We went on vacation for week 5 so week 4 was mostly getting ready to go.  However, we did fit it  -

Family Picnic and Nature Walk - The goal was to find three yellow things (three different flowers), three red things (found a wild strawberry and a red stem on a weed), and three blue things (the sky, the reflection of the sky in the stream).  We decided that maybe somewhere in the park had been a cardinal and a blue jay, so that would finish out our list.  We went on a small hike also after we found our items.  We all tried humuus for the first time and decided we liked it.

Science - We read Octopuses by Sandra Markle.  This is the next one in the prey series, although we have read that octopuses are both predator and prey.  I also told him that the more common plural of octopus is octopi.

Reading - Spent a few days reading Dr. Seuss' One Fish Two Fish.

We went to Myrtle Beach for our vacation and took 2 days getting there and two days back.  We listened to The Mouse and The Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary.  I started reading The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth at bedtime each night and got about halfway through.  We all are really enjoying this story about a special egg that hatches out of a small town hen.

During the car trip, I had a bag of tricks that S dubbed the "surprise bag".  In it I had a maze book, a sticker book, a coloring book, a read to yourself book, some markers, a plain notepad, two toy cars and some snacks.  I could have done with more, but he really did well with the trip.

We all loved our vacation week, but mostly we just had fun.  S practiced his swimming and I taught him to open his eyes underwater.  Hubby and S found some cool shells, including one that still had the dead animal attached.  We went to a privately owned zoo with some interesting animals including several babies.  Whenever we see a baby animal, S adds it to "his baby collection".  I don't necessarily take pictures of all of them, so I this is a collection he keeps mostly in his head, but he can rattle off the animals in this collection pretty well.  For me the best part was the Lazy River at our resort.  I love these things...they are so peaceful.

S starts camp next week (T/W/Th 9:30 - 1:30), so probably the only "school" I will get back into with him is reading/phonics, as well as good lit/poetry for bedtime reading.  I may be gearing up to try a weather lapbook the following week.  At least I've been gathering books and materials.  I won't press it if he is not interested, but I think he might like it.