Comments on: Tours & Bookings http://weblog.jamesworld.ca/2007/05/20/tours-bookings/ Family Year of Travel Around the World! Sun, 20 May 2012 05:29:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Rick http://weblog.jamesworld.ca/2007/05/20/tours-bookings/#comment-4 Rick Fri, 25 May 2007 21:29:55 +0000 http://weblog.jamesworld.ca/2007/05/20/tours-bookings/#comment-4 Thanks. You have given us some pretty good ideas there. We'll certainly look into the possibilities within our local education system up North. Journal writing is something we'll all be doing anyways. We'll try and build on the quality of our first foray in daily personal logs though. That one can be found as the top of the page link at: http://www.jamesworld.ca/hike Thanks. You have given us some pretty good ideas there. We’ll certainly look into the possibilities within our local education system up North. Journal writing is something we’ll all be doing anyways. We’ll try and build on the quality of our first foray in daily personal logs though. That one can be found as the top of the page link at: http://www.jamesworld.ca/hike

]]> By: David & Sarah http://weblog.jamesworld.ca/2007/05/20/tours-bookings/#comment-3 David & Sarah Fri, 25 May 2007 17:49:14 +0000 http://weblog.jamesworld.ca/2007/05/20/tours-bookings/#comment-3 Hello James Gang. Sounds like a wonderful trip and we look forward to living your family's rtw experience vicariously. The one thing our kids stated very clearly before we left was that they wanted to complete their school year while we travelled. They did not want to have all their friends end up being a year ahead of them. It turns out that in Ontario (where we lived at the time of the trip), kids do not need credits from grade 8 or earlier in order to graduate from High School. As the older one missed grade 8, then there was no problem with 'needing' to pass any courses. We were not concerned with geography, history, english or french. The kids learned far more travelling than they would have if they stayed behind. I was only concerned with science and math - so we focussed on those courses with my older child only. In fact, there were a lot of practical math/ science exercises that we did while travelling. For example in New Zealand we went bungie jumping and ended up doing a science project on acceleration, speed, and distance by measuring how far my son fell in each frame of the video we took. Believe me when I say he now firmly graps how speed/ acceleration and distance are all related because he remembers how he felt when he jumped. The younger two (then 8 and 10/11) basically wrote a journal and read lots - there was no schooling at all. The younger two caught up within a few months of returning. The older one was never behind - in fact math and science became his best subjects (for a while!). I guess what I am saying is that it may be possible to leave school for a year without missing the year and without doing anything too formal during your trip. Check to see what requirements there are in NWT, as well as what facilities are available for home schooling and courses by internet. Hello James Gang. Sounds like a wonderful trip and we look forward to living your family’s rtw experience vicariously.

The one thing our kids stated very clearly before we left was that they wanted to complete their school year while we travelled. They did not want to have all their friends end up being a year ahead of them.

It turns out that in Ontario (where we lived at the time of the trip), kids do not need credits from grade 8 or earlier in order to graduate from High School. As the older one missed grade 8, then there was no problem with ‘needing’ to pass any courses.

We were not concerned with geography, history, english or french. The kids learned far more travelling than they would have if they stayed behind. I was only concerned with science and math - so we focussed on those courses with my older child only. In fact, there were a lot of practical math/ science exercises that we did while travelling. For example in New Zealand we went bungie jumping and ended up doing a science project on acceleration, speed, and distance by measuring how far my son fell in each frame of the video we took. Believe me when I say he now firmly graps how speed/ acceleration and distance are all related because he remembers how he felt when he jumped.

The younger two (then 8 and 10/11) basically wrote a journal and read lots - there was no schooling at all.

The younger two caught up within a few months of returning. The older one was never behind - in fact math and science became his best subjects (for a while!).

I guess what I am saying is that it may be possible to leave school for a year without missing the year and without doing anything too formal during your trip. Check to see what requirements there are in NWT, as well as what facilities are available for home schooling and courses by internet.

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