Day #13/175 Days

Today was Park Day. We love Park Day. We head out & meet up with other homeschoolers and let the kids play. The moms get a chance to chat. It's a win-win situation. It also counts as PE.

Miss H had a great time playing on the little set they have at the park for little people. She did make a break when I wasn't paying attention to the big set & I did have to do a retrieval from the very top of the play set but it was all good.

I think Conductor had a great time. Lego-Man took the next two photos (and a bunch of other photos of other people's kids). Conductor doesn't usually smile this big for me. Hmmm.....

Yesterday I made mention of making these "brain hats." They really only fit Mr. H so I took some photos with him sporting them. Aren't they cool?!?!?

After Mr. & Miss H went home for the day, I did manage to squeeze in some fun learning. We watched Jelly Telly. I need to remember that Tuesday is History day & Thursday is science day. The boys love watching Jelly Telly & today they learned about Benjamin Banneker. I like that Jelly Telly used clips from Drive Through History - we like that program.

We read four eBooks that I need to review for the TOS Homeschool Crew. I liked them. The subjects were varied but all presented well - earthquakes, bones/skeleton, nouns/adjectives, and flamingos. The boys liked them too so that was good.

We ended the day with the older boys working on their writing journals. It's short & simple but I want to continue to have them get used to writing daily. Right now they only have to do three sentences about a single topic. I'll increase that by a sentence each month.

Day #5/175 - Park Day

I belong to a large homeschooling group that is located in a nearby town. Well, nearby would be a relative term. They are replacing a bridge on the road there so it takes me just over 30 minutes to get there (the road is closed until the bridge is repaired). But this has been the closest group of homeschoolers for me since we moved here five years ago. It's a great and large group.

One of the leaders thought a Back-to-Homeschool Day in the park would be a great idea. That & our state association is promoting it & we are both county reps for that group. So we did it. And it was great!

It was wonderful to see over 10 families turn out. Now, I know many of you may shake your head at that, but for us, it was a HUGE turnout. We have over 40 families in our directory but rarely do we have more than 3-5 participate in events.

Sadly, I was so busy talking I only took about three photos. Here's two of the better ones....

Lego-Man shooting hoops.

Happy, Miss H & another friend playing Legos.

This was our attempt to keep them away from the

older kids rougher play. They loved it though.

We were there for almost two hours and it was a lot of fun. So much so that we are planning another one for a couple of weeks.