Anyone do a 4 day "work week" with a Fun Friday to top it off?

Dana, Friday will bbe a catch up day here if he doesn't work hard and do his work to my satisfaction during the 4 day work week.

Now, if life happens and we have to skip a day, and it's not fault of the kids, then Friday will still be "Funday Friday", and we will skip what work we can and squeeze in what ever we need to before moving on where ever we can

 

We did that (Well, our Friday was TOTALLY a free day) for the first two years up until we started co-op and I ended up counting that day as our off day (we dont' come home and do extra work). Good luck! Hope you have fun!

 

We do that either we have a fieldtrip or we do stuff like games. Sometimes we do nothing. That depends on how hard we worked for the week.

 

This is what our school schedule has been like for several years. I have adjusted the kid's "workbooks" to this so that Friday is the fun stuff and we can still finish the books on schedule.

Fridays may be field trips, computer, board games, movies/documentaries, library, etc. and STILL counted as a school day. Mixes things up and keeps education fun. Mine are old enough that they help plan Friday. You would laugh at some of the things, like "Messy Science Experiments"

Our state requires 180 days....approx 36 are Friday's, so actual books are 144 days.

 

squarepeg.. that is totally what ours would be.. 144 book days and 36 fun days. It really doesnt' sound like many fun days, but when you think of 1 fun day a week it sounds like more

 

We do things that way. Four days on and Fridays off. We still come out ahead in our schooling.

 

Sommer, that's the joy of homeschooling make it fun to learn. Make it so much fun they don't know they are learning. We did that alot the girls loved it.

 

We do something like that.
Friday is Math (which is daily) and Spelling tests (that takes about an hour for both to be done).
Then its and/or:
History projects (dvd's/cd-roms, timeline work or unit studies)
Science experiments (always on Fridays)
Art projects (that need to be finished)
Free time (video games/movies/books)

Now we do move it to another day if say there was a free event somewhere we wanted to go to that or doing the monthes of Sept-Nov and Apr-May its Totally Fun Thursday's because they have 2 outside home classes and we need a modified scehdule for that day.

 

I have a 4 day school week with the 5th day being fun/play/videos and library trip. We also do field trips on day 5 or day 6. Technically there is only one day a week that they don't do any school at all and that's Sunday. Our week is funny though because of hubby's work schedule.

Monday, Tuesday are school days, Wednesday is light school/field trip day, Thursday and Friday are school days, and Saturday is fun/play/video day and field trips if I want to do them alone.

The schedule works for us because of hubbys work schedule and Friday sometimes is also a play day if all the weeks work is done earlier.

 

I am thinking that I might try to block schedule something like: Math/English M/W and then science, home ec stuff, ??? on Tue History, piano, sign language Thursday with spelling every day and then Art/sewing/field trips on Friday. I think it has potential...

 

Barbara, why spelling every day? I think I would move math to daily and just do spelling 3 days a week... the rest looks great!

(just my opinion, feel free to ignore it..lol)

 

I have always tried to make Fridays "lite" and this year, 8th grade, we will only be doing technology/art. But it will probably end up being a longer day than normal because he has to do the graphic art lessons for the software program and then a small demonstration that he can use the skill he just learned.

This will be the first year we don't have math and Japanese on Fridays - so I'm sure he will like that! :lol:

 

I've tried it too and usually our hs group activity is on Fri. it works well for us and I have very seldom had to pull out the " you didn't finish work so you have to finish on Fri " routine. we are pretty flexible on the day,though. It's not always friday. but then again, TX doesn't have required amount of days so a 4 day wk is not an issue for us.

 

I have a block schedule M-Th. I teach Math and Reading daily this includes handwriting and then Science and Social Studies on Tue and THR, Health and Spanish Mon and Wed. Friday is a free day we don't do anything school related until August when we start our co-op. Since our my oldest is very young his classes in co-op will only be for enrichment and the co-op I joined only meets 10 Fridays a semester. So the Fridays we have off from co-op will be free days for us. Good luck.

 

My kids and I have done the four day week thing, mostly during the summers. I try to keep homeschooling very lite during the summer. The rest of the year Friday is mostly a review day to cover what we did during the week.

 

I like this idea, but I have a hard time implementing it. I need to be more organized so it could work.

For anyone who is worried about documenting "school" hours, look at everything your kids do when they have free time. A lot of it could be related to school.

Do they play outside? --P.E.

Do they help you cook? --home ec. or science or math

Are they building with legos or painting or drawing? ---art

Are they watching anything worthwhile? ---history, science, or whatever the subject may be.

Remember, in ps they have a lot of down time and wasted time and days that are not really "educational" in the workbook/textbook type of way. They still count those days/hours. Why should we have to do more than them?