If anyone knows me, they know I'm ridiculously organized and a helpless perfectionist planner. So, I had to makes sure that we made the most of our summer vacation so that we had lots of fun, made lots of memories and were able to keep our minds active.
Because I like to keep things on a pretty rigid schedule, I had to do a full-on daily planner. You see, just having a three-year-old like Benji tends to lend itself to its own sort of challenges, so, keeping him on some sort of a routine helps the entire day flow much more smoothly. My days will definitely not all be like this because he has summer preschool two days a week to enable me to get some things accomplished that I really like doing sans Benji (grocery shopping, meal prepping). This is, however, a great way for me to keep our Monday/Wednesday/Fridays packed with fun and education opportunities all summer long!
Need a plan? Break your day into thirty minute increments from the time you wake. Mine looks something like this.
5-6:30 Gym
630-700 eat
700-730 prep breakfast for the clan
730-800 wake and eat
800-830 chores
830-900 Kitchen clean up – free time
900-1100 Activities or Park
1100-1130 Writing – every day must either write in
journals with the prompt given
1130-1200 lunch, prep and serve
1200-1230 lunch clean up and finish chores
1230-130 naptime & quiet time / reading for
Drew/Josh
130-200 naptime & quiet time / Spanish
practice Drew
200-230 naptime & quiet time / Spanish
practice Josh – lapbook for Drew
230-300 TV / Movie time and/or gaming time
(depending upon behavior)
300-330 Science experiments
330-430 Craft time
430-500 Chores
500-530 Head outside
530-600 Dinner prep and cooking for mom
I took it a step further in that I created weekly themes for us to fill our activities around. I also talked to the boys to find out what they wanted to do and learn about. Josh (the 14 year old, doesn't care). Drew, the 8 year old LOVES these themes so we're set. Benji (3) doesn't get a choice.
CAMP MOM 2013 THEMES ARE:
Week 1 (June 3-7): Camping
Week 2 (June 10-14): Space / Star-Wars
Week 3 (June 17-21): Monsters
Week 4 (June 24-28): Animals / Zoo
Week 5 (July 1-5): America
Week 6 (July 8-12): Pirates
Week 7 (July 15-19): Beaches / Oceans
Week 8 (July 22-26): Weird Science
Week 9 (July 29-Aug 2): Dr. Seuss (though I may change this to Eric Carle)
Week 10 (Aug 5-9): Dinosaurs
The boys will be keeping summer journals in order for me to keep their writing skills honed, help Drew with his fine motor skills and handwriting and also so that have a fun place to record all the cool "stuff" we will be doing.
Four of these weeks I will be following along with Summer Fun Camp 2013 because they will have some neat activities planned. Most others are just me, searching, surfing, and planning.
And, then, without further adieu, here is our Summer Bucket List that I'm also sharing on The Happy Family Movement Summer link up.
2 comments:
I love breaking the day into 30 min increments. I have a hard time with time management and get stuck doing one thing forever...I'm going to give 30 time limits a try and see how it works.
I love the weekly themes too. My son is to young for that right now, but definitely something I will so in the future.
Have a great summer.
Could you share a few of your journal prompt ideas
Thanks
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