Summer fun, getting ready for fall

We're going to try to enjoy these last few weeks of summer before we start up school again at the end of the month.  Jomo is about to have a couple of weeks off, and I'm looking forward to resting, taking trips to the park, maybe some nature walks, and not having to be anywhere or doing anything.

I have been working on getting ready for the fall.  I'm currently cleaning and organizing our school room, and finishing up with having all our copies made that we need for the year.  I'm really looking forward to school this year.  We're going to be studying ancient history (I'm really excited to learn along with Z).  We're going to make a big wall time-line (Jomo's wonderful idea), and I'll have Z cut out and label clip art to paste up on it.  I'm also really excited about the science plan, which I'm making up myself.  It's going to be life-science and I think will include weather, habitats, certainly animals, the human body, and plants.  We'll mostly get books from the library or from our shelves and do notebooking (something we're eager to try) with them.  More to come on that in the future.  I also have my eye on some experiment kits that I'd like to try out.  And finally, Z is reading really well, so I look forward to her reading more and more this year.  (Math isn't really registering on my excitement meter since I'm not loving our curriculum, but Z really enjoys Math, and I have some ideas for making it more fun this year.)  I have a lot more I could say about our school plans, but I'll save it for another post.