Let's Get Summer Started!
We love summer break! I assume that most kids do. Sleeping in and being lazy. No school and no homework. Dance classes and other school year clubs also take a break for summer. More free time. Unfortunately, if we aren't careful then when it's time to go back to school, we'll realize that we wasted our entire summer! Not what I want to find. So we have adopted some great ideas from Pinterest (of course.) We found a fun schedule that has a title for each day of the week. There are lots of different schedules that have different titles. You can pick the one that works the best for you and your kids needs. The one we use is found here. We have tweaked it a little to fit our lifestyle and this is what we ended up with.
So usually we make a craft of some type on Mondays. My daughter loves to craft and is always making things. The difference on Monday though is that I do it with her. We have fun and she enjoys spending one on one time with me. On Tuesdays we sometimes make cookies or try a new treat recipe. Sometimes we even make dinner together. I let her pick. Although I do sometimes direct her to easier recipes. On Wednesdays we do something water related. It could be swimming or water balloons in the back yard or anything in between. However it can also mean that we do a science project with water. Thinking Thursdays can be doing science projects or reading a book together or writing a book together. Anything that we need to use our brains for counts. Fridays are just for fun. Maybe she'll have a friend over. Maybe we'll go for a bike ride or walk or even just play a board game together. Sometimes she wants to make another project again. We look for ideas on Pinterest and find things that we want to do together. In the end though I really want her to take the lead. It's a good life skill.
This schedule works for us. We usually pick what we want to do for the week on Sunday afternoons. That way I can make sure that we have what we need and my daughter knows that since there is a plan we will follow through. It makes our summer life feel like we have accomplished a lot, had fun and made memories. And isn't that what summer is all about?
Our Summer Schedule
Make it Monday - craft projects
Tasty Tuesday - find and make recipes that kids can make alone.
Water Wednesday - water games, swimming, water projects, anything to do with water
Thinking Thursday - science projects, read-a-thons, anything that uses your brain
Fun Friday - friends, bike rides, trips, anything that is fun
So usually we make a craft of some type on Mondays. My daughter loves to craft and is always making things. The difference on Monday though is that I do it with her. We have fun and she enjoys spending one on one time with me. On Tuesdays we sometimes make cookies or try a new treat recipe. Sometimes we even make dinner together. I let her pick. Although I do sometimes direct her to easier recipes. On Wednesdays we do something water related. It could be swimming or water balloons in the back yard or anything in between. However it can also mean that we do a science project with water. Thinking Thursdays can be doing science projects or reading a book together or writing a book together. Anything that we need to use our brains for counts. Fridays are just for fun. Maybe she'll have a friend over. Maybe we'll go for a bike ride or walk or even just play a board game together. Sometimes she wants to make another project again. We look for ideas on Pinterest and find things that we want to do together. In the end though I really want her to take the lead. It's a good life skill.
This schedule works for us. We usually pick what we want to do for the week on Sunday afternoons. That way I can make sure that we have what we need and my daughter knows that since there is a plan we will follow through. It makes our summer life feel like we have accomplished a lot, had fun and made memories. And isn't that what summer is all about?
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