The other part of me (the part that never really accepts that I’m a grown, married woman with 3 kids) want to lounge around all summer near a swimmable body of water with a good book and get annoyed when my kids want my attention. Moms should get summer break too, right?
Well just in case the responsible “me” shows up before school’s officially out for the summer, I checked out these from our local library…
Last summer we did Science Through Literature. This summer (after checking out all these books) I decided to let PJ decide our “theme.” Using ideas from a new model of education Patrick and I previewed last week, I will plan hopefully painless learning activities around our theme. We talked about using sports, gardening, robotics, cultures and number of other things. He settled on cooking and baking. I’m excited because I can also throw in garden stuff and cultural stuff and he’s excited because he’ll probably finally get permission to use the toaster oven this summer.
Some of the ideas I’m tossing around for the cooking / baking theme are:
What else would you do?
My plan is to blog what we do and learn as we go along. I’m kinda excited (except when I think about prepping and occupying the little guys).
What are you and your kids doing this summer?
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