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Summer CMO Question
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Do any of you set up a summer schedule of studies on the CMO? We study year ’round and this is our first year using the CMO. We’ve finished most of our resources, but will continue 3Rs in the summer. One year melts into the other around here, so we generally don’t really have the “first day/last day” of school. For record keeping purposes, this means some resources carry over into the following year. Have any of you found this to be a problem?
I guess I’m asking if it’s possible to set up a “mini school year.” From June 1-August 31 type of thing. Summer reports.
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I’d like the “year” to start with a child beginning to have records and finish when they graduate. Heh. A peek at my hidden unschoolish side. We’re quite organized, but don’t follow the traditional “year.” How do the rest of you handle this? Just adjust start/end dates for resources?
I don’t set up anything different during the summer. Our year typically ends in mid-July, and the next one starts in mid-August. We finish a few subjects earlier than others, so for the summer, there are always 3-4 subjects that naturally make up our “summer schedule”. History, literature, and math are the ones that keep going, regardless of season or school year. I try to finish history by the last day of school, and it usually works out. I think my dd will finish her math by the end of this year, but ds won’t, and I’m ok with that. I’ve made peace with the fact that our school years will probably never have neat edges that begin and end all at the same time!
Once I get something in the Organizer, I rarely go back and edit it (unless it’s to delete the resource, if it’s a book we aren’t enjoying). For this year, we’re already finished w/ science. Both kids finished their copywork, and I just haven’t added more in. Our final picture study is today. And poetry is also finished for the year. I like that it works out this way, because I want our summer school days to be shorter anyway. Plus, we tend to do more stuff outside the house in the summer (vacation, sports, field trips), so it all evens out in the end in my opinion.
As said, yes, you can just continue using it. The only thing the ‘start of school year’ setting in the SCMO affects is the date range on reports set with things like ‘This School Year.
I set my School Year to start July 1st, as our yearly reports to the government are due June 30th. But it really doesn’t affect how the organizer works.
Thanks. That makes sense. I’m adjusting our routine for now and moving a few resources to different days to change the layout of the weekly overview. I’m still so thankful that I’m using the CMO. It really does almost everything I need/want it to do.
Thanks Ladies.
Going over Charlotte’s Forms makes me realize that, in our family, we learn in larger chunks of time than the traditional American grade levels. I think I’ve been so influenced by Mason (and Montessori previously) that I no longer refer to leraning in year’s time frame. Maybe that’s the key to my whole question. I’m thinking it goes back to the idea of the “Person.” Learning a broad topic over an undetermined period allows for speeding up and slowing down as needed.
Don’t know that it makes any difference with respect to the CMO, except that it does an awesome job of flexing….better than my own brain I might add. I just need to let the setting of dates blur like an Impressionist’s painting.
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