
    Member

    Nina,

    Sorry for the late reply–I’ve been having computer problems.  Yes, we do get our 180 days in with the 3 wk on/1 wk off schedule.  We just started our new school year today (7/5)! 

    KellyP,  I haven’t found this schedule to feel choppy at all.   I feel like we stay more in a routine and having 1 week off is not too long; it’s just a nice break.  It keeps us from getting burned out.  We used to do 9 weeks on and 4 weeks off but the 9 weeks was way too long and we got out of our routine with 4 weeks off.   It’s definitely a personal thing as to what you’d prefer.  

    Blessings,

    Susan

     

    July 7, 2010 at 12:15 am
    KellyP
    Member

    I’m going to give it a whirl – and as I thought about it I really like the concept of that week off being a “flex” week for fieldtrips, big projects of simply just OFF!  I also loved out it worked out having thanks giving week off, 2 weeks at Christmas and so on.  I wasn’t so sure, but now the more I think about it, the more I like – thanks everyone who responded. I appreciate the encouragement.

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