We start and September and end in June. We’ll probably start a week after Labor Day and when we finish, we finish. This year that just finished, we started a week after Labor Day and finished the middle of May. I am hoping to do that again. I really get spring fever in May and am just done!! But, we will go into June if need be. I am planning to take off 2-3 weeks at Christmas/New Year’s time and a week the end of March or first of April. We also take off any governement holidays. My husband works for the Bureau of Land Management, so if he is off so are we – unless we are behind on something. We are also off on Friday’s ’cause my husband only works M-Th. If we get the planned information in, I don’t care how long it takes us to do it. I am thankful that our state doesn’t require a certain # of days. The only thing we didn’t finish last year was math, but we didn’t even start the math book until March because we were doing Rapid Recall with our math facts up until then.
Before we started the “school” journey, I had planned to school year round. But, we are just so busy in the summer that it doesn’t work for us. We tried one year to do term 1, take a month off, term 2, take a month off, term 3 take the rest of the summer off. But, by spring we just wanted to finish so we didn’t take the whole month off and got done earlier.
We tend to figure a start date and then plan flexible breaks, making sure that we are at a good stopping spot.
Right now I am feeling totally overwhelmed and am dreading September and starting school again . . . and it is only June. We are just going to be so busy and I’ve still got so much planning that I feel like I am not going to get any break or “rejuvinate” time.