Done!

Well, we've had some visitors and been busy these past few weeks, and now summer is over!

What worked well:

1. The girls LOVED keeping a journal of what they learned and were mad when I forgot to find "journal-time."
2. Watching my girls stop at the zoo, notebooks in hand, alongside their uncle to sketch an elephant.  A mom passed me and said, "Are they sketching?!?!?  What a great idea!!" She was surprisingly stoked.
3. Having a theme each week.  During lunch, we'd just start talking about the theme.  Kids have so many questions, and I have so many answers . . .  and those answers just give them more questions!  Without those topics to guide us, I think they would have spent their entire summer talking about Barbie and Cinderella.  They still talked about Barbie and Cinderella, but it was nice to have a break and think about our ribs go up and down when we breathe, or why bugs don't have skin, or things look smaller the further thay are from you.

What didn't work well:

1. Mommy's energy.  After a while I just didn't care what the Spanish word for "monkey" is.  God bless teachers.

Have a safe school year!