The Ring of Truth

We had a Saint Patrick's Day party at our house.  Everyone came wearing green and I sprinkled magic green glitter in their hair (except for all of the silly boys who thought it was too girly.)  As they were running around in the backyard, I thought there was no way I would be able to get them interested in sitting down to hear a story, but they were all so cute and polite and sat down quickly.  (Homeschooled kids are the best!)  I read The Ring of Truth by Teresa Bateman.  The kids had fun saying what they would do if they were in the story and predicting what would happen next.  Afterward they played a couple of games and we then let them loose to eat green cupcakes and run around the backyard.

Soccer Star?

Here are a couple of pictures to show Joey how Sylvia is really helping us get our money's worth out of these soccer lessons.

Poetry Reading

Last night we attended a poetry reading put on by all of the homeschooled children.  Each child had memorized a poem and performed with actions they had made up.  They all did such a good job.  Afterward all of the families played some games and then had treats.  Today Luke and Isabel had so much fun in Science.  Here's what I got from their excited chattering, their butterflies had come out and they were able to set them free, they made antenae out of pipe cleaners, made butterflies out of paper, and ate some fun "butterfly food."  The peas in a pod were the crysalis, the blueberries were butterfly eggs, some grapes on a toothpick was a catapillar.