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CAgirl4God
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are there some here?
also, wondering how you do your schooling over you moves.
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Navy family here! We are finishing up our 5th year of homeschooling. I sure wish we'd started earlier...would have saved a lot of worry.
When we move, I try very hard not to do school. So far we have been lucky to have summer moves. If we're packing out or in during a school week, I bag school for those days and then we do a field trip or two later on to make up the learning experience time (and to get away from all those boxes, LOL!).
We actually have a harder time when we have houseguests. It's wonderful to have family members visit, but...they don't mean to, but they hover. My children are very easily distracted, so you can imagine what it's like when someone's lurking in the background. My solution to this is...more field trips. I save up field trips if I know grandparents are coming, and we head for the Smithsonian or some place like that.
Another hard part is choosing books and materials from a distance. I really like to see and read the books I'm buying before I pay for them. I can usually tell by reading a few pages whether they'll fit into our plans and learning styles. That's hard to do online, and shipping can really add up!
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We're AF and live overseas. This is my first year homeschooling so i havent experienced moving while hs'ing yet.
Later this year, in Oct., i'll have the baby and then of course the holidays are rolling in and then in April we are supposed to be PSC'ing so thats a lot happening in a few short months. My plan for now is to school as much as i can before the baby comes and take the end of the year off(from the time the baby is born til the end of the holidays). I would like to pick up with school by Jan. of next year and try and get as much done as i can before we move. I would like to school lightly during that time i'm taking off for the baby and the holidays also. Maybe we will just stick with FIAR and math games or something. Once i get out of the groove of school, it's so hard for me to get back in and stay with a routine.
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Hi there! We're an Army family, hs'ing for 4 years. We school year round which gives us a lot of flexibility with our schedule. Our last move was from Korea to DC, with TDY en route in VA. While in VA we had a baby. We put our school book in our hold baggage which we had delivered to our temporary quarters in VA. It was a hot and sticky summer and I was very pregnant. We just did school in the morning like usual and when dh came home from his school, he'd take the dc out to the pool while I took a nap. After the baby arrived, during the move from VA to DC and the weeks in the guest house waiting for our household goods to arrive, we didn't do any school. We also took another week to get the essentials unpacked and the house usable. Then back to school! We were all glad to be doing school again.
When there are known disruptions like moves or family visits, I plan for them by not taking as many breaks beforehand. That way we keep up to where we "should" be or even get ahead of ourselves.
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Army wife here. We've not had to PCS during hsing yet (oldest dd is only 7, so we've been lucky). I suppose we'd just not take as many breaks beforehand, and use the moving as our "vacation" time.
I SOOO kwym about hating it when relatives visit--I have the original distractible dd...sheesh. We do nothing, or a serious "homeschooling Lite" routine, if we HAVE to do something...lol.
We did hsing lite for a good bit of this school year, though, since I had the pregnancy from heck, which started in October and kept me ill til late Dec, then I was put on bedrest from mid-March til I delivered May 7th (had twins, lol), then had two weeks after that with the babies in the NICU (they are both home and fine now). DH leaves for another deployment this coming Friday (oh yay, 18mos of separation), so we're spending as much time as possible with him between now and then...we'll pick back up after he leaves, but we're covering the basics this year, not worrying about getting too spread out into "electives".
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Hi!
Royal Australian Air Force here - and we have moved MANY times. We tend to treat each move as a lesson in itself - finding out the history etc of the new area,lots of outings and explorations, lessons in not being shy but going up to people in groups and church to make friends. I always pack a maths book and a journal and some read alouds or read alones - if that is all we do while packing and moving and unpacking, well, I am happy.
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Retired U.S. Army family here. We homeschooled the last 9 years of dh's 20.
When we PCS'd we'd just do what we could and didn't stress about the rest. I always put our school books in household goods when we moved overseas and kept just the minimum for the suitcases... reading books and math. We would just not worry about what month it was during move years... if we schooled into July and started up again in August, that was okay. One of my favorite benefits of homeschooling in the military is the consistency for the kids. They didn't have to deal with new standards, approaches, (etc.) of a new school district with every move. We also would try to find out a bit about our new area, it's history, culture, etc. We also come up with some field trip ideas. (Lourdes, anyone?) That is some fun schooling.
I have found that since DH retired, we STILL have life events that keep us from schooling without interruption. This spring we took 2+ weeks off when our oldest DS came home from Iraq on R&R. We've had school ultra-lite for the past 3 weeks that we've been getting DH ready to deploy (yes, as a civilian contractor.) My 13yo DD got a little panicked about "getting done with biology" a few times, but I just reminded her that our schedule is our own. I have a feeling I'll be eating those words next week when I want to panic about the calendar!
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I know that Memorial Day is for remembering those who have fallen serving our country but I just wanted to say "Thank you" to all of you military families. You are all heroes. I can't imagine how you manage all you have to endure.
Thank you!
 
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