Homeschooling in the Springtime…

… has got to be the most challenging thing in the world!  LOL!  In Canada, where it’s so cold for so many months, when those little buds start appearing and the warm breezes start blowing.. well, it’s tough going to keep the kids indoors to do their lessons.  What’s a mom to do?  Well… for one… send ‘em outside!  LOL! 

The other thing you could do (which ties into the sending them outside thing) is to break up your school day a little.  After lunch is the nicest time of the day in the spring, the sun has had a chance to warm the air nicely, and everyone is so busy lookin’ out the window that I think a little break is in order.  So I send them outside… walk the dog, muck in the garden, play on the patio… whatever.  School for a homeschooler doesn’t have to be confined to 9-3.  You can do a half day from 9-noon.. eat lunch out on the patio, then spend a couple hours (till about 3?) enjoying the warm summer sunshine… and come back inside to finish up lessons a little later on.  I mean, with the sun still bright in the sky at 6 and 7pm.. there’s no reason to eat supper early… why not just let lessons finish up, then enjoy a nice late dinner (the smaller of the gang can always have a snack on coming inside to tide them over till dinner).

In the summer, we often flip this.. enjoying the outside weather in the morning and late afternoon when the sun isn’t so overwhelming, and we come inside for lunch and to do our schoolwork.  It just occured to me to apply the same principle to the spring.  I’m hoping to help fend off the “spring fever/burnout” everyone starts feeling at this time of year. 

What do YOU do to celebrate Spring in your homeschool?

Blessings!

This entry was posted on 8. April 2010 at 21:17 and is filed under General Homeschool. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

| Print