Our school year using Oak Meadow has been great. We've stayed on track through remodeling and moving, the kids like the curriculum, and they have learned things that I would not have thought to teach them. They were doing great, and there was no whining when I called "time for homeschool."
That was until 2 weeks ago. It was a crazy week that began with a night in Pittsburgh with my inlaws so that my MacBook could get fixed. (Macs are wonderful computers, but the fact that I have to travel at least an hour and a half to get mine fixed, after having traveled an hour and a half to get it diagnosed may factor into my next computer purchase.....) And it was out 10th wedding anniversary and at the end of the week we were going for a weekend getaway to the ocean without the kids. In the middle we were trying to get some homeschooling accomplished, and the boys were a bit out of sorts, but I expected that from the crazy week.
But this past week (Oak Meadow Week 28), the boys were unfocused. I would put math in front of them that they knew, and they couldn't get it. Division with remainders would be understood, and then completely forgotten. It would take forever to read a story because they were unfocused.
By Wednesday I knew it-- they had hit a wall.
I don't know if it the awful weather we are having, or Spring Fever, or what. There is a reason why so many schools have a Spring Break. And Easter is so late this year that if I put off Spring Break until then, nothing will really get accomplished for the next 3 weeks, except for all of us being frustrated.
So as we progressed through the stuff I had planned for Thursday and Friday (though admittedly a lighter load), I was planning for OM Week 29. In the week's schedule I had already factored in Homeschool Group and a trip to the local college with other homeschoolers to see a kid's show. I looked through the rest of the week and decided that Week 29 was going to be an Unschool week. Yay!!!!!
