We're now homeschoolers, but follow our charter's traditional schedule with full academics. We try to use summer as a time for exploring different things and spending as much time as we can with our "age peer" friends since DS5 doesn't see them as much during the school year. We'll be busy in swimming lessons, a drawing camp (learning how to draw Star Wars figures), a "crazy" science camp, and vacation bible school (all w/ friends to make it more fun!). We're also planning some fun "field trip type" trips w/ cousins & grandparents. Meanwhile, we've got video recorders and arts out and are making movies and camps in our backyard and things like that. Oh, and of course books are everywhere. IMO, these are all equally educational as core curriculum, but use different skill-sets than what we're studying during the school year to keep him from getting burnt out.
The only other thing I do is pull out math games about once a week. While DS2 is in swimming lessons, DS5 and I play memory multiplication or other games out of Rightstart C. Again, though, we're doing math in a way that is different than what we work on throughout the normal school year.
Last edited by gratefulmom; 06/15/10 12:34 PM.
