Summer School

         This summer (well part of it anyway) we decided it was a good idea for the boys to work their way into school by starting abcmouse.com in late June. Abcmouse.com is an amazing website (you may see it advertised on pbs constantly during the day). There are 6 levels total with two levels of preschool, two levels of pre-k and two levels of kindergarten. Now, this where my (what I call) OCD kicked in...lol. I could have likely started them on pre-k or kindergarten and they could've done the material with no problem. But...if I start something, I like to do it from the very beginning. Make sure that you have all the base knowledge before you move on to the later levels. So, naturally this meant we must start at level one. Plus, that way it'll last the whole school year. 
         The website works so that you can follow the learning path through the levels, or just pick activities to do. We did the learning path starting with level 1. They love it! There are books, puzzles, coloring, games and more. Plus there are printables that I print out and they color (alternating days of painting,  markers and crayons) and then we do separate letter practice if they covered a letter in their lesson.  Since it was all we were doing, and it was summer, we just did them whenever they wanted during the week. It ended up taking us just shy of two months and they're done with level 1! Which is amazing timing since our Kindergarten starts August 18th!! I put pictures of a few random assignments they did and the chart the filled out as they completed lessons. They did a great job!