As we prepared for our move and our family vacation at the end of May, we took "summer vacation" early. My daughter was excited to have time off from school. Of course, that only meant from our traditional daily curriculum. Sometimes she doesn't even KNOW when she is learning! Don't you love that? When you sneak in the learning?
After a wonderful time on vacation and getting over some illness, we got back to work what I call "school lite." We subscribe to year-round school but a break now and then can be good. We ended our school break with attendance at the Indiana Homeschool Convention.
Then it was back to school time. This summer we have six weeks of drama camp, a literacy through theatre program, swim lessons, and traditional YMCA camp so we have definitely have our plate full this summer, but we still get in our learning time most days.
Each day we do at least the "three R's" and since we are participating in the our library's summer reading program, we usually use our library books for our reading time. Our rule is that Avarie reads one book to me and then I read one or two (or three or four) to her. She is doing so well with her reading so that has been great this summer.
Avarie enjoys the MATH MADE EASY books so we do a few pages in the book as our summer math. We will take back up our formal Math program after our summer schedule winds down. As long as we do some math most days, I know we aren't going backwards.
We also do writing most days. We do this either through copywork, creative writing or our handwriting program. I usually let Avarie decide which she wants to do. She usually pick Handwriting, which I find interested.
We have supplemented our summer learning with an Explode the Code book, Speekee TV trial run of a Spanish program, and the review section of our All About Spelling book. As I am finalizing our fall curriculum, we are trying a few things and making decisions on courses and subjects. It has been fun.
And since Avarie has started piano lessons, she gets some time to practice most days. It's a full summer but not terribly stringent. She is doing well and we are having fun. And there has been plenty of time for walks and bike rides to the park (I even got a bike wtih a baby seat for this year) and nature walks, which Avarie loves. What a great time!
