Learnin' Up the Youngins'

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Saturday, March 13, 2010

I am so proud of Emily! Today we went to the 4-H presentation day and Emily got up in front of a room full of people and did a presentation on dolphins. She spoke up , was poised and did an amazing job! She had a poster to set up, props and set the whole thing up all by herself, read well and did a beautiful job. Much applause and praise from other people. She won a green ribbon, a sticker and $3. dollars. She was just giddy for hours. Such a positive exsperience for her. I never could've done that at 7 years old. 4 months ago she felt too shy to say her name at meetings, now she's doing public speaking. . Amazing(I have video which i will add as soon as possible)

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Animal Rehabilitation Center

A local center had an open house and tour. Since children couldn't handle the animals , each child got to take a stuffed animal through and have it treated by the staff. They loved it. Right behind this facility was a local nature center so we went to that too. Fun trip!

The extra picture is Alison's first attempt at writing her name. She did a great job!

Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Amazing Dolphins

Emily has worked so hard on her dolphin lapbook. Turned out so cute! I just love it. I am so proud of her efforts on this. She worked very hard and pushed through when she was getting tired. She has learned a lot about dolphins, increasing her vocabulary with words such as echolocation, habitat, pod, mammal , practiced writing skills, and organized the layout of the book. Quite the artist too. Great job Emily!

Monday, December 28, 2009

Ready For the New Year

Time to get things ready to homeschool again after our holiday break. Drug out all the stuff from the cabinet. It would barely close and you couldn't find anything. Much better now. We also replaced our broken printer. Almost ready. I need to reorganise the office space and find all the stuff I should've done but didn't cause it got buried. Right now there's a Christmas tree in the way so it will have to wait a few days.

Emily got a 1/4 scale violin for Christmas and has been having fun picking out songs on the keyboard. We're going to play a lot of music over the winter hopefully.