I am so overdue for a post!

We have been so busy homeschool wise! We have been on more field trips and doing a lot of experiments. Here's some pics:

 

Kids in Williamsburg, VA

 

 

Williamsburg part 2

I'm back- finally! Our trip to Williamsburg was sooo much fun. The heat index was 100 but we made the best of it and had a lot of water and plenty of free refills. Since Williamsburg is only about an hour and half away from where my in-laws live, we decided to go while on vacation in Virginia. I didn't expect so many people to be there, but it was still nice. My oldest son, who is my hands on learner, really got into it.

I went to the site online before we left and I knew the first thing I wanted to buy were the colonial hats for my sons. I never said anything to them about it. When ds saw the hats he said, "Mommy, can you pllleeeaaasssseee buy us a hat?" I smiled and bought three. You can see ds & ds enjoyed theirs. My daughter and I decided that we would make our hats when we returned home as part of home ec. The boys also talked me into buying them small wooden muskets. They tried to get the long guns, but I had to consider my sanity. I could see them once we got home- either hitting each other with them or knocking something over in the house. But they were content with what I got them.

We ate at Chowning's Tavern for lunch. Pretty good food. We mainly stayed on the Duke of Glouster Street. After being in the heat, we were so glad that the buildings were air conditioned. We also walked Nicholson Street. When they say you can't see it all in one day- they really meant it.

Williamsburg

Well- we finally made it to Colonial Williamsburg and loved every minute of it!

It was extremely educational. My oldest son kept telling me thank you the entire time we were there! My husband was excited and would often leave me behind.

I will update more and tell all tomorrow.

Jamestown

Wow! I hadn't realizd how long it had been since I had last written something.

After decorating at a wedding for a dear friend of mine and celebrating my 14th wedding anniversary, the time really did fly.

Later on this week, we will be taking a mini vacation to Jamestown and possibly Williamsburg, Virginia. Thankfully its an hour away from the area my husband grew up in and my in-laws are still there. I am very excited because this is an answered prayer. Last year, I read through our curriculum and saw that we would be covering Colonial America. I prayed and told the Lord I really would love to be able to take my family on a mini vacation. I didn't know where the money would come from, but the desire never decreased. Amazingly, over the last couple of months, my small business of decorating has picked up, and I now have a enough money for our little vacation- I can even buy trinkets and stay in a hotel over night!!!

"Behold, I am the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?"

I can answer and say, NOOOOO! There is nothing to hard for the Lord!

Hail Storm

Last week, we had a serious hail storm hit in our area. I had never seen anything like it before! Earlier in the school year we had a lesson about the ten plagues of Egypt, so it was very interesting for all of us to see and imagine how it would be for the Egyptians along with the hail mixed with fire.

My husband was at church at the time of the storm and our van has some dents and dings, but thankfully none of our windows broke.

Here are some pics. My sons and I gathered some of the hail to put here on the blog. I was amazed at the different shapes of hail and I have included a pic of my favorite one.

    

 

 

    

 

 

Right Now

Well, I have decided to basically end our school year in the chapter we are in with the Weaver and continue for a month or two concentrating on finishing up lapbooks that never got finished. I think it will be a nice review of our school year. And I would like for dd to finish up her math book along with ds. I told them the end of the year schedule and they were happy. It's as follows:

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  Bible lesson review
  
  


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  Handwriting Without Tears- purchased at the homeschool convention last month. I didn't want to wait for the next year.
  
  


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  Math
  
  


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  Wisdom Words - it's a language arts program by the Weaver author. I want them with a fresh start next school year in this program.
  
  


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  Spelling- I bought new books with a different format than we had used previously. The kids like it a wwwwhhhhhhooooolllllleeeee lot better than what we had been using.
  
  


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Tomorrow I will post pics of hail we collected after a serious hail storm. I have never seen anything like it!