The summer school holidays are officially upon us, and all of the children's activities are finished until the new school term starts in September: swimming, gymnastics, trampolining, Irish Dancing, Girls' & Boys' Brigade, German and Hebrew. I'm really relieved as actually that level of activity was beginning to create burnout for me, as well as costing way too much, and I realised that we were hardly managing to get anything done at home - both in terms of housework and schoolwork.
I'm weighing up whether or not we should take a long summer 'holiday' from homeschool. We have a lot of work to catch up on, but I am *so* tired! So I'm not planning to go back to most of the activities in September, and I'm thinking of getting the book "Homeschool Family Fitness" and trying to do more ourselves, and I'd like to do a bit more with languages at home. Still not sure how - I may use some of the money we're saving on more curriculum items. I'll post what I'm planning to use later.
In the meantime, here is some Swedish vocabulary connected with the summer:
Sommar - Summer (en) definite = sommaren
Sommarstängt - closed for the summer (see the original post on this blog)
Jordgubbe - Strawberry, (literally, earth chap) plural = jordgubbar
Smultron - Wild Strawberries
Grädde - cream (to go with your strawberries
Sommarstuga - summer cottage, typically on the
Skärgården - the Swedish archipelago
Sol - sun (en) definite = solen
I'll leave you with some very typically Swedish pop-music:
Sommaren i City - Angel
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