Rain, cool front, perfection

According to the kids' weather tracking notebooks, the last month has been very rainy. It seems as if every day has brought at least some rain.

Inside, Mirek gives kisses. He is VERY loving.

 Naia playing softball in the rain.

 I love watching her team. So entertaining!

 A cool front blew threw on Monday which is always fun.

 Eaden and Lynni singing This Little Light of Mine.

 Perfect weather Tuesday called for a day at the park and zoo.

 Chasing pigeons.

 Eaden striking a pose for Lynni.

 Waiting for the show at the Butterfly Stage.

 Throwing insects into the Angler Fish's mouth.

 Trying to match the skin to the animal.

 Preparing to throw fish into the Pelican's beak.

 Eaden identified some different types of oak trees and brought her findings into the swap shop to rack up some more points.

 Serious investigations going on.

Perfect weather. Perfect day. It just doesn't get much better than this.

Back at it

Here are Naia and Eaden last Saturday before softball and gymnastics. Eaden was supposed to dress up as a superhero.

 My grandpa died last week and Lynni had a death in her family as well. She had to drive to Mexico and I was driving back and forth to New Braunfels. We took the week off of homeschool.

But back to normal this week!

 We have been sending and receiving lots of mail.

Taven was very excited to get a postcard from his buddy Aidan.

 Naia received mail from her cousin Abby.

 We finally finished our Aztec lapbooks. I am thinking we will start using Story of the World again for history. It makes things a lot easier for me and if the kids are not interested in something we will just skip it.

 Working around Mirek can be a challenge!

 And of course no one saw him turn into a smurf.

 

This week's poem.

Learning about the Aztecs and making feather fans.

 Bathing chickens.

 We actually lost two of our chickens yesterday. They were the last two left of our original three. I am not too sure what happened, but I think the younger chickens may have had something to do with it.

We learned about why we have night and day and seasons.

 A play-dough Earth and a flashlight sun.

 Naia started up fall ball!

What homeschooling looks like when cooler weather arrives. Hallelujah!

The last couple of days have been quite cool outside. The kids camped in the tent last night (not for the entire night) and we did math in the tent this morning. It is still too hot to be in the tent in the middle of the day, but not too hot to play out front in the dirt.

Here is Lynni doing her math in the backyard yesterday. She is still adjusting to the noise (scream) level in our household and I thought she might be able to focus a bit more outside.

 In the tent last night.

Math in the tent this morning.

Experimenting with light and color is always fun!

 With tent gymnastics mixed in...of course.

Playing in the dirt with the grubs.

 Quick art break for Naia.

 Tracing each other on the sidewalk with chalk.

 Math with grubs (and other creatures).

 Taven talking to his friends telling them "it will be okay."

 A book and some rocks. What else could one possibly want?

 Naia yelled "Oh no! The ants! They've got our grub!" In other words, homeschool science class.

I am so thankful that my children and Lynni are not stuck in a classroom all day. Everyday, I am thankful for that. Fall should not be spent inside. Life is precious and our children are meant to EXPERIENCE it.