Summer Homeschool Haul: Amazon | Fun Summer Learning Resources

[Music] hey everybody Welcome to the wock way I'm Jessica and today's video is going to be a summer homeschool haul so I'm going to be sharing all of the things that I purchased with the intention of making our summer super fun but also educational now the first few things that I purchased are things that I purchase every year typically they become Emily's like last day of school gift as part of our kickoff to Summer but it's things I would have probably bought anyway I will link her last day of school gift basket up here in case you missed it the first thing is this daily summer activity book so it covers things like reading math spelling critical thinking and geography it will literally just be one page a day for her so it's just going to help prevent that summer slide to make sure we're not losing the things that we already learned but it also is not going to prevent present any new information as far as the basics go I really try to keep our summers more review versus introducing New Concepts I also always purchase a fun book series for Emily something I may or may not have bought for her otherwise and this year that book series was the last kids on Earth um she started watching the series on Netflix and really enjoyed it and kind of wanted to know more about it so she's already about halfway through the first one and she can't wait to dig into these this summer I'm sure she's going to read through them super fast and then I also got some games and activities for us to enjoy in the pool because we love pool schooling it is Florida you cannot be outside unless you are in water so the first one is this ring Rush game we actually already played this this past weekend and had a blast with it so it includes 20 different Rings you throw them into the pool and then you race to try to basically create whatever is on this card so you would have to have these on one hand and these on the other and whoever does that first gets a point whoever gets to Five Points first is the winner it was a really fun game Emily is very very good at it then we also got this seek and splash number dive game so basically the cards have a number on them and you're diving for numbers that you could create an equation that make that number so for example if it's 16 you could find two fours 4 * 4 is 16 or like a 10 and a six actually that would be a one a zero and a six but anyway you need to form some sort of equation that would create that number on the card and then we also got the guess and 10 Splash animal Edition we love playing these guest in 10 over dinner as a family and so I thought it would be fun to have a pack that we didn't have to worry about getting you know wet or ruining and the animal of course is Emily's favorite anyway so this was oh no brainer win and then the last kind of pool school game that I purchased is this Aqua Bingo the amazing animal Edition so there are a couple of different ways to play there's game one and two but you basically have all of these like animal bingo chips that you throw because they sink and you dive in to get them and you fill out your bingo card again it was animals so it was no brainer now everything else that I purchased was with the intention of like really just making our unit studies this summer as amazing as possible the majority of which I purchased for our spy school because Emily is like hands down all into that and that's going to be what we do for the bulk of the summer and that all goes along with our brand new unit study Spy Academy which is the top secret world of Espionage I shared about that earlier this week I'll link it up here in case you missed it we cannot wait to dive into it it is going to be amazing but most of this stuff was purchased just to really kind of like enrich that study again none of this is required for it though because that study is all encompassing so the first thing I have is spy Mad Libs so that we can get a little grammar practice in while we're spying I also grabbed the spy school book series I think this is probably what I'm going to read aloud with Emily over the summer more than likely unless we read one and she ends up rushing ahead of me which is could totally happen and then for her independent reading I got a bunch of like the you Choose Your Own Adventure types of books because she loves those so the first one I got are the Choose Your Own Adventure this was a um collection that you purchased all together so we have Cleopatra James armat Lafayette Mary Bowser Harry [Music] Houdini Mahari and new inat KH and yes I probably butchered that name and then I also got her the you choose series now this is one of the sets I was most excited about because it's spies through the American Revolution spies through the Civil War spies through World War I and spies through World War II and in the Spy Academy unit study that I wrote I specifically wrote about five historical Espionage Evolutions through the American Revolution World War I World War II the Civil War and the Cold War because I really wanted to kind of see how Espionage had evolved over the years and I wanted to expose EML to five major Wars throughout history in a way that was more fun or at least brought some fun to them so I loved that this book series tied in to four of the five Wars do I wish there was cold war absolutely but it's four of the five so I was really excited about that then I also grabbed the spy on history series for the same reason because this covers three of those five Wars as well these books actually include like a little spycraft thing so like an activity and this one is Anna Anna strong in the Revolutionary War cul weiring then we have Mary Bowser and the Civil War spir ring and last we have Victor Dow in the World War II ghost Army now I will say as much as I like these Emily immediately looked at the cover and was like those might be a little childish so hoping she'll read them anyway but I know for sure they the other two series are a hit like she's going to read those like crazy okay and