Summer Schedule

We had a really busy summer that included three trips to different parts of California, a trip to Nevada, and a trip to Washington. We didn't do much formal work during the summer. We visited a few water parks, Hot August Nights, saw Great Grandparents and Great Great Grandparents, among many other things.

We used our road trips as Geography lessons. Frequently using a map and showing the kids where we were and how we got there. While in Nevada we spent a lot of time just talking about the landscape there and how it differed from Oregon and other states they had been to. We started learning about deserts and what animals and plants can survive in them.

We also visited Willows, California where some of my relatives live. My Great Granparents home was just sold to the city. The city has plans to tear it down. So we went down to document the history of the house and of my family. We ended up learning so much about my family that I never knew. It was a very emotional, worth while trip. I began showing the kids how family trees work and they made thier own trees with what they knew about our family.



We also visited Ocean World in Crescent City, California. It was one of my favorite things we did the entire summer. We almost didn't go, as we have been to many aquariaums and this one was really small, and we didn't think the kids would see anything they hadn't seen a hundred times before. So glad we did!

They have a guided tour that goes through and we all learned lots of interesting facts that we hadn't known from all of our previous visits to other aquariums.
We got to pet a shark. We all loved that! We learned the difference between seals and sea lions, and they put on a fun show for us! We all walked away with so much new knowledge, it was exciting. We are still talking about the things we learned on that trip!




We ended the summer with a chartered fishing trip on the ocean. The boys went out on the boat while DD and I walked the beaches finding interesting shells, hermit crabs, animal bones, and other interesting sea finds. It was a very busy summer, but it was great fun.

We came home and had 2 days before public school was back in session. We had previously decided we were going to try to stick to the public school's calendar as best we could to keep on scehdule.


video of the seal/sea lion show at Ocean World.