Field Trip: 1st Annual Pirate Festival in Charleston SC

We had a good time at the Pirate Festival. Hard to believe this was the first one. Of course we dressed them up and headed down town. Lots of activities for the kids to do. They got to paint a pirate and make a sword out of newspaper. They also met many pirates. Black beard and Mary Reed. The kids sat and listened to the pirates tell stories of their lives and were able to ask questions. They got to participate in a battle and walk in a pirate parade and pretend to shoot a gun.

They also got to go on the coast guard boat who was a sponsor at the festival Daniel like she big gun.

First day of School 2013-14

This was our first day of Classical Conversations. This is our 2nd year doing CC and my first year tutoring. I have Daniel's class 6 boys!

Homeschool boys Lego club

We were very blessed to get Daniel into a all boys homeschool Lego club this Spring. He has loved participating it and and making these lego creations. He can't wait to go every other week.

Learning numbers with Bingo

I decided to play Bingo to help Sydney and Kenny learn to recolonize numbers and letters. Daniel was a big helper with his sister and brother, showing them the ones that I called. It was a fun way to learn and the best part is no one knew it was "school" because we were having such a great time. Sydney won the first game and Daniel won the next 3 in a row. Kenny gave up after the first game and just played with the "chips".

Classical Conversation End of the Year program

We finished CC on April 1st. it was a great year. I am so proud of the kids.

Homeschooling in PJ's

Does anyone else do it differently? Well we are about a 50/50, PJ's/clothes type of school. On this morning the kids asked me if they could go to the pool since it opened on April 15th and I said yes after we finished school. So exactly at 7:22am the kids sat down to begin school to finish early for enough pool time. We normal don't start until after 9:30am.. Its interesting that when they want to do something they will start school early.. Normally I am begging them to get started.. lol.

Bee City Homeschool Field trip

We had fun visiting Bee City in Cottageville, SC. They had a lot more than just bees. Lots of animals to feed. We brought one of our neighbors with us since she was out for spring break and she had never been.