summer schedule

It's summer time in the Crawford home! We're excited for a break from homeschooling. At the same time, I don't really want to just stop learning, if you know what I'm saying! :) So, I had the kids help me come up with a little schedule for us to have a little bit of loosely structured time in the afternoons during the summer.

So from roughly 1:00 to 2:00 this is what is out to play with:

Monday - Math and Bible Trivia (JBQ)

Tuesday - Phonics games and Art

Wednesday - Puzzles and Games

Thursday - Play doh (or other feely things...) and possibly baking!

Friday - Computer learning games and Music (which we really do every day... heh.)

Saturday we go to the orphanage and we decided we'd like to try to write a letter to someone back home on this day, too.

Sunday is, of course, church day!

(Okay, I totally wrote the week out like an Armenian would... starting with Monday! Ha!)

So I've just been putting these things on the table (or on the floor) and it'sbeen an easy and fun way to do "something" and something good, too! The kids have liked it. Then we've also been trying to have quiet time before supper, too. If it's "their day" (they each get one day where they get to do anything helpful or special... make decisions or say prayers, etc...), they get 15-20minutes of their quiet time alone with me. Just to hang out. I really want to spend individual time with them once in a while. So that's been fun, too! Quiet time especially is good for right now since it's been super hot around 4 or 5 in the evenings anyway! They play outside in the morning when it's cooler!

Besides that, our kids have been loving polly pockets, computer games, water stuff outside, playing games with the obsidian rocks around here, writing songs, and recently they've been making up their own pretend countries with maps and flags. Benjamin has even written out his country's history with wars and conquering, etc... I love their imaginations!

We've also been trying to keep up our morning Bible time. We're learning about Paul, finishing memorizing Hebrews 11 and reading Window on the World (which is also great for geography!). Kev reads Narnia after lunch and I just finished reading Harriet Tubman to them at bedtime. Now we just started Marley and Me... a little different story than Harriet Tubman, but still fun... especially since we have our own crazy puppy now!

There you have it. Fun in the summer.

I love that when they're "bored" they go to our homeschooling drawers. Awesome!