School has ended for almost everyone and summer has begun! It may seem that since you don’t have school anymore, you will have plenty of free time… yeah right! I don’t know that there is plenty of free time for homeschool moms. During the summer months you don’t want your children to stop learning because they are out of school. Our homeschool schools through the summer. Although we don’t get our workbooks out, we still use everyday lessons to learn and gain understanding or a new concept. One thing that we absolutely love to do is reading!

So let’s talk about summer reading. Summer is a great time to get a list of books you want to read. I have 7 younger siblings of all ages, so I get quite a few different books from the library for them.
Some of the ones that the 11yo and 8yo are going to read are:

The Little House on the Prairie Series
The Kingdom Series

We also have a 14yo and she is going to read:

Anne of Green Gables

Our 17yo is not a big reader, but she has just finished:

The Bridge to Terabithia

I am the avid reader here, and my list is pretty long, but the specific ones I am looking forward to reading are:

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (almost finished with)
Rosa of Linden Castle by Christoph von Schmid
The Cross and The Switchblade by Dave Wilkerson
Run Baby Run by Nicky Cruz
The Infinite Day by Chris Walley
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss (for the fourth time)

There are a few reading programs online that I have found that you can join for the summer.
TOS’s Summer Reading Splash . TOS wants to help make reading fun this summer! Splish the Frog will be around too. The site says:

“Each week, here on our blog, we will be posting a new topic question.  We’d like you to think about these and then e-mail your answers to us by clicking here.  E-mailing your answers is much safer than leaving a comment.  If you have your own e-mail address, that’s fine;  if not, have your mom or dad e-mail your answer to us.  Each Friday we will have a drawing and we’ll be giving away some fantastic books (and series of books)!  Also, we may pick YOUR answer to post here on our blog- just for fun! You’ll want to check out our Summer Reading Splash webpage also- here you’ll have access to downloading our log sheets.  We will have one for younger children and one for older children available.  Please, please, please keep track of ALL the books you read.  At the end of the program, we’ll have a special prize for those of you who turn in your reading logs (more details to come!)”

HSB Literary Club is also continuing reading through the summer. Currently we have just started reading Rosa of Linden Castle by Christoph von Schmid and are very behind on our schedule because the moderators went on vacation! Now they are back and ready to get started again.

Don’t let summer put learning on hold! That’s why we homeschool. To have freedom to learn the way we want. Reading is an excellent way to learn about everything.
Another thing you can do after you read the book is blog about. Write a review and blog about it. Blogging is a great way not only to share books with other homeschoolers, but also to never let the learning stop!

What are some of the books you are reading? What about your children? Have they made up lists of books they want to read?

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