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Will you do school work over Spring Break?
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| I'll print review sheets and work for them. |
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| We'll review just to stay on track. |
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| The teacher assigned work we'll have to do. |
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| The teacher suggested things we'll do. |
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| We'll take the week off completely. |
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(last vote on : 4/11/2008 9:40:48 AM)
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Will you do school work over Spring Break? - 4/7/2008 12:18:25 PM
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csl7037
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My kids are on Spring Break this week; I'm sure some of you are or were last week or next or soon so I'm just wondering...how much and what kind of school work will you have your kids do during their break?
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RE: Will you do school work over Spring Break? - 4/7/2008 1:36:35 PM
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garsyt
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I really couldn't answer because my choice would have been something different. We did a lot of reading but nothing that was assigned - just for fun. The kids played lots of educational sorts of computer games and we played a number of board games that got them thinking. My eldest ds memorized his lines for his upcoming middle school musical, and my youngest dd worked on her young author's conference book. My youngest ds spent some time helping me plot out a new flower garden and assisted his dad in figuring out how long of a retaining wall we are going to need to put in. Our eldest dd did a bit of research to figure out how feasible a town wide recycling program would be and started some planning in that regard and read nearly non-stop the entire break. So while it wasn't school work per se, it was still educational in nature and the kids had a great time to boot!
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RE: Will you do school work over Spring Break? - 4/7/2008 1:56:55 PM
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thisistheday
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Our spring break was several weeks ago. I voted we took the whole week off, because that was the closest. But my son did read an AR book over break. He was reading anyway though, and read other stuff too. My middle daughter probably read several also, she's a big bookworm. She also is writing a story so I'm sure she worked on it.
Our spring break comes at the end of a grading period, and work is generally not assigned here.
Dee
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RE: Will you do school work over Spring Break? - 4/7/2008 3:52:48 PM
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debilyn
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B will be practicing soccer and the school musical this week. S and K will do some reading on their own because they love to read. K has discovered the "Junie B. Jones" and "Boxcar Children" series, so she can often be found reading another book in those series. S is becoming interested in "Nancy Drew" books.
I voted for "take the week off" because neither of them have assigned work over the Break, and we usually take the time for some fun and a break from school work. We do play a lot of educational and learning type games, but that's a regular part of our family times.
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RE: Will you do school work over Spring Break? - 4/7/2008 10:54:04 PM
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manda59
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My dd has a couple of pieces of work to do over the break (she has 2 weeks off) - we'd have expected this, and she will incorporate it into her plans as usual.
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RE: Will you do school work over Spring Break? - 4/8/2008 7:16:55 AM
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joannepir
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We've been cooped up all winter. My kids will be OUTSIDE! (and reading before bedtime)
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RE: Will you do school work over Spring Break? - 4/8/2008 9:42:41 AM
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kernsfamily
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We've already had spring break (the week of March 17th)....
Our kids certainly took a BREAK...though, they do read alot on their own, and our "Spring Break" this year turned out to be full of learning opportunities (not that we planned it that way, it just happened)...as we went to San Antonio (the Alamo), Galveston (Sea Turtle facility and laboratory) and College Station.
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RE: Will you do school work over Spring Break? - 4/8/2008 9:50:16 AM
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garsyt
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Just for the record - I didn't require anything of my kids except that my eldest memorize his lines and my youngest work on her book. Anythings else was ALL of their own doing!
Garsy
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RE: Will you do school work over Spring Break? - 4/8/2008 9:51:13 AM
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Sideways
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quote:
ORIGINAL: garsyt
I really couldn't answer because my choice would have been something different. We did a lot of reading but nothing that was assigned - just for fun. The kids played lots of educational sorts of computer games and we played a number of board games that got them thinking. My eldest ds memorized his lines for his upcoming middle school musical, and my youngest dd worked on her young author's conference book. My youngest ds spent some time helping me plot out a new flower garden and assisted his dad in figuring out how long of a retaining wall we are going to need to put in. Our eldest dd did a bit of research to figure out how feasible a town wide recycling program would be and started some planning in that regard and read nearly non-stop the entire break. So while it wasn't school work per se, it was still educational in nature and the kids had a great time to boot!
Gee, garsy... that sounds an awful lot like a week of homeschooling! 
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RE: Will you do school work over Spring Break? - 4/9/2008 6:20:55 PM
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2shaye
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Spring break for us was the week after Easter. Dd was not assigned anything specifically for that week, but she has some long term projects due at the first of May that she did some research on.
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RE: Will you do school work over Spring Break? - 4/13/2008 8:23:13 PM
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joannepir
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We've actually been catching up on our music lessons and theory too. It has been much too busy with school plus practice.
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