Hitting the Trails
June 6, 2008
I love taking the kids for bike rids and I’ve found that going for a bike ride with the kids doesn’t have to be a dull, mundane trip around the block. I’ve added several bike trips to our Family Fun Planning sheet.
I have a pick up truck and a bike rack on the Jeep to transport our bikes. A couple of months ago I visited the wisconsin tourism website and had a bunch of brochures mailed to me including one that listed all the states bike trails. Today we’re heading to one of the local parks that is a couple of miles away. We’re going to spend the day bike riding, playing frisbee golf
You wouldn’t believe what I did one day when it rained on one of our planned bike trips? My mom had given me one of those stationary bikes ( you know — the thing in the corner of your bedroom that you hang clothes on) I lugged that thing out and let every one take turns riding bike. It was great fun; the picnic lunch was already packed, along with our back packs which had a few good books. So we just straped on the camel packs (I decided to forgoe the frisbee golf!), and we had a really fun rainy day.Everyone took turns riding the bike and when we reached our destination we had lunch, read some of the books together, and just enjoyed each other’s company.
If you take a bike trip somewhere with you kids take along a camera and get some good pics of your trip. You can e-mail me one if you want and I’ll add it to the Surviving Summertime newsletter. You can send the pic to
family-fun-time@ssmommy.com.
Have a great weekend everyone!!
Economic Stimulus Check
May 19, 2008
My economic stimulus check has arrived from the government; yay! I’m so happy. Since I’m in the midst of planning for our summer vacation I decided to use this bonus money to help with our summer time fun planning. The first thing I’m going to do with the money is to purchase some books for the kids. I chose to do this instead of sending them to summer school since I work from home and it would take time from my day to transport them back and forth to the school. I bought the following from Rainbow Resource:
1 Mathlink Cubes Primary Activity Book (001227)
1 Teddy Bear Counters at the Fair Activity Book (010131)
1 Pattern Block Book (013718)
1 Summer Bridge Activities 6-7 (004214)
1 Mathlink Cube Activity Book 3-6 (001226)
1 Summer Bridge for Young Christians PK-K (031751)
1 Summer Bridge for Young Christians Gr.4-5 (015149)
1 Summer Bridge for Young Christians Gr. 1-2 (031753)
1 Teddy Bear Counters - Set of 100 (018735)
1 Snap Cubes - Set of 100 (013362)
1 Pattern Blocks & Boards (011915)
These book will provide activities for the kids to keep their brains sharp during the summer and will provide enough “homework” to last them all summer long. I also purchased some learning “toys” and books to go along with them to provide the children with fun things to keep them occupied on those inevitable rainy days.
