1st week of summer!

I gave each of the kids an opportunity to pick a subject they would like to learn about and we are taking turns spending time learning all kinds of things about that subject. Jackson picked lava, fire, and electricity. Zoey picked rainbows, clouds, and the ocean. Eli picked building, bugs, and fire too. They also spend time writing in a summer journal each day and a summer school workbook.

We started with rainbows and have incorporated rainbows into our daily summer schedule that worked so well for us last year:
We have "Mom store Monday" where they redeem there tickets from doing chores for items at my store, "Time to get crafty Tuesday", "Wet and wild Wednesday", "Thinking Thursday", and "Fabulous Fun Friday". It's an awesome schedule for us and gives the kids something to look forward to each day.

Week 1: Rainbows! For crafty Tuesday, we painted rainbows on fish and made sun twirlers and learned the colors that appear in rainbows and in what order.

On Wet Wednesday we played a water game with rainbow sponge "bombs" and "ate the rainbow" for our snack..

On thinking Thursday we did some science experiments with a prism and learned how to create an experiment and record our results. We made a rainbow from the sun, and learned what happens when we shine light through water, what changes when we add milk to water and shine light through it, and learned that light can "bend".

For fun Friday we visited a rainbow park and fed rainbow trout up the canyon! Eli got to touch a couple of fish. They loved watching the swarm when they came to feed!  A successful rainbow week!

Can you find Jackson, Zoey and Eli?