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How do you schedule your school year. My dd is going into the 4th grade and I am trying to get truly organized for next year. I am toying with different possibilities for our year but am not sure how it would work.
For example, if we do a 4 day week would our weeks go to 45 instead of the 36/180 days? I am in a state that does not have requirements as far as attendance but I like to have at least 180 days which is what the schools have.
So basically I am just looking for options on scheduling our year.
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When I first set up the schedule, I try to break the school year into 3 sets of 12 weeks each. Somehow having fewer *shifts* works more comfortably for us.
3x12 = 4x9 so it's the same approximately 180 days (which I'm pretty sure I'm required to do). But not all weeks are the same length. For example, we take off Federal holidays because dh has them off. Usually it comes out to more like 160-some days. So, in case anybody asks, I call days when the family goes to a museum or to a play, whatever, a school day (even if this happens on a weekend). Pretty much we start the same time of year as PS and end around the same time as well, give or take a week.
Right now we are with an umbrella school, but the one year I was reviewed by the County, nobody looked at attendance; they seemed to focus on how much the kids were getting done, which sort of wouldn't be happening if our schedule deviated too far from the traditional number of days.
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hylabrook1 wrote:
| we take off Federal holidays because dh has them off. Usually it comes out to more like 160-some days. So, in case anybody asks, I call days when the family goes to a museum or to a play, whatever, a school day (even if this happens on a weekend). |
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That's what we do. I feel comfortable about having four formal days a week and saving the fifth one for field trips, art projects, reading aloud, outside the house activities and so on. (this is what Kolbe Academy recommends, actually).
Some years I started logging this kind off activity during the summer in order to have some time built up already. Usually this was during the years we were expecting a new baby. I have never had trouble getting up to the 180 days for California regulations.
As to HOW -- last year I did an Ambleside schedule of 3 X 12. For our family the 12 weeks seemed like a long stretch. I'm thinking of having a 6 X 6 schedule next year... just to throw more complications in!
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Well, I'm a photographer and am very busy during October through mid-December. It was hard for me to get much schooling last holiday season. I did what I could but I wasn't real strict about scheduling and stuff so I called it our "summer vacation".
Because of this, I'm planning on schooling year round. I don't really have a schedule though because everytime I make one, I never follow it. 
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I start by checking the public school schedule and plan holidays if they are out of school.
We do table work 4 days with a little on Friday (piano mostly) for 32 weeks; plus we have one week of standardized testing. We have no problem finishing our books at an enjoyable pace.
Every 7 or 8 weeks of our set curriculum we take a break and do a week long unit study on a science and an art topic and do field trips, etc. Often when Bill is off, we do more field trips. I'm hoping for Arlington on Monday.
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