Homeschooling in the summer....

My kids did an hour of video learning before going to the pool for swim team today.  After they got back, a couple of them watched more videos while the other two read and played.  The videos my kids watched related to the Gore/Bush election and the whole election process (13- year-old son); chemistry and algebra (11-year-old son); and what happens in the bathroom by Bill Nye (9-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son).  This was followed by piano instruction in our home for three of the kids, and then the park (where they met and played with seven other homeschool families (around 16 other kids).   

We went to Copley Park. We love meeting there because it lacks an overwhelming number of people.  When you can go to a playground or the zoo or the museum during the year when public/private schoolers are gone, you pretty much own it. We start to get an attitude about summer.  Summer is not about going to crowded places. Copley Park is perfect.

At the park another mom had her daughter finish her math in the car before joining the kids. This is typical and not seen as odd.  I guess we don't view summer as this big transition period. If we follow a curriculum we enjoy having 12 months to implement it.  If we don't care about curriculum then we view learning as year-round, anyways.  Discussions about what we do seem to be non-competitive.   Our 'constant' is that we are different - we went against the establishment, and this unites us across many other dividing factors.