Summer Learning

21 years ago

How are you planning to spend your summer? How are you involving your children? We will have our granddaughter over for this week. She is looking forward to picking blackberries and going to Vacation Bible School. She may even get to work in Pappaw's garden. She loves the country and has been looking forward to coming to see her grandparents and to get to spend the week.

I would encourage visiting the library weekly. Take trips and visit many places of interest and really have a good time of relaxing and enjoying people and places.

Hoping you have a fun filled learning good summer.

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trekaren
21 years ago
Planning a trip to Chattanooga to see the aquarium and children's museum.
Have season tickets to Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts, so she'll be going to all the shows.

Library reading club and Zany Brainy reading club.
We also turn every day experiences into learning opportunities. Yesterday at the pool she experimented with what floats and what doesn't, and why her yellow swim noodle looks green when underwater and the bluish water casts tones on it.
Mommabear
21 years ago
We will be visiting my parents/inlaws in NY for a month. After that the kids are going to day camp. They are kids and are going to enjoy playing sports, swimming, and doing other kid things. They have plenty of school years in front of them so we don't push school stuff on them in the summer. My oldest likes to read and he reads for pleasure on his own every day.

We don't make a special effort to go to "educational" places. We try to do what TREKaren suggests and turn everyday experiences into learning opportunities so its hard to say now what those opportunities will be.

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I had an ephiphany this week! My husband was brought up much differently than I was! His mom (a schoolteacher) didn't want to "be bothered" with her kids in the summer & sent them to grandma's as soon as school was out, so she could do "her thing" in the summer. I've never understood his resentment (mild) at the time I spend on DD's activities every summer until now.
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