We do school year round, but our summer months are much more unschool-ish. Recently my oldest son spent 3 weeks in the hospital with severe pneumonia so we had our 5 year old granddaughter 24/7. It's more of a challenge to have her, and fully integrate her into our family overall...planning meals is more challenging (She eats as much as any of the adults in the house!), we only have so many of her clothes so we have to do laundry a bit more often (every day pretty much), and she is learning to read. So none of the "older kid" research ideas work for her. She has to be paired with myself, or one of the older children for any and all school work. She is home now, and happy to sleep in her own bed, I imagine! We are all happy her Daddy is on the mend and home again.
I picked up August's monthly Teacher's Book Bag. The theme is The Sun, Seasons and Solar System. It sounded fun, since there are several summery/sun projects. I wish we had light sensitive paper! I am not even sure where one buys that. We have recently switched from lapbooking to notebooking. Maybe it would more accurately be called "Lapbooking in a notebook", lol. So yesterday we took advantage of some of the school supply sales and picke dup some folders (the kind with pockets and brads) for our next few until studies. We learned a great deal about the sun yesterday. It was more interesting than expected for both Artkitty and I, and just as interesting as I expected for Bouncyboy! =)
Today we will be looking at Earth's relationship to the sun, and possibly the Solar System...I haven't totally decided yet since I don't want sit down school work to last more than an hour, 2 at most so we can do more projects and fun stuff!!
Next month we will start our Oklahoma unit! Woot!
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