Falling behind schedule

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  • October 28, 2011 at 2:46 pm
    artcmomto3
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    We are running about 3 weeks behind in our history module and 4 weeks in science.  I don’t want to stress myself out trying to catch up.  I could always throw in some extra science on days we don’t normally do it, but history would be too stressful.  DD is doing a Bible study on Wed. mornings as well, and she has “homework” for it.  Some days it is too much to do both lessons in one day, so we occasionally drop the history module.  Along with field trips when we do less or no formal schooling we have just fallen behind.  Do I just do the exam when we come to it?  Our first term ends Monday, and I figured we would just continue what we are doing instead of doing an exam.  Or would you drop the exam altogether?  DD is 7 y/o and in 1st grade.

    October 28, 2011 at 2:53 pm
    suzukimom
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    This is something I have to tell myself regularily….

     

    Don’t worry about where you planned to be, go with where you are.  If you are doing exams for all subjects during a single week – do that but adjust the exam so that you are only asking about things already done.   Or do the exams when you get to the point in the subject where you were going to do exams.

    For the year, either 1)adjust  the books you plan to read,   2)plan to go a bit into summer or other break times  3)plan to end not quite done and either skip some next year, or start where you left off last year.

    hope that helped!

    October 28, 2011 at 3:52 pm
    pangit
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    Are you using the SCM guide for Bible/history/geo?  I have found the the questions for exam week really don’t take that long and you can do more than one question a day, or even do it at another time.  You don’t even have to tell them it is an exam.  You could ask her at family worship time to tell Daddy about when David was annointed King (or whatever the question is).  I was able to make up for some lost time this way.  You could skip exam week and move on with the next lessons but at lunch ask her, you remember when we talked about ________________.  Tell me about it.

    We started the year a week behind.  We started on time, but are planning to take all of Christmas break with my dh (he is in college and last year we tried to do school during his break and it was like pulling hair because Daddy was home and she wanted to be with him.).  Last year he had 3 weeks off, so I scheduled that in.  Then last minute I happened to look at his school calendar and because New Year’s being on Sunday he gets 4 weeks off.  We will take the four weeks but have to make up the extra week sometime.  Also, we will be making a move in March. Don’t know where for sure, but when he is done school we’ll go wherever the job is and it won’t be here.  So, I don’t know if we’ll miss more than spring break.  By asking more than one Bible question per day and at other times, I was able to wrap exam “week” into a day and she answered everything perfectly fine.  We’re now moving on knowing that at least one subject will probably finish on time.

     

    October 28, 2011 at 4:39 pm
    sbkrjulie
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    I decided to school year round this year. It was just too stressful to “stay on schedule” with our learning because there are always going to be little “hiccups” in learning. This way if we need to slow down and study a math skill a bit more or another area, we can and not worry about some deadline date. Granted, summer learning will be a lighter schedule and maybe only 2 days a week, but we will still be working on skills.

    Of course, I am in Texas and we are very blessed not to worry about reporting anything to the state regarding our schooling.

    October 28, 2011 at 5:34 pm
    poodlemama
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    If you can just let it go, let it go and know that the learning is the important part not the schedule.  If you are a scheduler (like me) I have found that schooling 6 weeks on 2 weeks off year round works best for us.  I plan 6 weeks worth of work (what I REASONABLLY figure we can do in 6 weeks)  then I figure the first off week is really a “catch-up week” and then we get a real week off–of course if we finish in 6 weeks we get 2 weeks off (if we finish in 6.5 weeks we get 1.5 weeks off etc.) 

     

    I find this helps keep us motivated –to get more time off– and also gives room for the last minute visits with friends, trip to the zoo, sick days…….and we all know the list goes on.

    HTH

    Lindsey

    October 28, 2011 at 6:32 pm
    artcmomto3
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    Thanks for the replies!  Next year I would like to start earlier in the summer and do year-round schooling.  This is our first year, and it was a very last minute decision on DH’s part to pull DD out of Christian school, so we are following a PS type of schedule for this year.

    And yes, we are doing Module 1 for Bible/history/geography.  We are not doing everything since DD is so young, like we are not reading Letter in Egypt, so we just do map drill every Wed. since DD has been doing Bible all morning at church.

    Thanks for all the tips!  We very well may let some run over into our summer break, and hopefully we won’t get too far behind to start Module 2 for the beginning of next year.

    October 28, 2011 at 7:16 pm
    simple home
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    Doing history in part of the summer is actually relaxing because there is less pressure with everything else that usually goes on. I don’t stress in the year anymore because of this extra time to “catch up”.

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