1st day of Science class

I have enrolled K into a science class with other homeschoolers at a local private school.  Every other week he gets to go and join in a class that's learning about the human body. 

Before he started school he needed a backpack.  We went out and he picked out his backpack; he was so proud to have his own backpack.  The day he got it he showed it everyone and had to wear everywhere.  Here he is in his beloved backpack getting ready to head out for his 1st day of class.

 

His 1st day they got an overview of the human body.  the class is full and lots of fun.  We are a few weeks into class now and they have learned about cells,bones, muscles and the cardiovascular system.  Since his class is only every other week we are also studying the human body at home.  We are working on a lap book to go along with our studies.  Which I hope will help K to hold onto the info that he learns this year.

Have a wonderful day

Legoland field trip 2012

 We had a field trip to Lego land Florida with our homeschool group.  There we're over 300 of us all from Brevard.

We got up before the sun to arrive at Lego land with the sun rise.  Our family was the first to arrive but the line of cars started showing up less than a minute later.



This is our group for the get moving class.  The kiddos in this group we're all in K-3rd grade.  They had a nice little class time learning about movement.  Than it was time to make groups of two and build a car to race.  K and his partner kept changing up their car until it was time to race.  Great teammates

once class was over we got to explore the rest of the park for the day.  Great park.  They really get the kids moving and thinking.  K loved the driving mini cars on a mini roadway.  They we're basically teaching the Little's how to drive and follow the rules of the road in a controlled and fun matter.  Most kid's didn't take it serious but K on the other hand was really practicing.  Looking behind him like daddy does and driving with one hand like mama.  What they pick up on when they are in the car with us.

They had some small roller coaster but for the most part they we're rides that you had to us your body to get the rides full effect.  a pedal ride that if you wanted to go up you better pedal.  a boat that you had to drive around a course (not on a track).  putting out a fire, they had to get their fire truck to the fire and put out the fire and than get back.  Lots of huge playgrounds for the kiddos to run and play. 

We had a great day from opening until 3 when we finally started to feel our 4AM wake up call

Schooling in the simplest form

We made peanut butter cookies and K learned how to follow direction from the back of a bag (Yes we used a Betty Crocker pouch) and the kitchen aid.

Here he's learning the criss cross on top. 

We finished and sprinkled them with sugar and baked them

Pure JOY on his face

We're on Christmas Vacation from school

We're on Christmas Break

I guess that means we stay in our PJ's all day and watch Christmas movies

                                                      

                                       Merry Christmas from our home to yours

Learning about clouds and America

Our week of December 5th-8th

We started our study on clouds this week.  Learning the main types of clouds and their scientific names.

Here K is painting clouds..as you can see he added some rain to a few of his clouds.  This project was needed for his writing paper the following day.

Writing about the type of cloud that he painted a picture of

This is our cloud chart where we wrote some features of clouds that K knew before we started our study of clouds.

We are also learning about our country.  This is a short series as we are just doing short series this school year and next school year we are planning on covering the USA in depth state by state.

This week we are learning about the flag, our freedoms, the symbols of our country.

This next week we are working on finishing up our reading and phonics books and getting ready to start the next set of books after Christmas.

We are doing a fire theme this week for community helpers that we started last week but this week is hands on.  Look fwd to the pictures at the end of the week.

Have a joyous week

We're playing catch up

As of November 3rd we've been playing catch up with school.  I have a schedule for school and for the past 2 months that schedule was blown out the door because of personal reasons.  K and I have been working all day getting back on track.  We should be there by the end of the month.  YIPPEE we need routine in our life.

1st day back we had a airshow practice.  This was our favorite F-18 who gave us a pretty thrilling show before the show.  I wish I would of gotten it on video.  On his last run he flew right above our house and nice and low.  Freaked out the dogs but it was awesome.  Hubs knows the pilot so he was able to pass on the remarks from us to him :o)

Getting down to business with some writing

Practicing counting money combinations

mainly using the penny,nickles and dimes 

Practicing marking words and reading them

Week 1 of catch up is now under our belts with 2 more to go. 

Stay tuned for a video later this week

Have a blessed day

I'll be back this week

Sorry for the LONG time away.  We had some major family issues the past 2 months.  I could hardly breathe and think about anything for my in the home family that blogging was the last thing on my plate.  But it's over with now with a visit to the airport.  This last few days I just sat back and relaxed to re-coop a little.  I spent a some time yesterday (Saturday) getting things ready for some school catching up.  Yes we have a schedule with our studies that it's CATCH UP time.  Phew see you later this week with some school photo's