#SmartSummer Week 2 Government Linky

Show us how you’re having a Smart Summer!

I had highlighted posts from the previous week’s linky to but for clarity’s sake, I’ve moved the round-ups to their own posts:

• Me on the Map Round-Up
  
• Government, Patriotism, and Currency Round-Up

I’ve been sharing my family’s Smart Summer activities this week for our Government theme:

exercising our democratic right to vote for our favorite ice cream flavor,

skip counting coins,

We’re also planning on making statue of liberty headbands, finding out more about the symbols of our nation, designing our own flags, and visiting the post office (though we may wait on this last one until after the kids’ birthday party and tie it in with “thank you” notes).

Some other related posts of mine you might enjoy are:

An American Mosaic Flag

Coin Cleaning Experiment

We’d love for you to share your ideas–you can add a link to a post on your blog or even a photo set on Flickr or any types of publicly viewable “journal” entry on a social media or community site.

Not a blogger? If you do not have access to posting entries on any public site, you can also leave a comment on this post, sharing the learning opportunities you incorporated into your week with your children.

Your post (or comment) can be something from your archives that speaks to our theme for the week (Government) or it can just be a general post about how you are fitting fun learning into your summer activities. You can find our weekly themes on our calendar of ideas but ANY learning activities, big or small, are welcomed!

Just add your link(s) (as many relevant links as you would like) to a specific post or page (i.e. http://www.naturallyeducational.com/2011/06/fight-the-summer-slide-with-the-smart-summer-challenge/ NOT http://www.naturallyeducational.com) to the link widget below.

WIN PRIZES!

Every link you enter in the widget below (or your comment) during the week will also enter you to win our AWESOME prize of the week: a $100 Gift Pack of ThinkFun educational games.

ThinkFun’s mission is to Ignite Your Mind! ThinkFun is the world’s leader in addictively fun games like rush Hour and Zingo! that challenge your mind and sharpen your skills. ThinkFun understands the essential link between Think and Fun and is committed to developing products that build reasoning and creative thinking skills through play for people of all ages!

Find ThinkFun on Facebook and Twitter.

Official Rules

The linky and giveaway closes at 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, July 14…and then we’ll see you back Friday morning for more fun! You may enter as many links as you wish and each will count as an entry. Comment entries are limited to one per person, per site (total of three (3) possible comment entries). US Shipping only for prizes, due to sponsor requests, but international friends are still encouraged to play and add their links! Winner will be chosen at random from valid entries.

You retain the rights to all entries but grant us permission to share your links along with a short excerpt and thumbnail image.

We reserve the right to disqualify entries at our sole discretion and change the rules or prizes without notification beyond updating the page.

Spread the Word!

We’d love you to help spread the word–please feel free to link back and/or grab the code for the button below. And don’t forget to visit us on Facebook where we are sharing some more ideas from the community! Feel free to also post photos, questions, and ideas on the Facebook page, too: http://www.facebook.com/smartsummerchallenge.

Thank you for taking the Smart Summer Challenge!

Your hostesses,

Candace at NaturallyEducational.com, Amy at teachmama.com, MaryLea at PinkAndGreenMama

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