then I got some games of course because it wouldn't be us if we didn't one is dedo a quacking deduction game this is a game right game we love all the games by them it is for two to four players and ages 8 plus I have break the code so you create some sort of number code and you're trying to break each other's code it looks a lot like Mastermind but with numbers instead of um the different colors this is for 2 to four players in ages 10 up code name pictures uh we have a lot of the other different types of code names like duet so just two people could play we have the Disney version but I thought pictures would be a fun addition this is two to eight players ages 10 up SP by connection one of the things I loved about this one is that the game board is actually a map so we could get some of that geography in with it um this is ages eight up two to four players and then I got Escape your house spy team I thought it would be really fun to have some sort of Escape thing for spy and this was spy team so that seemed like a win um it says three to six players and ages eight up it looks like it's going to be a lot of fun and I'm excited to do it Emily's been wanting to do an escape room but a lot of the ones around us won't let her do one until she's at least 12 which she's not yet so I'm hoping this will pacify her until then and then I also grabbed two kind of reference books for her I don't know if we'll read them entirely or if we'll just reference them throughout the study but I have this one which is how to be a spy and then this one which is top secret the book of spies and agents they're by the same company and they had really really pretty illustrations and they just looked like a lot of fun so like I said those are reference now none of this is required for Spy Academy like I said that is an all-encompassing unit study um but these are all recommended suggested resources if you want more to enrich that study okay the last thing that I have for the Spy study is this spy secret agent Gadget Bag if you will that was Em's number one request when she found out we were going to be doing spy school was that she got some sort of secret agent spy bag so I just got her a simple black um sling bag and then decided to fill it with some simple spy gadgets the first one being a walkie-talkie now I actually got a set of three walkie-talkies because she's going to be doing the study with some friends and I wanted to make sure they could all talk to each other I also got her spy glasses now these look like regular sunglasses from the front when you put them on half are sunglasses and half are mirror so you can actually see behind you so like here I can see the Spy Academy Book behind me and here I can see that basket full of books behind me so you can secretly spy I got her a set of stick on mustaches because I thought that would be fun for when going undercover I also grabbed her a top secret notebook to write in and one of those invisible pens with the black light revealing lights um even though we will be studying a lot of different ways to make invisible messages in Spy Academy that's part of the Spy science this way she can do it um without having to have a lot of materials cuz she only needs two things I grabbed her a lanyard because part of the unit study is coming up with code names and making um secret agent badges so that way she'll have somewhere to put her badge and then I also grabbed her a spyx voice disguiser and a spyx motion detecting alarm we haven't used these yet so I have no reviews on them but it seemed like really fun gadgets and that was one of her requests the last thing I picked up for spy school was this top trumps 007 trivia we really enjoy playing games over dinner like trivia and guessing games and I thought this would mean that we could also watch all the 007 movies one of my favorite things about this particular top trumps trivia is that on the card it specific speically says which movie each question is from that way we don't have to wait to play the game until we've watched all the movies we can just watch one and only ask the questions from that specific movie then as we watch more movies add in more questions this says that it is 500 questions and ages 12 plus but I'm going to assume that the age on this is just because of the content in the movies and not the game itself the rest of the things that I have for the summer haul are for the second part of our summer which is when we will be studying Summer Olympics and that is the four Who Was books that go along in the summer bundle I needed these to be able to write those studies and then to do them ourselves so we have what are the Summer Olympics who was Jesse Owens who are Venus and Serena Williams who is Michael Phelps and then for Emily to read independently I got her the kid Olympian summer edition true Tales of childhood from Champions and Game Changers I liked that this included some of the famous athletes we would be studying like Michael Phelps and Serena Williams but it also included athletes like Simone biles and Usain Bolt that we wouldn't be studying so it would expose her to even more and it's just a fun read with some cute little pictures so I think it is perfect for her and then I only grabbed one game for now because the Summer Olympics actually start on her birthday so I'm undecided how deep we're going to Dive Into Summer Olympics and whether or not she'll get additional resources as birthday gifts so the only one I got for now because I knew we would want to play it is the guest and 10 sports I really thought we already had this but I couldn't find it and I knew for sure I wanted to have it so I grabbed another copy um we like to play these a lot over dinner as a family so that is what we will do my plan is basically to have the 007 top trumps for the Spy portion of our summer and then the guest and 10 sports for the Olympic portion of our summer so there you have it that is everything everything that I purchased for our summer homeschool with the intention of having a super fun yet also educational summer [Music]