Back to Summer

Woo hoo!  It is summer again.  I love it.  I am so happy.  This had been one of, if not the longest school year of my life.  I had a rough group of students and I think I got spoiled from the previous year, which so far, has gone down as the best group of students I ever had in 12 years of teaching.  Those students just graduated 8th grade last week.  They will be leaving the school and moving on to HS.  They will be missed.  Alas, onto SUMMER!

So, last summer I embarked on this crazy Kid Kamp idea.  I had a giant binder full of projects themed for each week.  I was able to do plenty of the activities and whatnot in there.  But, I didn't get to everything.  This summer I saw this idea on Pinterest--where else?--a giant checklist--100 Things to do this Summer.





Got this from ChasingFireflies.  And let me tell you--this mom has some killer handwriting.  It is amazing.  I am not so talented, so I defaulted to the computer and Publisher.  Here is my list.

 

I used many of the same ideas that she had and then I added a few of my own--Disney being number 100.  We are headed there near the end of the summer.  It will be a great way to close out the list.  

After I made the list, I blew it up to a poster and hung it on my kitchen wall.  My kids, my daughter especially, was so thrilled to see it.  

In the first weekend, we had already knocked off a quite a few items.  I can't wait to check off more things. 

My poster and my kids checking off some things we already did

So, my blog challenge for this summer is going to be to document the 100 Things We Do This Summer.  Off to my first blog about our first summer weekend.