Ending the School Year
Are you the kind of parent who has an end date for homeschool?
Do you ask questions like:
- Can we quit before June?
- Do we have to finish the book?
- When can we go to the pool?
Dribbling to the Finish Line
When we homeschooled, there were no math pages left undone that I wish we had finished. There were no books that I felt we should have read more of. The fact that we sort of dribbled to the end felt appropriate. It wasn’t like one day we’re doing science and the next day we’re at the pool. We simply started going to the pool more and started doing schoolwork less.
There is plenty of time over the summer and into the next year to pick up where you left off. If everybody’s bored and sick of doing homeschool, go to the pool! Maybe go to the pool a little more each day and do a little less of school until the whole script has flipped.
The next thing you know, read aloud time is just a pleasurable activity after lunch or at bedtime, and the pool becomes your primary focus.
It’s okay! You’ve all worked hard. Enjoy summer break!
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