Year-long Homeschool or Summers Off?
There are pros and cons to year-round homeschool schedules. This hangout will touch on them and offer reasons you may want to try it out in comparison to a traditional, long summer break.
TOPICS OF DISCUSSION
•Why school year round?
•What are pros and cons of both schedules?
•What does a year round schedule look like?
•How does year round homeschooling affect lesson planning?
•If you take summers off, do you really take a full break? Or do you have a summer school schedule?
•Is it important for kids to have a break completely free from school? Or is it important to keep up academics even through the summer? What can you do during summer for enrichment?
•Is it okay to switch schedules? Why might you do that? How can you make that transition?
•What grades/situations/regions/climates work best for traditional or year-round?
This is our final hangout of the 2014-2015 school year!
Panelists:
+Heather Woodie
+LaToya Edwards
+Leah Courtney
+Ticia M
+Misty Leask
+Eva Varga
Hostess:+Jimmie Lanley
Apologies. This HoA crashed mid-way and ends abruptly. So sorry! You can see another 15 minutes here
• Year Round School Part 2