In homeschooling, you often have to make decisions that you never considered before. One of these is holiday time. Obviously, you want to take some time off for the holidays, but how much?
In public schools, next week is either completely off or running on half days for Mon-Wed, then there is the long weekend. But what about if you homeschool?
The truth is that whatever works for your family is fine. However, you need to apply some common sense here, as well. For example, if your kids are just too hyper to work on math during the week before Christmas, you probably won’t get much done anyway, so why not take that time to work on holiday crafts and prepare for Christmas, instead?
Some families (mine did!) work right up to Christmas Eve, and then also the week between Christmas and New Year’s in order to get a jump start on the new year. It can mean that you get to finish sooner than school kids, which is always fun, or you can use this time to catch up. Just be sure not to totally ruin the holidays by asking your kids to work right up to Thanksgiving dinner!
Obviously, not everyone celebrates all holidays, but chances are you have some in there, so start thinking now about how much time you want to take off and how it will affect your classes in the new year.
Tags: holidays, homeschool, kids, school, time off
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