Homeschoolers: do you take breaks?

[Poofer3]

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We're 9 weeks from being done with our curriculum and i'm just going to take a week or 2 off and start up again. i'm thinking we'll go through the summer and do what we can but not stress if it's more relaxed. do you see any problems with this?
i find longer breaks are harder to get back into it...mondays are hard because we've had 2 days off and no one wants to do work.

do you take off the whole summer or long breaks?

[SusanH]

No, we don't do long breaks. DD gets a week off this week because she worked so hard prepping for the test she took last week, but that's about it. We really don't assign very much work at all and they always have the ability to work ahead if they want time off. They rarely take us up on this option, though. DD could easily do her entire week's assignments in one day if she were willing.

[alaskagirl]

Usually the boys get off any days dh has off from work. So, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Day, New Years, etc.

We do take the summer off though, because we are so busy. Living in a northern climate, there's a lot of outdoors stuff we need to pack in before the snow flies. I just don't have time to officially school them in summer. However, we still do a lot of learning, just using different methodology. We do a lot of science/nature learning in the summer because we're outside all the time anyways.

[Cait]

We take breaks here and there as we need them, but nothing official.

[shortcake]

we do the same thing (unschooling) year-round. no different "schedule" during holidays, etc.