April and May School Fun!

It is the end of the school year and it has been such a great year! The end of the year has been filled with fun events so I will highlight those here!

 We had fun at the end of the year celebration at Classical. They did fun doing science and measurements with gummy worms.

 At New Life, we got to play some games. Lily brought her Disney guessing game.

 At Classical, her class got up and did states and capitals. They did a great job!

 Lily also got a certificate for doing well!

 At New Life, we went on a field trip to the fish hatchery in Branson.

 We also went to the 50's diner with all of our friends!

 Valerie has a very fun teacher at New Life who loves science and hands on fun. She helped Valerie to make this and to then find and sort on their nature walk.

 Brooklyn and Lily made "God's eyes" when they were learning about Mexico for Cinco de Mayo.

 We also had a special spanish teacher come and fly us to Mexico to learn some of the language.

 The girls loved learning the words for happy and sad!

 They also enjoyed making this face to remember the words for face!

 No Cinco de Mayo celebration is complete without a pinata!

 We also went on a family camping trip with our cousins and grandparents to learn about the great outdoors!

 Fun day at the zoo to learn about animals!

 We brought lots of friends along! :)

 The last day of New Life Homeschool Co-op involved lots of fun games and we got awards from our teachers. I love the words that they wrote on the back of the award for my girls!

 The girls had such great teachers! They were so blessed.

 Here I am with my girls on the last day of school! We will miss our teachers and friends, but we are ready for summer!!! :)

March Homeschool Fun

March Fun!

This month was one of the craziest of the year. We were so busy with foster kids visiting and both sets of cousins visiting during their spring break. The amazing part is that we still stayed up on our homeschooling with just one week of spring break that we actually took. Here are a few things that we did this month.

At New Life Homeschool Co-op, Valerie has an awesome science teacher. She sent the kids home with bulbs to grow and books to keep track of the growth of their flower. At the bottom of the page, is a picture of her flower when it bloomed!

Lily has been studying the state of Washington. Here is a copy of her three paragraph paper on the state before she edited and re-wrote it! We are working on the editing process this week!

We also had fun at a kite festival. We made hats and had Chinese snacks.

The girls had fun decorating their kite.

 Their kite flew great! It was the perfect day for it! The kite only lasted a few days though. It got stuck in Lily's bike tire!

 Our co-op took a fun field trip to Sac River Stables to ride and groom horses! Very fun!

Here is Valerie's beautiful flower!

Spring is a hard time in the area of school. Kids want to be outside and need change. I looked through Lily's curriculum and she is way ahead in reading and writing. For the month of April, I plan to double up on math and history! I think Lily will enjoy that for a period. I want her to read and write more for fun right now! :)

February School stuff!

We signed Valerie up for an art class at Noah's art. She loved it! She is such a good little student and listens so well to her teacher. She had a lot of fun with this.

We took a fun trip to the Discovery Center in Springfield. It was the free day which always makes it more fun for me! The kids all had a blast discovering new things!

We have been doing a science unit on the digestive system so it was fun for them to add some hands on activities to that learning.

Lily's favorite part was writing a little article for the news paper!

 At Classical Conversations, they learned about cartoon illustrators during art class. Lily made this cartoon! So cute!

Junior Bible Quiz is over for the season. It was a lot of work, but Lily misses it and can't wait for next year! Lily and her team mates wer so shocked when they won first place for their division. Lily won fifth place for her age group.

At New Life Homeschool Co-op, we had a fun field trip to Ruttledge Wilson Farm. The kids loved petting animals and hearing stories about farm animals!

These are just a few of the fun things we did in Februrary! Lily also learned how to subtract by borrowing and is working on fractions and measurement. In reading, we read Alice in Wonderland. It was a very challenging read with new vocabulary. She really loved it and we celebrated by watching the Disney cartoon version.

January School Stuff!

I like to have a blog every month with just a little of what is going on with the girls and their school experience. For whatever reason, I had a hard time getting these pictures to download so they may not be in the right order.

January has actually been a very fun month. The weather has been unseasonably warm so we have been outside a lot and we are loving that!

We also joined a new homeschool co-op. It is called Classical Conversations and their are many of these all over the country. That is great if we ever move. We go every Monday from 9am-1pm. The curriculum is very challenging, but we are really enjoying it. There is a lot of memory work. They also have art and science experiments each week. They also do presentations each week. Below is a picture of her doing geography!

We are still doing New Life Homeschool Co-op. Both of her teachers, were also public school teachers and she is learning so much there. Below is a vinn diagram she did on plants and animals.

Lily also started violin this month. We are enjoying it, but it is expensive and it is hard to get into the idea of practicing daily. I really do hope that it gets easier! lol

Below is a project that Lily did for me. For art, she copied the cover of a book that she had on Abraham Lincoln. Then she wrote what she learned about it him from the story. I think she did an excellent job!

This is one of her art projects from Classical Conversations. She is learning about a different artist each week and then trying her hand at their style of art! Isn't it beautiful!

Valerie enjoys both co-ops too. Here she is with some of her little friends, Addie and Josie, learning about shapes!

She also made a collage the other day at co-op. Her daddy was quick to ask her why she put a football player on her collage. She said, "For you Daddy!" Isn't that sweet! So I asked her what she put on there for me. She replied, "I guess Jack the Elf!" Sure, like I believe that! lol

Valerie really enjoys writing. That is her favorite thing to practice at. She wrote her abc's for the first time with no help from Mommy. Oh wait, she did copy it off her chart though! :)

Lastly, we had a fun field trip in January. Oh wait it is February 1st! Oh well, it was suppose to be the January field trip! We went to Noah's Art! They did story time art for our group. They read, "If you give a Mouse a Cookie!" Then the kids made mouse ears, cookies, little mice, and painted with water color to find hidden pictures. They also had stations set up for making bead necklaces and collages. It was very fun!

Here at the end is just a picture of Lily with her wonderful violin teacher!

Snow Day 2012

 So although snow is not my favorite thing, my girls love it!!!!!!!!!! They were so excited to play in the two inches we have and more snow is still coming down!

 Daphne wouldn't stop moving. She loved it out there and actually really enjoyed putting on all of her snow gear! She cried when I made her come back in after 20 minutes of playing in the freezing cold!

 Ofcourse, every little kid knows that you have to taste the snow. lol

 Lily was cold after making a snow angel!

Look on the bright side!

 Around this time of the year, Jason's job slows down. Since he is paid mainly commission, this is a stressful time! However, we are going to enjoy having Daddy home more with us while it lasts! So far, we have been to Chuck-E-Cheese, Silver Dollar City and the Springfield Nature Center!

 Lily said, "We are so blessed to have you as our Mommy and Daddy because you take us to fun places. We hadn't been to any of these places in a long time, but you love to make us happy!"

We had the greatest New Years Eve party. We spent it with Mandy Hanson and her sweet kids! We played games and studied the life of Jesus Christ. What a perfect way to bring in the new year. So thankful for that time with my friend!