Oceans Day 1

 Our first day of summer homeschool! I set up the night before.

Melodie woke me up this morning. She was VERY excited. After breakfast, we got started right away. She didn't even want to wait to brush her hair. She did, however, get dressed. I had to keep from laughing at the orange shirt with pink, green and white plaid shorts.
 We started with our introduction to the theme of the week: oceans. We talked about how their were four and went over the names using the National Geographic Our World book and our beach ball globe.

Then she put up window clings. First, the money and clocks ones that will stay up for the summer. Then the ocean animal clings.

She did one of her math worksheets while I took a shower.

After my shower and her first math worksheet (see original Oceans Week post for details on worksheets). We read The Underwater Alphabet Book and then she wrote one upper case and lower case letter on a dolphin. We put these on the wall.

In the afternoon she went to her first day of swimming lessons, we had lunch and then went on a field trip to the beach.

After the beach (and a shower) she wanted to do more summer homeschool. She did two more math worksheets. Then we drew our globe.

We didn't do a great job, but we still had fun. Then she reviewed the ocean names on the Sheppard Software Website. This is when the names really stuck in her memory. After she memorized the names and locations, we labeled our globe. It was a little confusing because some of our continents weren't in the correct place, but we managed.

She wanted to do even more things, but since we went to the beach (unplanned) I decided to move Jonah and the Whale to another day (we don't have FHE on Mondays anyway).
 Besides swimming, we did plenty of non-homeschool things. But it was cute how she always wanted to do more. I hope it lasts!