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No sleep-away camps or full day camps. They hated that.  My parents or ILs stayed with us for summer months so that my kids could chill at home if needed.

For my ES kids - 
- Couple short but interesting classes at our local community college or county rec dept classes - pottery, mad science, robotics, painting, cooking, baking etc. 
- Couple Play dates - chilling with friends in our swimming pool, biking, sports, going on trails. Movie nights and semi-sleepover (ie party went on till 10 pm)
- Fieldtrips -Fieldtrips to museums, historical sites, zoo, aquarium, antique markets, parks etc - and we took pictures, did research and made digital journals. 
- One vacation in the US national parks (my kids were junior rangers),  + 10-15 day vacation internationally with the grandparents. 
- Reading list.  I used to collect books for them to read based on what other schools or libraries were recommending.  Made sure that they had read the Newberry, Caldecott awarded books -  as well as the usual Harry Potter type of books.  My kids were also into Tintin, Asterix and many picture books (some great and some meh).  We have around 400 children books in our personal library.

Older ES  and MS kids  -
- My kids always had 1 week of intense 6 hour Math camp at the beginning or end of summer
- Foreign Language tutor for a couple long intense weekend sessions to cover 1st quarter curriculum for next year. (starting as rising 6th graders)
- EC focussed coaching
+ All the usual ES schedule too.

Summer was the busiest time for me. I used to start prepping and organizing from Jan for it. 
I made sure that several of my kid's friends also signed up for the same things.  [/quote]

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