Fun in the sun.

Now that it has warmed up, the days not only include housework, schoolwork, and paperwork, there's yardwork, too! But I do enjoy it. And there's still plenty of opportunity to play:

Baseball is still going. Hubby ran the pitching machine at the boys’ game. He wasn’t really supposed to catch the ball, but he and Mikey went for it at the same time.

Another day, another baseball injury. No his lip is not usually that size.





Friday my youngest turned five. He got that new bike, so now he can learn to ride.





Saturday was our town’s first enduro cross. It was a long, HOT day. Three of the boys and hubby rode, starting with practice races, then qualifiers, then the main events in the evening. Between them they won a 2nd, 3rd, and two 4th places.













That’s my helmet he’s wearing!


















Big frown! Sis did not want to be there in the heat.















Waiting for the qualifier.

It's hot, and it's taking too long.

But it was worth it in the end!

Last night we went to our neighbors’. Down at the pond the kids fished and swam,

then they all piled on the dock and had me pull them with the canoe. Even the dog tagged along.

homeschool--science D21

Week D21

Topic dinosaurs.

There are tons of resources on this topic.

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/dinosaurplanet/interactive/interactive.html

It's officially spring

We know it's spring when the hummers start buzzing our heads and stare in our windows, begging for food . . .

my tulips are out . . .

and there have even been days when the kids (and some extras) get to play outside.

soccer goes out with a bang

The past two weeks went by in a blur. The highlights:

There were soccer and/or baseball games almost every day, along with meetings and scouts and hubby working late. I don't think we made it home before 9:00 PM once.

We had a baseball game in a nearby one-team small town further up the mountain we live on. They still had several feet of snow piled along the road in some places, got very cold. But it is a nice, scenic backwoods drive from my house.

My daughter proved how much she really watches the games. My son caught the ball, and she wondered why he didn't get a point for it.

My oldest son got a lesson in fundraising. He worked his heart out selling $1000 worth of honey for his scout troop, we received the product this weekend and he was horrified at the small sizes of the products. He was sure that everyone would hate him for selling them what he thought was more for the money. I told him most people realize that's how fundraisers work, IOW, rip-off. So now we have lots of honey bears to distribute.

Friday I took my daughter and a load of girls three hours away to our final soccer games. Half the team stayed in a motel, and it was kind of fun (and a little nerve-wracking) to have a weekend without the little kids. We played a sort of beach ball game in the pool and sat in the hot tub (not used to sharing one--I usually have my four boys and people immediately vacate). The next day, we were missing one of our strikers due to a twisted ankle, and in the second half our other striker bashed heads with an opponent and got a concussion. So our last game we had no strikers and no substitutes. Ouch. But at least she's doing okay.

homeschool--cultural geography D20

Week D20.

Topic: Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon.


Now would also be a good time to learn where Myanmar is, with the recent cyclone there.


The students should learn the location of these countries on a world map and have a general idea of the culture/interesting facts of the area.


Iraq should obviously be a familiar name to everyone. It is the location of some of the most ancient civilizations: Sumer, Mesopotamia, Babylon. http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_iraq.html


Information on the other countries can be reached through links on this site as well.