I've been thinking about this lately. Summer is so short. We generally spend the summer doing various outdoor activities (track and field course for 2hrs/day for 2weeks, then soccer practice 2hrs/day for 2 weeks), then a one week trip somewhere and it seems summer is over. We do lots of nature study and playing games. But I'm currently researching various homeschooling philosophies and really want to get to how things were before DS went to school. Learning happened anytime. Summer, fall, winter, evenings, weekends. Once school started, *learning* became relegated to school time. Now that we're not schooling any longer, I'm wondering what summer will look like. I'd like to continue w/ history during the summer to get DS5 caught up to where DS8 is in Ancients so we can then move forward together. DS8 is homeschooled this year but DS5 went to K but will be coming this year. I'd like to visit historic places near where we live and learn about that time in history. Just make learning a part of life. Also, the boys are really getting into board games which take a long time to play like Parthenon (they played for over 3hrs last week), Risk, Cataan etc so we'll definitely do more of that now that we'll have long stretches of time. So while we won't do business as usual, I think I'll try to get some stuff done, perhaps a fun lapbook on ANcient Eygpt that everyone in the family contributes, math games to keep those math facts sharp, etc....or perhaps we'll just do nothing. 8-)
