Summer

Hard to believe we are almost 1 month into our summer break.  I thought I would do a post about what summer looks like here.  As far as school stuff we go pretty light.  I do encourage N. to do 1/2 hour of reading a day, he is in the library reading program so that is good incentive.  S. is reading some on her own.

For S. the big thing I have her doing is working on more ACT prep books so she can retake it in the fall.  Her score was very good, but I think she can bring her English up a little bit. 

For N. he rotates off on different days working on a typing program, doing math using Khan Academy, some handwriting practice and watching Discovery Streaming videos of his choice.  He is also working on a 500 word essay that he has to write in order to get his karate black belt.  He is doing this fairly independently, something I never thought he would do.

As far as fun things we did this for vacation and had so much fun.

N. and I are volunteering at the animal shelter and S. is working hard at her job at Chik fil a.  They also both volunteered at VBS at church and are doing other mission type work days with the youth group and of course the highlight of summer is church camp. 

We will start school back on Aug. 20th but until then they are enjoying every minute of summer while I busily plan for next school year.