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Our summer schedule is already pretty full with church camps, soccer camps, weddings, and such. But I still need to plan ahead for what we're going to do on those off days. I've learned that if I don't plan something, it won't happen spontaneously. And I really don't want my kids sitting around all day complaining about being bored.
I was super-excited when I saw this post at MoneySavingMom.com about free and inexpensive summer activities. It lists everything from reading rewards programs (we'll be participating in the Half-Price Books Feed Your Brain program), to inexpensive movies, and a number of free activities. It's exactly the kind of list I was looking for.
What activities do you and your children participate in during the summertime to keep busy?
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School! But we also do the Half Price Books reading pgrm and maybe the program at our library and church library.
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We enjoy a relaxed schedule during the summer, though like you, I have found that we still need some sort of structure. We keep the daily routine of our morning prayer journals and Bible reading, though it tends to be a bit later than during the school year. We also keep up our music lessons and daily practices. Otherwise, I encourage the kids to make a list of the things they would like to learn about or investigate over the summer. My nine-year-old daughter's list includes making invisible ink, studying flies, and listening to Classics For Kids (www.classicsforkids.com). My five-year-old son plans to design and build an Iron Man costume after helping his daddy clean out the garage. We attend park days with our co-op friends. The local library has an excellent summer reading program. I also use the break to reorganize and take care of some larger household projects that I don't have time for during the school year. Of course, that is in addition to church camps, vacations, our annual Independence Day celebration, and lots of time spent riding bikes and playing games outside.
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We keep the exact same schedule over the summer that we do during the rest of the year except that we switch our morning walk and time at the park to the evening when it's cooler. We switch to a new subject in summer for the new school year. My kids are itching to start on earth science. They can't wait! But they'll have to for another couple weeks.
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We switch up our schedule some for the summer. We try to include some of the kids my children play with since they are out of school. I just did a whole post on Summer camp at home. It might give you some other ideas of things to do with your family.
http://freetolearnanlovinit.blogspot.com/2010/05/summer-camp-home.html
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We are super-busy in June with swim team, VBS, summer camp, and getting together with friends. We are also participating in both Borders' and Barnes & Noble's summer reading challenges. In July and August, we trade in our busy-ness for relaxing at the lake — a totally different lifestyle. But we keep reading!
Also, we're going to do a bit of math every day to keep up the girls' skills.
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The real question is…What do we NOT do? LOL! Our oldest two (DD and DS1) will continue with Tae Kwon Do and piano lessons (when they're in town) and will have one week each (different weeks) at church camp. DD and I will also spend one week at a Christian Camp for girls. We'll all be going to a 3-day Christian lectureship in Nashville, TN, which includes a lots of classes for the adults, a Teen Track and "Day Camp" for the younger kids. Immediately afterward, the kids and I will spend about a week with my parents (who live an hour away from Nashville). DH will only be there for a couple of days, as he is traveling to and from Nashville with an elderly friend. We also have a wedding to attend (this weekend) a family and a ladies only party (celebrating the new baby in our extended family). Our youngest (DS2) will also have activities like day camp (for art) and a few other things here and there. He wants to go to a first-timers Christian camp (2 1/2 days), but we're not for sure on that yet. Some friend of ours, a missionary family of 8, will be in the states all summer. They MAY get to spend one night with us while traveling from PA to GA, but it is possible that we may meet up with them somewhere, if our schedules ever mesh. When we're NOT doing all of that, we'll be doing schoolwork.
PHEW! I am tired already! ;oP
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We plan to continue with schooling through the summer. We will take a slightly relaxed approach. I plan to have the children play math games on the computer to keep up their math skills. We will be doing lot of reading. For science and life skill my children will help out in the garden.
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