my4sweetums - Our Summer Plans....

Jun. 4, 2009

Our Summer Plans....

Our summer plans for $70 or less.... I want to really find as much free fun this summer so that we can quickly empty our credit card again. After 2 years of having no credit card debt, several situations all at once forced us to end up with close to $1000 on our credit card. I want it gone by September! We will be cutting corners all over the place to make this happen. So we will be having as fun and as cheap as possible summer. Why $70 you say? That is what came in a check of forgotton earned money last week. So here is my overall plan.

First, we will continue learning time and tea time each day. For learning time, the kids will be working in their summer workbooks (I tore up old workbooks and put them in a three ring binder in accordance with each child's weaknesses), play lots of learning games and continue reading lessons.

Do ignore the chocolate on dd's face. We worked on writing our address in chocolate soy whip cream right after breakfast!

I picked up most of these games from back-to-school sales at Walmart last year. The kids love them.

We will also be doing a one day unit study for Flag Day, a study of butterflies vs. moths, and whatever other rabbit trails my kiddos lead me down. LOL!

For tea time we are reading ~

Our next book will be Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.

We will also be playing outside a lot doing this~

and catching things like this to study~

I have a long list of out of the home activities~

library programs
adoption play group, which will be meeting at parks in our area
our local lake with beach ~ $20 for one month unlimited admittance
art museum on free day (first Wednesday of the month)
nature center ~ free to us since Timothy volunteers there
North Carolina Arboretum ~ free on Tuesdays
Fun Depot ~ an arcade and fun center ~ I have a great coupon for $10 free play time when you spend $10
free Red Cross swimming lessons for Goldilocks at the end of June
Botanical Gardens with awesome stream to play in ~free
Montreat park which the kids call the waterfall playground because it is surrounded by mini waterfalls
hikes along the Blue Ridge Parkway
ice Cream out at night ~ when it is dark~ my kids love dark summer nights ~ $15
Fourth of July downtown ~ free
fireflies and toasted marshmellows
free movie camp ~ we can make it to most of the 8 weeks of movies
Children's Museum on free day
berry picking ~ only cost is the price of the berries
Chuckie Cheese ~ just for the games and rides ~ I'll watch for a great coupon on the internet that will make it an afternoon of fun for $10 (only if our adoption group goes there one day) .
movie night at home once a week with movies from library or Redbox ~ $1 to free

Lastly, we will be concentrating on the garden and doing chores with a happy spirit! This is more challenging for one than for the others. Anyhoo! we will muddle on with the chores thing. They will all have good work ethic by the time they are grown up -- even if it kills me!

So what are you all doing this summer? To see more great Show and Tells, hop over to www.homeschoolblogger.com/canadagirl.

Blessings,

Dawn

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