Summer School? You bet!

We decided that since we love to learn, and because really, the learning never stops, that we were going to keep up our routine over the summer months and still do 'formal seat work' in our homeschooling.  One exciting thing, is that Outdoor Boy is also going to officially start joining us.  He is really growing up!

I thought I would give a little glimpse into our daily routines and see what we have been studying this week.  In addition to all the interesting life stuff as well.

Here is Outdoor Girl doing some reading (while we crossing the Strait of Juan de Fuca).

This is the cover of the summer reading log that she has started.  She is so, so excited to participate.  Outdoor Boy is also doing one, but you can tell he is just doing it because his older sister is as well.  We are not going to be here long, but in the four days that she has been enrolled she has managed to complete 6 of the challenges, and received a new Rainbow Fairy Book!!!  As well as a grab bag, shave ice, flexible flier, and other stuff - how is it all going to fit into her room?  I don't know.

We decided to take an inter-island ferry one day.  It goes around to Orcas, Shaw, Lopez, and Friday Harbor and is free to go around the circuit on.  One of the things they enjoyed was doing puzzles that are set up at the tables that anyone can help put together.  This one they finished, you can see another one in the background of the second picture while they decided to take a break and work on writing (Outdoor Girl) and math (Outdoor Boy).  We were waiting for loading and unloading and not moving was not quite as exciting on the ferry as being underway.

Here they are working on some math, learning about square numbers.  And the best part - mini chocolate chips!  They were so funny.  I told them they had to wait till we were done to eat them, and that they could only eat those that they made a square with.  At the end we didn't have enough blocks to make a complete square, so they came up with the idea of putting the chocolate chips where they would be as if we had enough squares to finish so that they could eat more.

Cheers,
Outdoor Mom