Summer is here...

Oh boy summer is here and we need to move into new routines.  It has been nice not to have to do school, that takes up about 3-4 hours of my day.  But now what to do with those 3-4 hours, it is a new schedule!  Doing summer I allow them to play video games doing the day time.  Good for the bid kids, little kids don't understand.  So on to the list of things to do with my little ones!!!  As I get us back on track we will share the things we do.  My weekly menus will get on track next week.  

100 Things to do With the Kids this Summer

I want summer time to be fun and exciting for my kids. The challenge is the different ages I have.  Something the 3 year olds would like to do is not what my 8 & 15 want to do.  So I made a list of 100 things to do with my kids.  Not each one will do a 100 things because not each thing is for all of them.  Some are and some are not.  So here it is...

100 things to do this summer:

1. Goto Space and Rocket center
2. Swim as much as they can
3. Go on a hike
4. Explore Burritt on the Mountain Museum
5. Goto the Cathedral caverns
6. Go fishing
7. Go camping
8. Explore 3 national parks
9. Goto St. Lousis
10. Goto early works
11. Visit the Amish
12. Go to the zoo
13. Go see Civil War places
14. Go canoeing
15. Go white water rafting
16. Goto Dentist
17. Run through the sprinklers
18. Catch lighting bugs
19. Grow a garden
20. Grow flowers
21. Goto the movies
22. Goto the library
23. Play catch 
24. Kick a soccer ball
25. Goto a football game
26. Play baseball
27. Play basket ball
28. Got to Disney World
29. Goto a water park
30. Play miniature golf
31. Goto Six Flags
32. See a water fall
33. Make a play
34. Swing
35. Look at the clouds
36. Go on a picnic
37. Make a sand castle
38. Go for ice cream in PJ’s
39. Make corn starch glob
40. make an in door fort
41. Make a writing journal
42. Practice math
43. Have a bike parade 
44. Sing a song in church
45. Go Geocatching
46. Go to a farm
47. Go to a farmers market
48. Go on bike rides
49. Build a go kart
50. Explode a can of coke with mentos
51. Go to the arcade
52. Goto a new movie
53. Get a tan
54. Volunteer somewhere like the local animal shelter
55. Cook dinner for someone
56. Tie die shirts
57. Make stepping stones
58. Play a new board game
59. Play a new video game
60. Clean our rooms
61. Make root bear floats
62. Sew a dress
63. Make your own popsicles
64. Draw with chalk on the sidewalk
65. Put together a jigsaw puzzle
66. Make play dough
67. Each kid cook dinner
68. Learn origami 
69. Learn how to do a magic trick
70. Blow bubbles
71. Go horse back riding
72. Wash the car
73. Set off fireworks
74. Goto a planetarium  
75. Take pictures
76. Make a summer scrap book
77. Goto a concert 
78. Make a lemonade stand
79. Find a fossil
80. Write a letter
81. Watch birds
82. Adopt a pet
83. Learn how to play chess
84. Make a large checker board
85. Jump on a trampoline
86. Go sailing
87. Goto the coke cola museum
88. Go out with daddy
89. Go out with mommy
90. Goto VBS
91. Make a bracelet
92. Have a sleep over
93. Plan a BBQ for friends
94. Read books
95. Talk on the phone
96. Walk in grass barefoot
97. Goto a park
98. Make ice cream
99. Take a Sunday Drive
100. Sleep in

Almost to an end!

Well 5 more weeks and we will be done with homeschooling and school!! Yea!!! We are so much looking forward to summer!!!

Jeremy our oldest has almost made it through 9th grade. He is in the need to get some grades up, but he is going to tutoring and working on getting missed assignments made up. Next year he is going to tec school to learn how to cook. I am very much looking forward to this.

Robby is finishing up his class work!! This year he is reading!! It is so exciting to hear him read with out sounding out each word. He loves to read to the kids and he is reading chapter books. We studied the space and planets this year. Math he conquered Multiplication!! Writing, spelling, a little latin, music, art, the list goes on!!! Hard to believe that soon I will have a 3rd grader!!!

AnQuenette is doing fine. She is always singing or dancing! She goes to our CDC at our church 3 days a week. She loves her friends which is why I kept her there this year. She loves to play with her brothers.

Isaiah is into everything. We just got over having a bandage stuck up his nose. So with him you never know what is going to happen!! He is home with me everyday and loves being with Robby. He is very lost with out his siblings!!!

Ms. Leila our sweet one year old foster daughter is into everything. When she wants something she lets you know!! She has discovered the toilet and tries very hard to get into it when ever someone goes potty!

And so we soon close up this school year and look forward to summer days of exploring, lazyness, swimming and a little traveling!! And before we know it it will be time for school again!!!!