We do year round school with a schedule of 5 weeks on 1 week off.
Our week off is always a challenge due to kids (and mom) being used to the same schedule.
I tend to do better if we stay somewhat busy during that week.
So, here are some of things we did that we don’t always have time for during our typical school day.
Zoo!
This feels like a field trip and the homeschool mom in me does not want to count it as a day off.
ha
We even got to see a turtle laying eggs at the zoo playground!
We don’t always get to do the fun extra things during a school day so I often do those on our week off.
Firework chalk art!
Trivial Pursuit using Professor Noggins cards.
I have had this on our homeschool to-do list for a while but it kept getting pushed to the back burner.
You can see my post on how we use the game to review what we have learned, here.
We got a new math game also!
I use our math games to review what the twins are learning.
The boys can do these games with them and they all benefit from the extra practice.
This break also included my husbands birthday and the 4th of July!
We hiked with friends one day also!
And got an impromptu lesson about Pigmy Rattlesnakes.
Why are the dangerous ones so pretty?
Although I have seen many articles on the benefits of kids being bored, they have not been around some of my schedule needing children when they have nothing to do…
You can tour the inside of the house which is beautiful.
Beautiful views of the lake though.
We walked on an old road down to the lake.
This boy was concerned that cattle were roaming and he was wearing a red shirt…
This looks like a nice peaceful scene but Mayflies were out in droves…
They would fly all in your face.
Lots of interesting colors of grasshoppers.
My youngest son took this.
“Caution Open Range Wildlife”
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Thankfully they remembered it when they started climbing and I heard how much they loved this hike over and over.
The views are amazing!
I had her come back for another.
