Throwback Tuesday: When There's not Enough Time for School in Your Homeschool

Originally posted April 23, 2015 when my boys were 10, 9, & 7. Today I'm talking about our schoolwork. With a dentist appointment scheduled for Evan this morning and some errands to run, I knew we needed a shortened day of school today. I asked the boys to do math and reading and told them they would be free to spend the rest of the day however they liked. Needless to say they were thrilled. We have days when there is just so much going on that we don't have time to fit in a full day's worth of school. Sometimes we have appointments scheduled during school hours, we have homeschool activities planned, we have field trips, or we have family obligations. As long as it doesn't happen ALL the time we can work around the time crunch. On those days that time seems to be against us we have several options: Do a shortened day of work and just cover the basics Bring the work with us and have the kids work in the car Give them some...