Spring Break!

This week the kids are out of school for Spring Break.  I am using this time to clean and organize our classroom (which somehow seems to need re-organizing every few weeks for some reason!), and to schedule our last six weeks or so of the school year.  I am also using the time to start planning for the coming school year, find new materials for the upcoming topics of choice, and prepare for the end of the year and some of the more difficult topics the kids will be learning.

So far, a lot of the kids' curriculum was either review or a building on knowledge they'd learned last year.  In these last six weeks of school, the kids will be focusing heavily on adding/subtracting monetary sums, more writing/handwriting, reading, and spelling.  I think I can safely say our handwriting/writing capabilities have improved greatly in only a few short weeks (thanks to all the pen pals!).

This summer we will take about 8 weeks off, but while we are enjoying our time off, we will be doing some fun science projects and experiments that we weren't able to do outside this winter.  With Trevor's hours being somewhat unpredictable, we can't really schedule/plan any trips just yet, but hopefully by the time we officially start Summer Break, we will have a better idea of what we can manage this summer as far as traveling.

I am looking forward to these final six weeks and compiling sets of the kids' work to illustrate their progress in the different subjects from the beginning of our school year to end.