Last year I began the morph into year-round schooling, a change that will carry over into this year, despite the boys' protests. Now before you go thinking I'm a totally mean mom to mandate school even when the weather is beautiful, consider that we only do school four days a week during the summer, and a typical off-season school day is between one and two hours long, and some days that includes a 45-minute swimming lesson.
And as much as the boys grump and complain about it, they seem more content and less restless on days that have some semblance of schedule to them, and a little bit of school helps with that.
And those extra summer days allow us to take more days off for visits, trips and vacations, or to just finish up the school year early if we don't end up using them all (hence book throwing on May 3!).
And keeping up on math and Spanish during the summer keeps us from having to spend the entire month of September re-learning what we've forgotten.
And we're not a farming family. We're a gardening family, but we don't need to entirely abandon school for a whole season in order to make a living.
And we will take a couple weeks completely off before the new school year starts up again later this month.
Have I justified this decision enough yet? Why do I feel like I need to?
Anyway, back to the real point of this post -- we're celebrating the last day of school today! Yea!!
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