I have used year-round home-schooling for several years. There are some awesome reasons for doing it-one of them being continuous learning. Summer education can be light, but very useful.
This summer I am having the boys continue with math, but dropping all other formal curriculum. They will still be doing language arts and learning an assortment of themes, but it will be accomplished differently.
They have joined the summer reading program at our local public library, and are reading books from a reading list that I created. I require them to read 45 minutes per day, and I am also having each one of them complete a form I prepared, summarizing what they have read.
Just a few goodies from the summer reading program. There was also a beanbag ball; it's around here somewhere. They love doing this. It gives the boys and me a lot of opportunities for some free/cheap dates together.
Justin and Jonathan are reading the same books and completing the same forms.
Justin's summary:
Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand
Jonathan's summary:
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
Ryan is completing a different book list and form. He narrates what he has read to me, and then I create a cursive writing practice sheet using his narration.
Ryan's narration below -handwriting part not completed yet- from Treasures of the Snow by Patricia St. John:
I used this site to create the cursive writing practice sheet:
Here are Justin and Jonathan's first batch of library books from my list. I was so thankful that the library carried these titles:
