How much homeschooling will you do over the summer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a current 3rd grader I am homeschooling this school year. I’m planning on stopping officially at the very end of May. Over the summer she will still have to read 3 mins a day ( at least) and do math a couple of times a week. That’s it.

Do you mean 30 minutes a day?

I hope so.

[Anonymous]

None. No schoolwork over the summer. Reading for pleasure, yes, that's a given.

[Anonymous]

A lot. He doesn't need any help, catching up or getting ahead. I'm doing my Master's in ECE and will be practicing on my 2nd grader this summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot. He doesn't need any help, catching up or getting ahead. I'm doing my Master's in ECE and will be practicing on my 2nd grader this summer.

Love this

[Anonymous]

No workbooks or academics except maybe for my oldest who will be taking a HS class. He struggles in math and maybe will need remediation.

For everyone, as much outdoor time as possible. I’m hoping to find sports camps. They don’t need the daycare but they need time with other kids that involves physical exercise. We don’t have kids in our neighborhood that are available for play dates for the ones in elementary since their parents work. They are usually at camps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None. No schoolwork over the summer. Reading for pleasure, yes, that's a given.

So this. Threads like this make me dislike living here.

[Anonymous]

Yep. Summertime is time to go Tiger Mom on the kids. No rest for the weary!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No workbooks or academics except maybe for my oldest who will be taking a HS class. He struggles in math and maybe will need remediation.

For everyone, as much outdoor time as possible. I’m hoping to find sports camps. They don’t need the daycare but they need time with other kids that involves physical exercise. We don’t have kids in our neighborhood that are available for play dates for the ones in elementary since their parents work. They are usually at camps.

Same here. My rising 5th grader will continue with twice weekly math tutoring to reinforce the materials from this school year. Trying to prevent a summer slide which was stark last summer when we didn’t do much. Other than that I need to focus on getting her outdoors to get exercise and fun with peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a current 3rd grader I am homeschooling this school year. I’m planning on stopping officially at the very end of May. Over the summer she will still have to read 3 mins a day ( at least) and do math a couple of times a week. That’s it.

Do you mean 30 minutes a day?

lol yes. 30 mins a day.

[Anonymous]

We've been homeschooling this year (K and 3rd grade). We both work full-time and haven't done homeschooling every day.

So, we'll continue throughout the summer, no break. We did the same last summer and it worked well. We will make two trips to a beach house, no homeschooling then.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been homeschooling my 1st grader this year. Will do math over the summer to prevent summer slide and because DS really likes math. I’ll keep reading to him every day and have him do some silent reading every day. We will do a little bit of grammar/basic writing. Not sure beyond that. We may not finish the extra subjects (social studies/geography, history, science) this school year, and might do some of those, but won’t do overkill with that.

[Anonymous]

Totally on board with no school work summers... until this pandemic hit and we have been virtual since last March. Last summer we did nothing. No camps, no work, just play. It was a nightmare. This summer we will do something. Out door camps if possible, outschool classes on fun subjects, outschool core subjects classes, etc. Anything to keep them busier and more organized with their time. And anything to make up for some of the ways school has been lacking this year. I wish we could have a “normal” summer. But it just doesn’t seem possible.

[Anonymous]

We're homeschooling one child, he'll get less. We're supplementing another child, she'll get more. Probably will work out to 2-3 hours a day, in the end.

[Anonymous]

Not technically homeschooling, but my child will continue seeing her reading tutor, we may join Mathnasium or hire a math tutor, and she'll do the Brainquest summer workbook, which she has done and enjoyed the past two summers in a row (something about the stickers and the map are good motivation, I wish their school year workbooks had those). And then she'll probably go to camp a few weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None. No schoolwork over the summer. Reading for pleasure, yes, that's a given.

So this. Threads like this make me dislike living here.

American public schools have very long summer breaks compared to some other school systems around the world, and loss of acquired knowledge during the summer months is a well-documented phenomenon. So I'd rather my children read a lot and solidify math skills than do nothing academic whatsoever.