ommmward said:
"Life just carries on as normal for us. We don't do anything "formal" at all at the moment - there's really no distinction between play and work, so if my children ask to do some reading or writing or colouring or painting or to talk about something interesting or to go somewhere interesting, I'll just respond as I would in "term time". And if I think of suggesting cool things to do together, I'll suggest it just as I would any other time of year."
Same here. We do end up falling into different rhythms than during term-time, however.
Nearly all the home ed activities stop for the summer, as do most of dd's other activities. In summer, we rarely go to popular public places such as museums or bowling or swimming pools. Why bother, when we're used to going when it's less crowded and rates may be cheaper? We know we'll have the place to ourselves once school starts again, so we just wait for the autumn.
Instead, my older daughter sometimes goes to various intensive holiday workshops to do drama or football or music, so I may go a whole week without seeing much of her. We try to catch up with all of her friends who go to school: I always think the six weeks will be plenty of time for that, but it never is.
I don't know whether I prefer the school holidays or termtime. It's just different, I guess. It's nice to have a change.