We’ve wrapped up our year, and though we will be taking it easy this summer, there are a few things we’ll be working on so as to not go completely brain-dead this summer. In the past I’ve had better plans (like last year’s Calendar Quest study, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants a broad overview of history using something we can all relate to: the calendar), but this year with our upcoming arrival, it’s just going to be a bit loosey-goosey around here.
So… here’s the plan:
Typing Practice
Dancemat Typing and/or Typing.com.
Math Fact Practice through Games
Geography
Seterra Software (free download or online version) (1 continent/week for Stephen)
Sheppard Software (for David and Levi). Sheppard Software has many other games, including math practice, science, and preschool to name a few!
Spelling Review
Spelling City (to review spelling words)
English Grammar: Parts of Speech review
Grammaropolis (Also available as an iPad app; Noun study is free)
Latin
Reading
- Levi: Assorted picture books and Starfall
- David: Imagination Station series, and read picture books to Levi
- Stephen: Selections from the following (some are Challenge level books, which we’ll re-read again when he gets to Challenge), and read picture books to Levi
All: Finish Story of the World Volume 4 audio. Listen to Sugar Creek Gang series (again. They ask to listen to this set of 36 books repeatedly.) Read selections from Book of Virtues.
Booklogs: We choose to reward our boys for reading a specific number of books by getting them… another book! This usually is pretty exciting for them, as they really like earning the chance to get a LEGO book!
- Our own personal book log (probably the most boring one on the world wide web, but I prefer a simple format that uses less ink!)
- Notebooking Fairy’s Reading Log
- K12 Reading Logs
- ABC Teach Reading Logs
Writing
Family Fiction (primarily Stephen)
History
- Homeschool in the Woods American Revolution Study
- Homeschool in the Woods New World Explorers
- Homeschool in the Woods Colonial Life
A few board games
Many of the on-line web interactives listed above have iPad versions also available. We have some additional iPad games (like Stack the States & Stack the Countries, My Incredible Body, Brainfeed, Hooked on Phonics, etc.), but if you have some favorite apps, we’d love for you to leave a comment for us to check it out this summer!
Since it’s not usually an issue to get our children to play on-line games (and they’ve asked to do the other things listed here!), this is our plan for a less-stress summer – and a less-stress startup next school year!