Another sunny day :)

What a magnificent morning!!! Yesterday Aaron and I took the boys out for a special lunch to celebrate the end of 1st grade and preschool. I now have a 2nd grader and a kindergartner (we do a two year kindergarten program)!

We are all glad that summer vacation is here. This is actually the first summer that we have taken “off”. We normally school year round. After looking at all the activities that we scheduled for the kids and the trips we are taking we decided to nix school for awhile. As much as I love homeschooling it will be nice to just “be” for awhile.

I mentioned in an earlier post that I am compiling a list of our goals for the summer and the coming school year. Those lists are still in progress and I will share them when they are completed. But Leah (my super, smart sister-in-law!) posted a comment that I think was full of great ideas. So I am going to copy it and post it below. I want to make sure everyone gets to read her ideas.

Leah’s words of wisdom…

God gives wisdom when we ask and He has brought some great tools/ideas at just the right time.

One thing I want my kids to leave home with is a love of God's word. They love memorizing verses. One year we did ABC...lots of curriculums do that and it's fun. Now we're learning 1verse from each book of the Bible, and talking about what each book is about as we go. We're almost through the Old Testament!!

I want my kids to learn to pray, of course, and to especially learn to think about those outside of their little corner of the world. I've adapted an idea a friend gave me to praying with my kids. On Monday we pray for missionaries, Tuesday is teachers, Wednesday is workers or just worship God, Thursday is thanksgiving, Friday is family or friends. Some days we just pick what is closest to our heart...after all, prayer doesn't have to follow a formula.

Finances is another big area...there is a book by Ron Blue called Your Kids Can Master Their Money (or something like that). It has great ideas for teaching personal finance starting at around age 7-8.

Thanks for the ideas Leah!!