My Tuesdays

If this is HOMEschool why did I put over 50 miles on my car in one day? The funny thing is I was never farther than 3 miles from my house! 

Science

For Science Co-op we were learning about blood. The kids did an experiment to find out what blood type they were. Some of the kids poked themselves some had helpers do it. They were all so brave and tried it.

 Hannah trying to poke herself and get enough blood for the sample.

 Mrs. Laura had to help Hannah get enough blood. I love the expression on Courtney's face as she waits.

Not sure this is correct. We are pretty sure she is A-

School Days

School has started once again. I didn't get any pics on the first day, but at least I got them in during the first month. =) This is the beginning of our 11th year homeschooling. Wow, the time has gone by so fast. It feels like only yesterday I was only doing this  to get Isaac ready for kindergarten. Where does all the time go?

7th Grade

Freshman

1/2 of the  Reading List for 7th Grade

Freshman reading list

I got this idea from my friend Heather. I took pics of the kids on our first full day of school. Isaac is entering the 8th grade and will be 14 in October. Hannah is entering 6th and is 11.

Owl Pellets

For science co-op the kids had to dig through owl pellets in search of rat bones. Pretty cool and disgusting all at the same time.

Election Day 2008

The day started early, we needed to go to a neighboring precinct to hand out materials for our congressman. We needed to be there by 6 a.m. and we had about a 30 minute drive. We left a little after 5 a.m. so we would have plenty of time to get there.....

Isaac and Hannah were great, smiling faces at 5 a.m.

We arrived to our polling station almost an hour late. I had bad directions, it was dark, I'd never been to Suffolk and it was raining. Did I mention it was dark? To make a long story short, when I felt that I was going the wrong way I decided to make a U-turn and didn't see a ditch on the side of the road. I almost went in, thank God I stopped before we went in all the way but now my front tires were stuck. God provided by bringing us an E.M.T. who let us sit in her ambulance out of the rain until a police car and tow truck could get there.... So after about an hour wait and $75 later we arrived at the polls. (Sorry, no pics I didn't grab my purse when the E.M.T. had us get out of the car:(
The Eakes joined us later in the morning with hot chocolate and coffee. The boys were having a contest on how many fliers they could hand out before they were rejected. Isaac won with 6!



After working at the polls we went to breakfast at Cracker Barrel:)

At 7 p.m. we met as a co-op to watch the election results. We presented our reports on presidents, states, and history of the political parties . We also displayed our reports from earlier in the unit study. (Sorry, everyone, it didn't seem like a lot of work when I was planning in July:))
One assignment was to take our views and match them against the two candidates.





Once President Elect Obama had 200 electoral votes we knew once the polls closed on the west, he would be declared the winner. We took time out of our activities to pray for him and our country.

Thanks everyone for all your hard work and great reports!

Election 2008 part 2

During our Election study we went to Congressman Randy Forbes kick off campaign party.

We were greeted by a fife and drum corp.

Great Entertainment
The Hunt Family

Congressman Randy Forbes

The kids even enjoyed their first ride on a school bus!

For Co-op each of our families had to create a stump speech campaign.

Part of our "campaign" was to pose for campaign posters...
any future presidents out there?