In Our Homeschool this Week... In addition to the kids' regular checklist of activities ( see A Day in the Life post) we worked on "Last Days of Summer Outdoor Challenge 2012" ( thanks Barb at A Handbook of Nature Study blog), finished our summer photo books, and started working on our science fair projects ( a homeschool mom friend is hosting a small science fair), and we went to see the movie "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" (during school hours :o)).My Favorite Thing this Week... The kids have been adamant about checking off every box in "The Last Days of Summer Outdoor Challenge", so last night we ate dinner outside, listened to crickets, played flashlight tag, made shadow puppets with flashlights, watched the stars, saw a bat, told ghost stories, and roasted marshmallows. It was lovely.
We're Reading... Chris is finishing the last book in The Nicholas Flamel series, Katie is reading Warriors series #5, Chelsea has read The Boxcar Children series #1,2, and is working on #3. Chris is reading Gregor the Overlander #2 to the girls. I'm still reading The One Year Adventure Novel, and I need to start reading Treasure Island to the kids (this is their homeschool book club book for this month.)
Places we're Going and People We're Seeing... The kids started their watercolor class this week and Katie and Chelsea are starting ballet Friday.
Things I'm Working on... trimming trees and getting ready for fall. What are you doing to get ready for fall ?
Glad to have found your blog here! We have been a bit crazy here on the coast, I dove in a bit too hard w/ schoolwork last week so we took most of Friday off to venture off into nature. So glad we did, everyone was in a much better mood after.
ReplyDeleteWe always do so much better after spending time in nature.
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