Schools out for summer.
As spring went on and slowly everything became a bit more
summery the children got very interested in the plants around so we developed
that into the main ‘topic’ for the term. It was a great success and they
enjoyed watching insects, listening to seed heads popping and exploring the changing
landscape as we moved from the mountains of northern Spain
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| listening to laburnum popping in the forest |
For the last few months school has been fairly ad hoc with a
lot of interesting trips to museums and natural and/or historical places as we
have (by our standards) been moving on fairly quickly, we have also had two
weeks of lovely family visits. We had the usual list of things to be covered
and we fitted school time around rainy days and other things. Finally the
thermometer started climbing so school work was done in the shade and often in
just shorts (only the boys, not me!), I’m afraid that bad parent as I am they
carried on working when the temperature was over 30 degrees but by half way
through July all the loose ends had been finished and it was time to stop for a
break.
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| journals |
I strongly suspect that even though ‘school’ is out,
learning will not be stopping, there are still journals/scrapbooks to be
filled, museums to visit, jellyfish to watch, boat skills to practise and who knows what else we’ll
find. So now it’s time to enjoy the beach and do other summery things The
youngest deck hand tells me that he is looking forward to “weeks and weeks” of
summer holidays.
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| practising knots |
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