Not so lazy days of summer

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This summer is about to be full of learning and exciting fun activities with lots of trips to places as well. Yes Blaine is home schooled and too young to be “bored” by being home in the summer and not in school although we learn all year round summer is a different type of learning. There is going to be lots of summer reading, library trips, splash pads, parks and places.

Unfortunately this summer is going to have to be a little bit different than our normal summers as we are down to one car until the truck is fixed so we have to drive dad to and from work.

Our daily summer schedule looks something like this.

Monday's are going to be visit a new splash pad or go to the beach in the mornings before it becomes so hot you have to peel yourself off the sidewalks. In the afternoons we will doing something from the home school bins such as a science experiment or something else that is hands on.

Tuesday's will bring play group in the mornings and the afternoon will include a work sheet.

Wednesday's are going to be our fun filled days weather permitting we will be heading out to adventures such as storybook gardens, the children's museum, Toronto science centre, the African lion safari, the ROM, and many many more exciting places.

Thursday's are our quit days we will visit the library in the morning to get new books and of course play in their play area and do the weekly craft. In the afternoon we will work on our summer reading list.

Friday's weather permitting this year are going to be hiking! He is finally old enough to hike the small trails with me which is great and his love for exploring and learning in nature matches mine. We will hike a new trail every week, do a nature hunt and learn about the items we are hunting for.

Weekends will vary depending on what all is going on, cleaning, yard work, the beach, camping, prepping for the week ahead and of course relaxing.

Through all of these awesome summer plans is his birthday and holidays and of course my business that still needs to function. Each day has time set aside for him to chill out and play while I work on whatever needs to be worked. The crock pot and I are going to be best friends this summer.

What are your summer plans?

Summer Schedule

Ah summer!! The time of the year where you want to spend every minute outside soaking up as much sun as possible because we all know winter comes too soon and winter in Canada is cold and boring.

This year I wanted to pack as much as possible into summer for my son, he loves to explore and I didn't want him to be overly bored without preschool. Being that he is an only child life for him is spent playing with the dogs, playing alone with toys or playing with mommy/daddy. I am sure we are not as much fun as the other kids.

We plan to visit a new place every week. Such as Legoland. I am super excited about that one!

I run a small business at home so it allows me to set my own schedule. My child likes to start his day between 6am and 7am, I on the other hand would like to start mine around 8am.

This is a peek at our schedule!

Mondays
Library. Our has a little play center and he can pick his books out to read for the week. They also have arts and crafts in the one corner and other activities all summer long. We will spend the whole morning here because he loves it.
Lunch
After lunch is free play, my business partner brings her kids and they play while we work for a couple hours.
We eat early at about 4pm in the summer as I teach cardio kickboxing
After dinner it is park/outside play until bedtime


Tuesdays
Drop in. He loves drop and we used to go everyday. When he started preschool we stopped going but with summer here and lack of other kids to play with we will be attending again.
Lunch
After lunch is free play, my business partner brings her kids and they play while we work for a couple hours.
We eat early at about 4pm in the summer as I teach cardio kickboxing
After dinner it is park/outside play until bedtime

Wednesdays
I decided Wednesdays would be the best day for our day trips. It helps break up the day.

Thursdays
Its a full work day for us so the kids get to play together

Lunch

We eat early at about 4pm in the summer as I teach cardio kickboxing
After dinner it is park/outside play until bedtime

Fridays
Animal farm day! of we love the animal farm, so many animals to love up plus there is the parks, trails and beach right there too.
Lunch
After lunch is free play, my business partner brings her kids and they play while we work for a couple hours.
We eat early at about 4pm in the summer as I teach cardio kickboxing
After dinner it is park/outside play until bedtime


Saturdays/Sundays
Lazy days kind of.
Weekends are saved for business events, hiking, the market, and of course visits with his grandpa at "grandpas fishing house"

Through out the whole summer we are learning and exploring everything!

I created a list last year of everything he needed to know before he started Junior Kindergarten so we work on that each day. We read as many books as possible, visit as many parks as possible and of course walk the dogs.

We are very lucky to live in an area that is on the water so spending as much time near, on or at the water is a must.

Some parents are going "no schedule" this summer, I guess its the new trend. I look at things this way, does he need to be so scheduled he can't do anything else no, but a bored child is a child who gets into trouble!

What are your summer plans?