Update on our school adventures. LOTS of pictures!

I am not doing so well in the blogging department, but I have to say that we make up for it in our homeschooling ;o)  That must be where all of my time is going.  LOL!  I'll keep telling myself that anyway.  The following is an update on our recent homeschool adventures.  I am going to do some photo dumping in hopes of catching up.  The following pictures are of a recent trip to the Children's Museum of Memphis.  We went with our homeschool group, christian home educators of northeast Arkansas for a field trip.  We stayed ALL day, and the girls absolutely LOVED it.  Mango & a friend spent much of their time in the "grocery store".  They enjoyed being cashiers. You can also see the little ones playing dress up.  They also spent they spent a lot of their time with the Magformer tiles.  They enjoyed building some neat "castles".  We all had a wonderful learning day.

Next, we have a couple of pictures from Homeschool Day at Graceland. We are some music minded girls.  Therefore, we just couldn't resist a special day spent learning about the King of Rock and Roll!  Seriously.  We are only 45 mins from Memphis.  We just couldn't resist ;o)  Grandma & Great Grandma also joined in on the fun!

Next you'll see us having some "screen" time.  SnowCone is playing educational games (I HOPE) on the iPad while Mango plays some Reflex Math on the Mac.  We LOVE reflex math as it has really helped us with our math facts!  Whitley also LOVES her iPad BOB books as they have started her out in her reading journey.

You will see that we LOVE science experiments.  Absolutely LOVE!  The jar with the yeast mixed with the sugar to create carbon dioxide to blow up the balloon.  The jar without sugar didn't blow up that balloon.
















In these pictures, we are working on our morning notebooks.  They each have their own morning notebook.  It consists of age appropriate things such as a calendar, weather chart, temperature chart, days of the week, months of the year, good morning songs, prayer, bible verses, birthdays, holidays, seasons, etc.

Somebody has been into the chocolate!

We also like to do cooking projects.  As we studies about different types of birds, we made edible bird nests.  

We made tricorn hats like in the days of George Washington & Benjamin Franklin.

You can't celebrate Fall without going to a pumpkin patch complete with pig races, hay maze, pony rides, and corn box (instead of a sand box).

We really liked making berry ink and using a feather quill to sign our "John Hancock" just as they did when the Declaration of Independence was signed.  

You can't study Pennsylvania without making your own replica of the Liberty Bell...even if they end up on your head.

We grew a crystal tree

Homemade pizzas for lunch make it easy on Mom ;o)

Another Science experiment determining how many different colors combine to actually make up a color when we only see one color.

FYI, a great way to teach money is to open up your own Ice Cream shop.  TONS of fun.

Dad is joining in on our school days.  The girls think Dad is a super cool teacher, too!!  Filling & hanging a bird feeder as our study of birds comes to an end.

The zoo is educational, and you can't visit our zoo during the holidays without some physcial education on the ice skating rink.