Our schedule wasn't listed as a choice, so I'll post a reply. We unschool, and our learning continues all the time. We're as likely to do math on a Saturday in July as we are on a Thursday in October. But "no schedule" doesn't fit us either, because our year does have a rhythm to it, and my kids do, increasingly, like to plan certain things into their weels.
Basically our school year starts in March when the outdoors begins to spring to life and we try to get over our winter doldrums. We become quite productive during the late spring, and by summer we are in high gear. We have lots of time together for academic stuff because many of the weekly activities are on hiatus. By September we're doing all the academic stuff plus we're back to activities and with our heavy involvement in music things only get nuttier as we get to Christmas. By December the academics have fallen away a lot and we're mostly doing hands-on learning (music, baking, crafts, etc.).
Our down time is a much-needed break through January and February.
We also usually take a 2-week family holiday in September which changes the face of our learning. So in actuality, our "school year" has naturally evovled into something that's very much like a normal public school year, except that it's rotated 180 degrees.
Miranda
Basically our school year starts in March when the outdoors begins to spring to life and we try to get over our winter doldrums. We become quite productive during the late spring, and by summer we are in high gear. We have lots of time together for academic stuff because many of the weekly activities are on hiatus. By September we're doing all the academic stuff plus we're back to activities and with our heavy involvement in music things only get nuttier as we get to Christmas. By December the academics have fallen away a lot and we're mostly doing hands-on learning (music, baking, crafts, etc.).
Our down time is a much-needed break through January and February.
We also usually take a 2-week family holiday in September which changes the face of our learning. So in actuality, our "school year" has naturally evovled into something that's very much like a normal public school year, except that it's rotated 180 degrees.
Miranda
