When we first started homeschooling, it was mid school year and we just followed the same schedule as the school district. But, as the year progressed, I felt this leading to start our 2nd school year in the summer. So, I counted back the days, accommodating for holidays and vacations and we started school in June, rather than August. We went to school four days a week, taking Fridays off. We tried this for two years and at the end of the school year last year, I felt like I needed a break, since we had not been able to take a Spring Break because we took off some extra days here and there and did not want to fall behind in our studies. So, we took the entire summer off from school and started back when the public school children did.It was very nice having the summer off, but what I found was that the children did indeed lose some of what they had learned over the summer. Just from not using it as they had during the school year, some of that information had made an exodus from … [Read more...]