Summer School
Sometimes I feel bad that Keegan does not get to have a glorious 2+ months summer break like I did, but then, I think about his personality, and I believe it would drive him crazy to stay home for that long. And let’s not even talk about what it would do to us. He would still need lots of interaction with other kids, all day long, so summer school and camps, at least for now, seems like a perfect solution.
This year, we sent him to a one week YMCA camp, where he did a lot of messy experiments, and, by lucky chance, he ended up being in the same camp as Van, his preschool friend. After that, he wanted to go back to his school for their summer program. He was in the same classroom as the regular school year, so he felt at home. The theme this year was Space, so many activities are space related.
watch out for the alien UFO
Of course, they still do math, reading and writing, but there are also lots of other activities, like gardening, and crafts and storytelling and lots of play, including splash time on Fridays. He seems to be having a good time. For 4th of July, they built a lot of different crafts and had a celebration at school. Not quite as fun as the bike parade in preschool, but still.
Now, looking at the photo below, which kid seems to have the most fun?
He seems to also be enjoying more and more building thing, with all sort of materials: waffle blocks, Legos, flowers?
They do also quite a lot of team work…pretty cool. And yes, there are plenty girls at school, and occasionally they get allowed to build too. In fact Keegan seems to be quite popular among the girls. One of them has decided she wants to marry him…but he is not interested.
His construction skills translate into home play as well. He built this with jenga pieces.
They also work on less traditional skills like sawing. This is his first attempt.
It really feels like a win-win-win situation: he has fun (even if he would not readily admit it), I get to work and he reviews and improves on his math, writing and reading skills. It may not be the prefect solution forever, but we will worry about it when the time comes.
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