A Little Rebellion Every Now & Then

We’re on a very light summer schedule for school now. Gillian has various camps this week and the next two, as well, but I still think it’s quite doable. It was this morning, at least - less than one hour, before she went to camp. After she gets home and has a snack, we’ll read and listen to her Spanish practice tape.

So what are we doing for summer school?

Daily, we’re

• Finishing The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading;
• Continuing onwards in First Language Lessons: Levels 1 & 2;
• Doing copywork;
• Completing Time, Money, and Fractions & Developmental Math: Level 2, as well as working in various discount-store-type workbooks; as the summer progresses, we’ll do some work in Developmental Math: Level 4 and Level 8, and start Miquon Blue, if she wants.

Apart from that, we’re still doing La Clase Divertida (slowly but surely), we’ll keeping reading our chapter book, she’ll practice reading, we’ll read picture books to her, and we’ll do some activities out of Building Thinking Skills: Primary at least once or twice a week.

It’s enough to keep our minds engaged, I figured, while also giving us a bit of a break. There’s no pressure to get specific books out of the library (on this animal or that animal, or because my schedule said we should check out this book this particular week). I wasn’t even going to keep First Language Lessons in the mix, but the time committment is minimal, and I don’t want her to forget the poems and definitions she’s memorized.

Only problem there, of course, is that we’ll finish FLL not at the exact end of first grade, as I had thought we might, but approximately halfway through first grade. I don’t think the next level of FLL will be out by then. Soo I guess we’ll start Growing With Grammar. It doesn’t involve a lot of copywork, and if the author stays anywhere near her projected schedule, I don’t have to worry about running out of books to use anytime soon.