Community Gardening Class/Field Trip

Here are some fun photo's of our field trip to Veteran's Park. We had a good time even though we were working. So proud of the kids and their hard work. 

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Field Trip: George Washington Exhibit

Before Christmas we finished a unit on the American Revolution and George Washington's life. There just happened to be an exhibit at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History on George Washington. How exciting for us. We were thrilled that our friends, Cindy and Ryan, have season passes and were able to invite us to go. It really made all we learned come alive and we learned even more.

I hope you enjoy our slide show. This didn't include the whole exhibit but I got what I could.

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Homeschool Field Trip: Public Library

We had a field trip to the Public Library. It was a lot of fun and very interesting. They kids enjoyed it very much. They got to see the workings of the library from behind the scenes. 

The librarian showed us the books they have in Braille. The kids got to feel the pages. 

He told us about the computer area and what is upstairs.

This is the room that has all the new books being sent to the different libraries around Arlington. 

The children's area was our last stop.

I didn't take pictures of each area. We first went to the area that the books are brought back and how they are sorted and returned to the shelves. We also got to see the teen section. It was just fun getting to see and hear about how the library works. 

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Homeschool Day And A Movie

Did you know that Friday, September 23rd was Homeschool Day? I didn't either until earlier that week. We found Homeschool Movie Club and then found them on fb. So what is Homeschool Day, you ask? Homeschool Day is a designated day where homeschooling families and groups from around the country gather at their local movie theater to support family friendly films. This is the first one and the movie for the day was Dolphin Tale. 

Dolphin Tale is about a special dolphin named Winter that was rescued when she was very young. She had to have the end of her tail removed because it was damaged when she got caught in a crab trap. The true story of Winter is amazing. And they did a great job on the movie. 

Friday's are our soccer day with AAHE, one of our homeschool groups. We had a great time playing and then went straight to the theater so we wouldn't be late.  

We have downloaded the study guide provided by Homeschool Movie Club and are working through some of it with HomeBase Homeschool Friends, our other homeschool group. We will be doing those "lessons" on three Thursdays instead of five even though there are five lessons. We meet every other Thursday. We will do something else during the month of November. 

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Schooling Outdoors

This school year has been so busy we have failed to take pictures and write about it. I will try to do better next school year! A few days ago we had a GREAT time. We found a nice spot in the middle the Highlands! Isn't that funny? Right in the middle of a shopping center. They have the landscape done so nicely with a "brook" running through it. We brought our lunch, math books and towels to sit on and had a fine picnic. We went into Borders afterwards to read a bit.

I am not sure what all we will find today at the book fair. We have talked about doing history and science during the summer months on our off weeks from summer activities. I think it will be much easier to do science when Dad isn't working the LONG hours he is now. Hoping that happens very soon. We are almost done with this years work. Soon I will have a 4th and 6th grader! yay! They are totally excited!

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Field Trip to the Park

Last week we had a day where we knew we wouldn't have any daycare kids until late afternoon. So I told the kids if they got up and got school done early we would spend the morning at the park. It was going to be a lovely day so we were very excited!

Our homeschool is relaxed in one way. The kids have their books in in a crate in the cabinet. Each morning they get them out and put them on the table. When they have completed a subject they put those books back into the crate. In the picture above they are working on their book study together. They had to look up some vocabulary words in the dictionary.

The park we went to was our favorite park from when my older two kids were little! It is called Creative Playground and it is on Fielder and Green Oaks. It is the best! We had many a birthday party there.

They loved running around all over the place and doing the rock climbing wall. They played for an hour and then JC rode his skateboard for a little while.

We took our drawing pads to the park so that after an hour of play they could get some art in. Nick drew the tire swing but wouldn't let me keep it or take a picture of it. He did a good job.

JC decided to draw a tree. He was very serious about his drawing. He really has a gift when it comes to drawing because it is something he loves to do. He wants to get all sorts of drawing materials so he can try lots of new styles.

I think he did a great job! He put all the little limbs on it and he loves to sign and date it. I wish he would learn to do it smaller so it takes up less attention from his drawing but I suppose that will come with time.

Jenni went around finding different leaves that she liked and she traced them and then taped them to the other page. That is a style in her nature book she learned from her last school.

This is her finished product. She didn't put them in the book exactly like she drew them. I had thought she would color the other ones or draw the lines on them but I think she was too tired from our day out. We had such a wonderful day. 

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Field Trip to the Circus

Two weeks ago we were given tickets to the circus in Fort Worth. It was such a treat because none of the kids got to go. We thought Sami was going to get to go with us but it didn't work out. We were very sad because she had never gone either. I know that sounds terrible that we never took them to the circus before, but there are a lot of things we have yet to do with our children. We are working on fixing that.

JC was the only one brave enough to ride the elephant! He loved it. It only went around in the ring twice. For $8 it should have gone around a few more times. But I suppose since we were gifted with the tickets it didn't hurt to spend that money on an elephant ride. He is the third from the front with a white cap on backwards.

The boys really enjoyed the motorcycles in a cage. There was a 10 year old riding one of them. It was something! It made me feel very nervous for them. They also liked the trapezes and high wire acts.

Jenni loved the rope climbers that spun around and did fancy moves in the air as they hung from silky material "ropes". She loved the poodles that did their act. There were also ladies that did fancy things with hula hoops.

JC took a picture of us and he did pretty good. All in all, we had a wonderful time at the circus. We love doing things with our family! What a blessing our friends are, too! Thanks so much for the tickets. It was a blast!

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***Since then we have discovered how badly they treat the elephants and other animals so we don't have any plans to return to the circus unless that changes. We are glad they got the experience of going and are thankful for the free tickets.