I tend to be a head’s down, do it until it’s done kind of
person. That means that we rarely take
breaks during the school year. My boys
complain because the school systems seems to have a break or two each and every
month. We do take a week at Thanksgiving
and two at Christmas.It’s not that I don’t like a break – but we are in a demanding co-op that doesn’t take “teacher work days”, so taking a break simply means doubling up on stuff the next day. That’s No Fun!
We are finally done with co-op. We love it, but now is the time to change
tempo a bit and relax just a tad. We’ll
be going full steam until June and then slow down to a pace of just finishing
up any work that needs to be finished after that.
Full steam means incorporating field trips now, which is
such fun! I miss fieldtrips that we took
when they were younger.
This week is “Spring Break”.
We’ll be doing our mandatory testing Wed-Fri, but all subjects are on
hold for the week. I have to admit –
taking time off is a good thing.
Do you take a spring break?
Do you take breaks during the school year as well?
We do take Spring break. My husband is a public school teacher so we usually take the weeks off that he is off. This year we took the whole week of Thanksgiving off, 2 weeks at Christmas, 1 week in February, Good Friday and now we are off this week.
ReplyDeleteWe started school in early August and we didn't take any Monday holidays all year. The curriculum I was using really was a 5 day curriculum and I just needed to do it that way to keep myself sane. (Am I sane? HA)
We have about 4 weeks of school left. Woo-hoo!
Hi Karen,
DeleteIt sounds like you have this down pat. I know what you mean about the 5 Day curriculum - you either have to squish two days together or fenegal to get it all in that week. Two cheers for maintaining sanity!
April