Homeschooling Through the Summer with My Highschooler

Homeschooling through the summer with my highschooler was always fun.

I have shared before how we enjoy schooling year round. Last year was the first year in a long time that I followed a more traditional public school schedule, i.e. beginning August and ending May-ish or so because I knew it was Mr. Senior 2013’s last year.

Homeschooling Through the Summer with My Highschooler

Now that its spring and will be summer soon, I have been waffling about what we want to cover in high school for Mr. Awesome.

Making the decision to homeschool year round here in Texas is not hard to do because you don’t want to be outside too much during the heat of the day.

It just makes sense to me to school during the hot summer days and enjoy more relaxed days in spring and fall and we do.

I have two things I know for sure I will tackle with my highschooler this summer.

• We have signed up for an online writing class with Fortuigence. I really love the fact that Mr. Awesome will receive feedback from somebody else at the high school level.

When my kids were very young, I didn’t want the outside help because I wanted to form and develop their character and study habits. 

As they have grown older and especially when they enter the high school years, it is a nice bonus to receive positive feedback from others because it really mimics real life.

Your child receives feedback from others, whether in a college setting or a work environment and it helps them to learn now how to accept that feedback, positive or otherwise.

• The second thing I know we are going to scoot along on and focus on is our study of North Star Geography.  Because we are going to work on this through the summer we are going to savor it and plod along on it.

Talking about North Star Geography, the planned release date is close.

I do have a few more snapshots though of what the highschool level hands-on geography program will look like.

Here is the front cover and

here is the back cover.  They are so smokin’ hot, I love them.

For now, we are still using our notebooks and moving along on it.  I will be sharing more as the boys put the finishing touches on their DIY Atlas Covers.

I plan on starting our next unit study too so no rest for us though I will slow down a bit.

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What about you? Have you started making plans for the summer yet?

Hugs and love ya,

Want to read some more.  Look at these posts for year round homeschooling.

• How to Use Summertime to Put a Foot in Homeschooling
• 30+ Summer Activities for Middle School Kids
• A to Z List: 100 Fun Summer Homeschool Unit Study Ideas
• What is Year Around Homeschooling? Part 1
• What is Year Around Homeschooling? Part 2