Summer Break

We are on "summer break" now, so what does that mean this year? Here is what we are doing:

• review math 2 days per week
• review phonograms and spelling rules 1 day per week
• spelling bee once a week
• learn to type
• read library books together
• have the girls read to me!
• continue reading chapter books together (we are currently in Little Women)
• plant and learn about sunflowers (and the bees that visit them)!
• learn about managing our money with Dave Ramsey and Larry Burkett
• read a Magic Treehouse book each week and learn about whatever topic the book covers
• read and pray through Window on the World, mapping as we go
• read and learn about different animals using Thornton Burgess's Animal Book for Children
• make and enjoy art with The Great Big Art Activity Book
• learn to sew, giving the girls sewing kits and scraps of cloth, like my grandmother did for me, as well as possibly a few machine lessons
• hone some cooking skills by learning to prepare some of their favorite dishes
• lots of nature walks outside!
• movies on Mondays!
• library summer clubs! (even for Liam)
• classes at our local arboretum (even for Liam!)
• summer music camp!
• crafty afternoons!
• play with our neighbors outside in the afternoons!
  

Busy and fun!! Yay for summer!!