Schools are closed today due to snow, so my daughter is home today. DS12 attends a cyber charter school which IS open. DS8 is giving me a hard time about having to homeschool today since DD is off. We've already done FIAR and Bible this morning (actually, integrated the two). Should I call it quits for the day? Do you homeschool as usual during snow days? Right now we are taking a break and playing Yahtzee. I guess I could consider this our math for today!
NO. LOL!!! BUT....I don't have the issue of some in school and some not. Also, my kids are not big outside players, esp when it's cold. I did motivate my son today by saying if he was done school by 2:00 they could watch a movie - even rented one he's been begging to see! LOL
Yes....We are skiiers and we love the snow....My son was up and out by 9am. Playing his little heart out at a friends house. My daughter on the other hand has the stomach flu so she hasn't left the couch....Movies all day for her.
Yes, but it's only a "part" day. We planned on going sledding today, so they had to work hard this AM. It got postponed until tomorrow, but they'll have to work hard tomorrow morning.
We don't take snow days. But if I had one that didn't have to go to ps because of a snow day and if the one at home was caught up, then I would take a snow day.
Oh, whenever Daddy is home because of a snow day, we sleep in and don't do too much work! Trying to do school while Daddy is playing on the computer is a bit much, lol!
No. Today both my sons are home (one has no school and the other has no work) and I found my 15 yr old dd in my sons room watching a movie instead of doing school work. When I told her it was time to start school work she said "BUT ITS A SNOW DAY!" I said.. "not for you. You get tropical vacations and days at the beach, get to work!" We just got back from Mexico and the Cayman Islands, and in two weeks we will be in Florida. I explained that I don't think she would give up a day at the beach to sit in the house watching a movie. She agreed, and started to do her work.
I would... but then we don't get snow here very often, so when it snows, EVERYTHING closes down! :lol:
Yeah, DH came home early at 1 PM, so everything I planned for this afternoon went completely out the window! They're playing Uno, Battleship, and Wii games instead! Oh well, there's always tomorrow. At least now I can get some knitting done.
I wish, but sadly if I did we would not do school 9 months of the year. lol So, we take "sun" days occasionally. You know the days that decided to hit above 20 degrees and are sunny and beautiful.
And you sit back and think, "Isn't it GREAT to have a husband who enjoys spending time with his kids!!!" Believe me, that's worth SO MUCH MORE than one math lesson!
Even when school is canceled, we have school. But it doesn't take us long, so we still go out and have fun too.
Since we seldom have snow, it's more usual we'd have "hurricane days" in the fall. But today we had a "cold day." My school building is built of concrete block, uninsulated, and it's very old so the electricity doesn't allow running plug-in electric heaters. We have to use kerosene space heaters. Well, last batch we got was not the clean kerosene we thought it was, and apparently it clogged up the wicks on our three units. So we have to go and replace the wicks and get some clean K1 kerosene to burn in them. Yesterday, dh was home sick, so Ben and I froze for a couple of hours, then spent the rest of the day at the library (it doesn't open until 11am) catacornered from us. This morning it was 25* outside -- just too danged cold to tough it out with no heat at all. So Ben got a day off. Well, sort of off -- his mom has him running errands with her, reading his Flat Stanley books, and practicing his multiplication. Tomorrow, I hope, dh and I will go to school and change out those wicks, I'll have Ben meet me about 10 or 1030 am, and if we don't have the heat going, we'll spend the day at the library again.
We have "too good to do school days" instead. We do school, when the weather sucks, because there isn't much else to do, and it keeps the kids busy when they are stuck inside. Then when it is really nice we take days off. But we are in Texas and it just gets cold and rainy nothing fun like snow. : )
no. can't afford it.we are slow any way. so I would rather relax and finish what needs to be done peacefully than rush it in much busier days.
Not usually- although when I had one in ps, and one home we did. Ditto for school vacation days. It was just too hard to get dd to concentrate when her brother was free for the day, and brother was constantly interrupting us because he wanted in on it, too (even if 'in on it' meant aggravating his sis). We actually took a mental health day today. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I'm EXHAUSTED. And this was our first week homeschooling both, so it's been trying on all of us as we settle in and figure out our stride. Meanwhile our days are dragging, and the kids aren't focusing as I need them too, so there's been far more, "guys, look up here please" than I'm used to. Ds also has a tendency to moan about assignments, so that's been draining to listen to as well. We take those as needed. We WON'T be taking off many holidays though, so it should even out. Both kids did go outside to play in the snow, and both are really excited that the plowman left a GIANT bank to slide down. Maybe that will motivate them to NOT dawdle tomorrow!
Yes....and no. We took a snow day yesterday. I had my older two home. An afterschooler here for the daycare which is Laneys friend. Nothing would have gotten done! She was dressed and outside all day long! BUT I will try and make up the work either at night or over the weekend. We do this on 1/2 days of schools and school closings too. When I have kids here who are not normally, there is no way I would anything out of her!
