I don’t do the month on week off thing but I like Sue Patrick’s ideas. She has work centers this way they are learning and doing something fun. You could pull them out when you have your week off. Say for instance you are studying cells. you can take two posters, cut one up laminate and laminate the peices of the other and he can match them. She also does a dot pen and Hot/cold dots. They put the pen on the dot and it tells them if they got the answer right or wrong. You could make them up for anything….
I was planning on doing one for each subject. You can even make mini posters in a file folder so you can just fold all the peices up inside of it and put it in a file cabinet or a file box. My boys are 8 and 10 and they love the pen and dots. I even came up with some good ideas to reuse the poster board. Make everything stuck on with velcro, so you can just switch everything out, even the hot dots on a single peice of cardstock laminated and velcroed or double sided sticky taped. Have him match his answers. I thought this would even be good with Art projects and Artists. Have the artists of study on a board and if they sculpt, paint or make abstract art he could try to make something like one of the artists. You could photocopy the info and put it on the board with velcro and he can read and answer the questions and then make a project that looks like the picture in the picture study. 🙂 Same with music ect….
This way if you are sick it can be a center and file folder day! yippee 🙂
Blessings! Hope this helps 🙂
