Image via WikipediaI haven’t posted much recently, mostly because we haven’t done a whole lot of homeschooling lately. Mostly just home-playing, which is educational, but playing with Lego for days on end does not a quality blog post make.

But, as many of David’s lessons and group activities close up for the summer, we’ve got a few plans to use the summer learning time.

David’s just finishing up the last 50 pages or so of Mathematical Reasoning Level B, and once that’s done, we’re going to go through the much slimmer Times Tables book from Hodder Home Learning over the summer.

We’re also going to go through Apples, Bubbles and Crystals: Your Science ABCs (published by the American Chemical Society), which has a good mix of outdoor and rainy-day type activities. This spiral bound book combines reading and rhyming with simple science activities that begin with a list of everyday household materials and come with colorfully illustrated step-by-step instructions. Also provided are explanations of the science principles behind the fun. The 26 activities cover everything from making rainbows, rockets, music, fingerprints, and glue while exploring density, thermodynamics, wave transmission, mechanics, shadows and other topics.

We’ll keep reading… Right now David’s only interested in reading books about Batman on his own. Luckily, Scholastic has a fairly good set of Batman readers available, so he should have reading material for most of the summer. We’ve got two more books in the Dragon Detective Agency series to read as read-alouds, and once those are done, I’ll see if he’s ready for Encyclopedia Brown.

A few weeks of day camp, a few fishing trips, camping trips and park time, and lots and lots of Lego ought to fill out our summer nicely.