Homeschool Summer Session 2025

Because we moved right at the end of the summer, I am behind on homeschool updates, so there will be a few posts in a row as I play catch-up. 

Our summer session this year ran from June to mid-August, and it included history, science, math, Latin, reading, writing, and P.E. 

For history, each of the three older girls had an assigned American history book or series to read. M. (11) read Story of America by John A. Garraty, C. (9) read the Drama of American History series by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier and E. (7) read the American Story picture book series by Betsy and Giulio Maestro. Together with me they watched Early American History: Native Americans Through the Forty-Niners with Linwood Thompson from the Great Courses.

For science, everyone, including R. (5) and A. (5), listened to me read aloud Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick, and we watched a series called Full Proof through a service offered by the public library.  

M. and I worked our way through some lessons from Jensen's Format Writing to help her learn to write well organized paragraphs. 

All three girls watched videos and did exercises from So You Really Want to Learn Latin? 

All five kids went to the pool a lot and everyone is now a capable swimmer.