Summary: <a rel="NOFOLLOW" href="http://ultimateradioshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Summer-Roadschool-Show-Button.png"></a>If you're looking for a list of rules to make your summer roadschool awesome, you've come to the wrong place! Our Roadschool Moms team wholeheartedly agrees that we generally steer clear of any set-in-stone, cookie-cutter parameters that could inhibit or stifle our roadschoolers enthusiasm to learn something new everyday. In this episode, Mary Beth and Kimberly use their radio time to talk about the ways they plan to keep their traveling homeschoolers on the learning adventure this summer. Click play to hear more.<br> <br> * One of our favorite summer traditions in the Road Trip Teacher rig, is our summer journals. This is something we've been doing for many years (even before we started living fulltime in an RV.) It is a simply constructed journal of paper (lined, colored, blank, or a combination) bound together to be used to document all the summer activities to come. Giving your student a few ideas is a great guide to help him get started such as<br> <br> <br> * write or illustrate the weather daily or in a weekly summary<br> * make a summer leap list at the beginning of the journal to talk about all the things you would like to accomplish during this season of sunshine<br> * use it as a daily diary of thoughts or inspirations<br> * make a photo scrapbook of sorts to document one picture daily or weekly that represents the time period<br> <br> 2. Take advantage of travel plans to delve into state history facts and information. This project is even more fun if you will be hitting different areas of the same state so that differences in Again, by planning a notebook or binder for this state study, it gives your roadschooler a place to record state symbols, cut out the state song to play later if he is musically inclined, investigate the different areas in the way of topography, rivers and lakes, and the different terrain across the area. If your summer travel plans will take you to a specific region of the U.S., these state study guides can be grouped together to represent that as well. This is a wonderful record of time spent that will be referred to time and time again.<br> <br> 3. Sometimes, homeschool plans are so full of all the basics, it's hard to consistently fit in the extra-curriculars. Summer is a perfect time to take advantage of music, art, or other areas of special interest:<br> <br> * There are tons of music curriculum out there that allows a student to formally study the subject. One of our favorite ways to enjoy music curriculum is with Super Quiet Learning Time from <a rel="NOFOLLOW" href="http://<a%20href=%22https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=1276745&cl=211139&c=ib&aff=305510%22%20target=%22ejejcsingle%22>Click%20here%20to%20view%20more%20details</a>" target="_blank">SquiltMusic.com. </a> These are easy lessons with no planning involved that can be enjoyed by all ages under a tree during a picnic or anywhere you please! You might even find that one of your roadschoolers enjoys a particular composer and for that, this fun site has <a rel="NOFOLLOW" href="http://<a%20href=%22https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=1276745&cl=211139&c=ib&aff=305510%22%20target=%22ejejcsingle%22>Click%20here%20to%20view%20more%20details</a>" target="_blank">Squilt Spotlight</a> studies.<br> * It's no secret that Art + Outside = Super Summer Fun. There are so many different ways to enjoy art, sometimes it's overwhelming to pick just one medium. So don't! Try something new each week of the summer that you may or may not have tried before. A favorite from the Road Trip Teacher's crew is <a rel="NOFOLLOW" href="http://www.chalkpastel.com/?ref=170" target="_blank">chalk art pastel </a>drawings. The Roadschool 101 crew especially enjoyed the lessons from the <a rel="NOFOLLOW" href="http://www.chalkpastel.com/product/american-landmarks-chalk-pastel-art-for-..."></a>
