My little guy is almost 5 months old and just now I’m starting to feel out of the sleep deprived phase. He’s kind of sleeping through the night now which has helped tremendously! He is starting to play and interact with everyone in the family. It is so fun to see him growing and learning! When he was first born the doctor was concerned about his weight (he was in the 13th percentile). I told her not to worry about it. 😉 Last check up he was in the 59% for weight! So that is a big praise!
Now that many people are pausing for summer break, I feel like we are just starting to get back into the groove! We started a new Bible study with The Picture Smart Bible. My goal this year is for my older children to read through the Bible. The Picture Smart Bible is a Bible study that gives an over-view of each book and uses pictures as a way to help remember details. We have just finished Genesis and am loving the format so far.
My 11yr. old daughter completed her first electronics project from EEME. She was so proud of her accomplishment! I’ll have a full post on the experience next week.
My younger children have been busy working on their own “learning”. My 2yr. old and 4yr. old help me get the gardens ready for planting. I found an opened Sunflower seed packet–so it will be interesting to see where these flowers end up blooming! The girls have also been spending lots of time in the sandbox. We added 27 50# bags of sand! We’ll see how much of that is left at the end of summer. 😉
My 6yr. old has been in full-gear with her school work. We are half-way done with WriteShop A. I really enjoy this writing program. In addition, her reading has really taken off in the last month! We are almost done with All About Reading Level 1. We took a break for a couple of months because she hit a road-block and was just frustrated with reading. We picked it back up about a month ago and she has been flying through! She just needed a little time off and now she is confident in her reading.
I picked up several Kumon activity books for my 2yr. old and 4 yr. old to do this summer. They always want to be doing work when their older siblings are working, so I thought they’d enjoy their own “school books” for the summer. My 4yr. old loves the cutting practice and the number workbook. My 2 yr. old has been doing the sticker workbook and a tracing book. I’m not ready to formal curriculum with them yet, so this works for them in the meantime.
Many of my kids just have a couple of subject areas that they need to complete in order to close out our 2012-2013 school year. My goal is to have any formal work (i.e. math & reading etc.) done by lunch so that we can spend most of our time outside! Of course in order to make this happen, I need to start getting myself and kids up a little earlier! That’s my summer school plan! Will you be schooling through the summer?
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Sounds like a busy household! I had to LOL at the sunflower seeds! It WILL be fun to see where they might have planted them. We don’t school through the summer in the usual sense. We do the library reading program, band for my daughter and sometimes Scout camp for the boys, but otherwise it’s about lazy days of gardening, swimming, playing, kayaking. It keeps us busy enough and this year we REALLY need a break!
Kayaking sounds fun! I hear you on needing a break. We have to go because we took time off when the baby was born. 🙂 Still planning on squeezing in some fun stuff though!
Hi! Yes, we will be informally schooling through the summer. I actually have two weeks with my oldest gone this summer and my youngest involved in some day camps, so this will be a totally new experience for me. 🙂
I am SO GLAD you are starting to get back some sleep. That always wore me down and I felt so much better when everyone was on a schedule.
Enjoy the long weekend — so happy you linked with Collage Friday — AND… the SQUILT book will be coming to you very soon!
Can’t wait to see it Mary!
We school all summer but much less bookwork. We try to travel at least once a month also. Love Kumon for the kids! Enjoy your weekend!
Usually that’s what we do too— more activities and less bookwork. I hope you have safe travels this summer!
We do school all year round but summer tends to find us in outdoor educational pursuits, Canadian winters being what they are!
I’d be interested to hear more about the Write Shop A and how you’re using it. I’ ve been eyeing it for my 5 year old for fall, and we have used older kid versions with my 12 year old over the past couple of years.
When you find out where the sunflower seeds ended up, please get a pic!
Yes we will be homeschooling through the summer as well. I loved the muddy hand pictures. Your little guy is super cute! They grow fast.
Wow! I can’t believe your little guy is already 5 months old! Where does the time go? We’ll be taking 6-8 weeks off for summer break. I think it’s just 6, but I haven’t double-checked that on the calendar yet. After that, we’ll be back to six weeks on/one week off.
I’m hoping we can have a better schedule this year. I like your 6weeks on 1 off. We might try that!
we school year round & try to keep the fun theme going all year too – but especially the summer time! 😉 love love the muddy hand print!
The EEME sounds interesting. We are currently wroking through Snap Circuits but have an Aurdino board to move to over the summer. I am interested in how fast the projects advance in the EEME.
I’ll have a post up this week! They currently only have 2 projects up with 2 almost ready to be presented. The age-range is for kids 7yrs. – 12yrs.