Summer Theme weeks...need Ideas!

We do something like this every summer too! Its soooo much fun.

Language (count to 10, learn shapes, colors and family members in Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Farsi...maybe even sign language)
Instruments
Classical Composers
Artists
The Wild West aka Notorious Cowboys and Famous Indians
Presidents
Famous Americans
7 Wonders of the World
American bridges
American Landmarks (how long it took to build, what materials, how high, how many workers)

Pirates
Police officers
Firemen
Personal Responsibility (I'm thinking age appropriate Ropes Course type stuff)
Rocks
Trees
Bugs

Gardening (plant seeds, composting, water them, grow veggies, weed the garden, etc)
Recycling / Donating clothes / Donating old toys / Making green cleaners
Ocean life
The rainforest
**This would be great for your older 2: Each and every day this summer, they can get an email from the therainforestsite.org reminding them to click the box to help save the habitat. It's free...and so wonderful. I click each and every day...on all the boxes !

That is such a good idea. You could expand on those weeks you have. During chef week, you could try foods from a region or country.
gardening, nature, animals, maybe have a litature week with books geared for their age. I think you could take all of these and have several weeks worth of stuff to teach and play! Smart Idea!!

Sounds great :)
I would suggest that rather than having a craft and/or food week you try to incorporate a craft and a snack/meal to fit your weekly theme EVERY week (I did this a lot as a Girl Scout leader.)
Other ideas:
art & music
community heroes (police/fire, etc.)
outdoors(gardening, hiking, environment)
animals, birds and bugs that are native to your community
Have fun!!!

oceans
states
nature/the environment
gardening
music
theater
books/reading

The olymipics sounds like lots of fun.

Have a great summer!

Space
Oceans/Sea Life (trip to the aquarium)
Animals (trip to the zoo)

How about something with a little more meaning to life.
Growth
Giving
Heroes
Love thy neighbor

This is an idea that I think others could build on : ) It is not what you know but how you use the information that you know. This approach has worked very well for my kids. My 6 yr son is in the gifted and talented program and my 4 yr daughter says amazingly profound things. And all three of my children have amazing compassion and how much better off our world will be when more people master that simple concept, something not so readily taught in school yet.

Often my kids will show interest in something and I will try to expand upon that. Just a couple of days ago my sweet little guy grabbed one of his blackberries and proceeded to plant it in one of my random containers in the back yard. He is very excited to see it grow God bless his heart but it was not the right soil or conditions for it to grow in. So, I gave it some time to see if anything would sprout but as I thought nothing came. So we have to sit down with some art now and discuss how a plant needs a good foundation to start to grow and how this applies to life and of course there are beautiful Biblical parables related to growth and foundation. After our conversation I thought about planting something from seed or buying a berry plant that is already started.

Usually I like to plan to do things and then identify a virtue that can be taken home and focus on that. However, it may easier to focus on the virtues and then plan something accordingly : )

How about Science week and Math Week. This website is a great resource for science experiments http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/. There are lots of fun things to do with science that teach. My kids love to play with dry ice, diet coke and mentos and vinegar and baking soda. You don't have to order the stuff from Steve Spangler, because a lot of the experiments are stuff you can buy anywhere. But there are some neat kits and stuff that my kids have enjoyed like the instant snow! For Math Week look online for fun math games, play math games and with the 2 year old practice counting, etc.