Thinking Outside the Box Meme -summer stuff

This week's question has to do with what we are doing for summer...schooling all year or what...so here is my Reader's Digest answer:

we are on break until late July (we have been off 2 weeks and it feels good) but are participating in the library's summer reading program and the Splish program thru TOS. We are busy reorganizing our play area, being entertained by the Mallards who show up quite frequently in our yard (named George and Gracie), exploring the areas around here and looking for critters (altho it has been difficult due to the cooler weather [no pollywogs yet] and the rain) and just hanging. We are off to the DC area for almost 2 weeks mid-July, so we'll be doing some major historical exploration and art museums. When we return-it will be back to about 4-6 boxes (mainly continuing the reading/spelling and basic math) until mid-Aug. when we start at full capacity. We cannot really do any school breaks anymore-too much info lost, I am on the TOS review crew, so we have those items to try out, and I like to take a good stretch of time off, during the Christmas season, and early spring. SO to make a long story even longer-we are not really doing the boxes right now-I am working on all sorts of games/folders for them and we're just taking a breather.

Here is one project I just wrapped up (outside of getting velcro dots on the cards)to use when we start our weather center/study in August. We'll be doing the lapbook for The Bravest of Us All (I submitted it to HSS so it should be posted soon) and general weather experiments, books and weather watching. This will be his daily activity to record what is happening outside. I chose to laminate it to cardstock, put a couple of the pocket envies (dollar store find) for the pieces, and then tape it together to fold up all nice and spiffy like. I found this activity for $2.50 on Homeschooling with Index Cards (weather center). I messed up a bit and had to cut/retape, so I am missing one strip of record keeping sections-but it was something we could do without-so anyhoo...there you have it. That is a great site by the way. Cheap to buy and easy to print. There are a lot of freebies in the notebooking and freebies section too.










Now starting next week, I have this meme until August-so please stop back here each Monday for a new topic to discuss. I look forward to hosting this! Have a great week! To link back to Gabby's blog for this week's question-go to The Work of Childhood.