New Additions to Our Homeschool Lessons

I have been doing some reading and have decided on some things that I would like to incorporate into our homeschooling. I feel these are some simple ideas that can be included into our summer program and carried on through the regular school year.
The first thing that I have decided on is for each child to keep a Bible verse log. They will be assigned certain verses to read and then will write them in their logs. We will be starting with Proverbs.
The next thing I decided on is to make poetry a part of each day. We will start with some shorter poems. We are going to read one poem a week and then go over it and talk about it.
The last thing that I have decided on is to add dictation every day to our homeschool lessons. We have included this in the past with our spelling but not on a regular basis. We will start with various sentences. I like this idea because it will help my daughter who has auditory processing disorder. It will also improve their overall listening skills.

What our homeschool looks like lately

We choose to homeschool through the summer. This summer we did take a little break when public school first got out. Lately, I have been quite laxed with their schooling because we have been pretty busy with All Stars (my oldest plays softball).
The things we never slack off with are silent reading, Bible reading and math drills. For reading the 12 year old reads for 30 minutes, the 9 year old reads for 20 minutes and the 8 year old reads for 15 minutes. They read whatever they choose. For Bible reading, they read whatever they choose as well, but it is not for any certain amount of time. For math we work on different drills.
Now that All Stars is over we will start doing more. We will do things that are fun but educational. We will try to work on areas that they can still use more help with.