Summer Term

Learnin’ needn’t cease entirely simply because of the tilt & rotation of the earth ’round the sun. I find it easier to keep some educational momentum going with our homeschool studies by following an abbreviated schedule during summer months: Heavy reading, light math, loads of field trips and hands-on backyard science projects, regular library trips, sneaky writing (pen-pal correspondence, thank-you notes, & journaling), and plenty of fresh air & rigorous activity in nature…

Hatching sea monkeys–

Willamette Valley Pie Co. tour–

Babysitting Certification Class–

Independence Day, wherein these patriots memorized the Preamble to the Constitution–

Pet-Sitting–

Theatre auction dinner & musical performance–

Morning gratitude journals & memory verses–

Visual Aids–

Zoo Day–

Tillamook Cheese Factory tour–

Portland Asian Market–

Light manual labor–

That one day we had goats–

Center Sister attended a Broadway play with pals–

Mao (“cat” in mandarin) getting nails done & then retaliating by locking us out of the house–

Save the Manatee Club recognition–

Field trip to local koi farmer–

Backyard lesson on solar energy–

7 Eleven Slurpee Day–

Parky Parks–

Miscellaneous–

 

Gosh, I love summer.