Weekly Report - Summer Break

We're taking a summer break... for 2 weeks most likely. I don't think I could break much longer than that. :P This week, Tornado Boy has had Cub Scout Day Camp, so he's been busy, dirty, and tired. :)

I have been making lesson plans, making narration pages, etc. I have SOTW1 completely planned out and entered into HST+. Phew! Now to start SOTW2. Ha! We won't be there until October, so I can do it a little bit at a time. :) I have made narration pages for the rest of WWE1 also. I still need to make lesson plans for art and literature/poetry. I have purchased several books for literature, and I'm going to plan them out this time around. I hope to do some narrations on the lit each week. I'm adding in poetry, since Tornado Boy said he likes poetry. I am using the recommendations from the Core Knowledge Sequence. They have lesson plans available on the Baldwin Project, so I can do a few things with the poetry. I think he'll like my plans.

For art, I've purchased Usborne Art Treasury and Evan Moor's How to Teach Art to Children. I plan to make some lessons using those, and still intermix the Draw Write Now book we have. That should give us enough to do for the years.

Next week, I have planned to declutter the house some, as well as finish working on lesson plans. I'll have all the kids home, so we'll see how all that goes. The following week, we're planning to start school back up, but we're also going to have swim lessons for 4 days, so we may be doing half school that week. I just don't want to take too much time off, or getting started again will be a bear!