Nursing Mermaid Sculpture

I just felt like bragging.

I just picked up Lovely from art class, and look at what she created this week, and last week. It is a mother mermaid, nursing her baby while her daughter looks on.

I swear, it just flows and has life! I adore it. What a treasure. I teared up. The nursing is just so tender! And I love how the mother and daughter's "eyes" meet...or seem to!

Sorry...I just had to brag!!! :) Much love!!!

Zumba Class!

So, we started a new class this week for our PE time - children's Zumba, Lovely LOVED it. And you can't be the price - $7 a class!

The teacher was so great, and at the end of the class she had the stretch on the floor in a circle. She joined them and affirmed them for being strong and healthy. It was really touching!

Gift and Valiant enjoyed the class too! They watched and danced from the sidelines. Gift even stretched on the floor too...hehe!

 

Up Close Lizard Study

There is nothing better than the schedule homeschool affords us! I love being able to do schoolwork then just escape the rest of the afternoon outside. While we sadly don't have a backyard to enjoy anymore since moving, we are blessed to live near many playgrounds and state parks. Yesterday we took advantage and met our co-op friends for an afternoon of fun in the cool breezes. There was lots of imaginative play, exercise, fort building, sandbox playing, tree climbing, and most fun of all? Playtime with a very patient (or stunned) lizard. It allowed the kids to hold it, it went everywhere with them riding on their shoulders, chests, etc. It was pretty neat!

Isn't that neat??!! It's like Paschel from the movie "Tangled"!

And, as I mentioned - the kids and their co-op pals had a blast building and playing:

It was such a FUN afternoon! We so love our co-op pals! It's fun learning and exploring together!

More of Aa Week...

I'm not sure why the above interpretation of Paul Cezanne's Apples (Click here)  is sideways. but that is blogger for you.

Part of the Waldorf style method I'm doing this summer includes living books, art study, and more. The girls took some time to study Cezanne's painting online and we discussed the colors, what we liked about it, and then Lovely tried to recreate it by memory and her interpretation of it. I liked what she came up with!

We also do some refresher work in math and geography. 

More to come of Bb and Cc week!

Aa - Along the Alphabet Path

Good Afternoon!

I am finding a nice minute to blog our start to our journey Along the Alphabet Path and though we are not done (I still need to read our saint and fairy stories and do some art work and writing) we have enjoyed exploring Aa this week. We'll be moving quickly since this is a summer plan, so we will also be doing B and C this week before VBS starts up.

While I don't have pictures of our apple pie (we ate it too fast!), here are some other pictures of our Awesome Aa exploration! I'll add more pics as we go.

Here, we attempted the letter A with all three kids, but little Gift (our son) doesn't seem to get the memo:

The big hit (and I forgot to snap pics) was a scavernger hunt with baskets to find items in our home that start with the letter Aa. We found an American Girl Doll:

an angel....

an alligator....

"A" cute little boy...

We also read some great books:

We love Amelia Bedelia! She cracks us up!

We made our apple pie and did some GREAT geography (we are still building on it, we look at a country mentioned a day) from this book: How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World.I can't say check this book out fast enough! Go get it from the library. It is a great book! Great for science.

Other great stories we have read nightly or daily have been:

Angels, Angel Everywhere
Angelina Ballerina
The Art Lesson
The Little Airplane
and my childhood copy of The Value of Love: The Story of Johnny Appleseed

We also had an Aa picnic...we had apples....

and Aa shaped sandwiches....

Even little Gift had an Aa lunch!! Look carefully...

somehow our cheese even looked like an A:
 

It was a lovely way to relax and start our summer Along the Alphabet Path....

 

Natural History and Science Discoveries

Lovely looking through "night vision" goggles....(see next pic)

The view in her goggles (you see an alligator, possum and other animals)

Using a pulley

Microscope discoveries

native turtle

SSSSssssssssss....

Counting tree rings...

Bee Hive

Discovery Club House

log discovery

And reason #530 I love homeschooling together?

Learning with friends...

is always MORE fun!!!

The girls were listening to the audio CD of "Story of the World" and coloring in pictures and maps. It was really sweet how into they were....

Frontier Days

We recently took a family field trip to our local state park for their annual Frontier Days. We got to see what pioneer life was like in various forms from housing, culture, food and so much more. Here are some of our highlights. What a GREAT family learning experience!