Totally Fun Day...and why am I homeschooling?

Totally fun day!  Spent the day at a friend's house for a "homeschool group"  practically all day.  Hope that was OK, Janelle...Day looked like this:

"Treasure Hunt" (Clara was totally into this and proud of her guesses and finds for the nature table)

Zip Line (Clara's favorite, and even I did it this time!  Exhilirating and a tad scary.  Simon climbed up this time!))

Building a "bridge" in the stream with rocks (Clara's knee still hurts from the fall, but she says it was still fun)

Rope swinging

Making Stone Soup complete with stone (delicious!)

Taking our chicks for a ride in the wagon out to the chicken tractor for an hour of "hardening"

Playing the new favorite homemade "golf ball rolling" game complete with the "crossover move"

Making a list of all of the animals we have seen on our farm (after seeing a 4-inch-long preying mantis on our window, of which Todd looked up and told us all about...by the way, the kids really liked the part where the female eats the male after mating with him) and putting them into a classification chart (Yes, this was my idea, and I got an "oh, mom, this is so you" for this idea.  But then they got totally into it as usual and even included their friend, Rita, as a mammal.  hee.hee)

Clara telling me that it would take 8 crickets (at 1/2 inch each) to equal the length of the preying mantis on our window

Loads of singing and impersonations today!

More reading by Clara from Dr. Seuss

Prep for tomorrow's big day

I'm probably forgetting some great stuff...

Playing it up with great friends...priceless