Enrichment for Summer

This summer I plan to have roughly an hour of enrichment for the children in the mornings.   This is geared toward early elementary but plan for my younger ones to tag along.  I want this time to be fun!  Living books, fun writing activities, math games, and learning about courage. On my quest to plan out this time, I found some amazing free resources and wanted to share.  I catered these plans to my children’s gifts, areas that need improvement, and enrichment.  We also hope to teach bravery and courage through stories, so I will start the time by reading some tales about the Vikings and then about Christian martyrs. 

Start by reading tales of bravery and manhood of Vikings to older children: https://archive.org/details/vikingtales00lambgoog and then the book of martyrs https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=QEcLSqCYi18C&lpg=PP1&dq=trial+and+triumph+by+richard+hannula&pg=PP1&redir_esc=y&hl=tr#v=onepage&q&f=false

Rising third grader goals: writing poetry, loving reading, math, thinking activities

Read 20 minutes of a book of his choice, do one day of the reading, math, and thinking section on ‘all in one homeschool site’ for 3rd grade https://allinonehomeschool.com/third/

extra: break the code https://code.org/learn (great get that mind working activity)

Other things to incorporate with writing:

 http://www.walkingbytheway.com/blog/inspire-writing-in-your-homeschool/ (This site has incredibly easy and fun ways to teach poetry! This site is amazing!)

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/diamante/

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/haiku/

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/Word_Mover/

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/Word_Mover/

Rising first grader goals:  handwriting, reading, and math

read 15-20 minutes with me (he reads a sentence and then I read one and back and forth until becomes second natue), math on ‘easy peasy all in one homeschool site’ each day for rising 1^st grader https://allinonehomeschool.com/first-grade/ ,

copy work each day https://allinonehomeschool.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/language-arts-1-tracing.pdf

Other: Read poetry to him from library: Poetry: http://www.walkingbytheway.com/blog/10-favorite-poetry-books-for-children/

Rest hours: 

We require all children to rest for two hours.  For the boys who do not nap, this means structured rest time.  The first hour they can draw, play leggos, or read.   The second hour they will listen to a story online/ audible.com.  Here are some suggestions: http://www.walkingbytheway.com/blog/audio-books-homeschool/  There are also suggestions directly below. 

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Read aloud suggestions by my sister the book guru:

Roald Dahl, Beverly Cleary, CS Lewis, Hobbit

Here's a list of books I have either read with the boys or want to:

1. Mr. Popper's Penguins. LOVE this one.

2. Indian In the Cupboard

3. Boxcar Children series

4. Black Beauty for Mead!!!!

5. Sideways Stories from Wayside School (do you remember these from growing up?)

6. Little House on the Prairie series

7. Hardy Boys

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As for books, off the top of my head:

1. Roald Dahl is one of our current favorites. the BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach...

2. The Hobbit.

3. Chronicles of Narnia. The boys always come back to these... have listened to them SO many times!!

4. Charlotte's Web (the boys will like too)

5. The Magic Tree House series... all will love. Jack and Annie go on adventures and the kids learn history, etc. STELLAR!

6. Henry Huggins (and other Beverly Cleary)

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