About an hour after I read Elizabeth's post yesterday asking for suggestions for keeping the kids occupied all summer, I got an email from k12.com. I used this terrific online school to home-school my son for a year in fourth grade so they send me announcements. Here's what got my attention:
Build a website. Pick up a new language.
Learn Flash animation. Earn high school credit.
Keep their minds engaged.
With the K¹² Power-Glide World Language courses
and Giant Campus cybercamps and courses, your children can do all this before summer ends!
We have been toying with sending our geeky 11-year old to ID Tech camp this summer. They offer outstanding residential camps on college campuses that teach game and Web design. He went once before and it changed his life: He came home sure he wanted to go to college and excited to learn things like programming. But it's very expensive and five hours away. So I immediately headed over to the Cybercamps link. These teach kids (11-17) Web design and programming. And he can attend this class while sitting at his own computer. He was pretty excited about this because he doesn't want to break the bank, loves the idea of an online class, and has been asking me to find him someone who can teach him Flash and Java. (I told you he was geeky.)
Then his little sister (9) didn't want to be left out of the online class thing so she actually begged to take one of the language classes
: French. She insists she must learn French. She toyed with Latin for a few minutes but then insisted it had to be French.So that's one way I plan to keep the kids occupied this summer.
But there are 10 weeks of summer. Anyone else got ideas?
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