September Homeschooling Memories

Here are a few moments in our homeschooling day that I was able to catch on camera. These pictures show the little moments that I treasure during the day. In between these moments, our life is a crazy mess full of squabbling, mistakes, corrections, fighting, dirty dishes, laundry, chicken nuggets, and scattered toys. I am not complaining but just letting the reader know that we are real people living real lives. The homeschooling part is hard but these moments are what keep us going. If life was clean, that means my kids would be out of the house and all grown up. I am not ready for that, so bring on the crazy messy HOUSE!

Once a week, I get to rotate through the kids CC day with them to learn our new memory work for that week. This week was Andrew's turn. Isn't he adorable?! He was so proud of his abstract art work. Also, I was able to sneak a picture of his family history presentation. LOVED LOVED LOVED IT!

We love painting...probably too much but oh well. Oakley is absolutely in love with it. She walks around asking for "paint" and then for "let it go." Meaning, she wants me to print out an Elsa picture for her to paint. At least she know what she wants.

We took a field trip day to the Heard Craig Museum of Nature. During the fall they have robotic dinosaurs on display. The kids LOVED them, plus we were able to work on some memory work for CC by deciding which type of consumer each dinosaur was. YES!! I love it when fun and learning are combined. This first picture was of a deinonychus dinosaur that spat water at the kids. We were at this dinosaur for the longest amount of time. Andrew even started to play pretend and pull our his Iron Man moves against the dinosaur. Flips, spins, kicks, and tuck and rolls created an intense battle.

Every time we come to this museum the mini pioneer village is a huge hit. Add the dinosaur dig area and they kids were in heaven. It sure was a fun packed day.

Isaac is in a phase of baking and creating. Every day he asks to bake a cake, make jello, bake cookies, or anything else I will let him make. He got really creative one day and prepared our lunch with these silly faces. The strawberry cake was a jello cake. He was so proud of himself, and so was I.