Another great week here in ëBama.† Doncha’ just love Fall?† Even though as soon as we dragged all of our fall/winter clothes out and put up the sleeveless things a heat wave hit!† You would think after living here all my life I would realize that October does not mean COOL weather!†
Kei has been practicing so hard for ìTo Kill a Mockingbirdî.† This is the most line intensive play she has ever done.† She has 218 lines!† She knows them all but it is still nerve wracking.† Not knowing exactly what the actor is going to say that goes before each of her lines is making us a little stressed [yes probably ME more than her].† This is show week so it is going to be CRAZY.† These pictures are really bad because the lighting in there is horrible until the show.
We had been enjoying so many things in our homeschooling.† I found this site that teaches Life Skills. † It is mostly a little easy for Kei even though it is for High School kids but it may get harder.† It is different skills that Kei has already learned through osmosis I guess.† Things like ATM transactions, how to write a check, checking receipts and so much more.† We are doing Everyday Life right now.
We are loving Real Science 4 Kids Physics.† I had bought this last year and just started using it.† I have found some really good activities to go along with it here.††† We are using the ìForce and Motionî but there are tons of cool things.
We are on Chapter 9 in SOTW 2.† We love SOTW.† I know people have mixed feelings about it, but I am really glad I decided to use it.† She is still loving Teaching Textbooks.† I have used several different Math programs and this is her favorite so far.† Thanks again Theresa!
Friday we had our 2nd Skate Day of the year.† Kei has been working hard on her ìKnit Witsî.† She took about 15 items to sell; scarves, bracelets and hair extensions.† She sold everyone of them and got orders for 14 more things!† She was so excited.† She doesnít sell them for enough I think, but there is no way she can sell them for her ëtimeí.†† But she loves doing it so much and she just canít believe that people buy them.† I saw all these girls skating around with Keiís scarves and hair extensions.† It just tickled her to death.
We spent Saturday at the Fiddlers Convention.† We have been going to this for years.† There are people who enter this from 30 states.† There are 18 different categories, including several fiddle and guitar categories, harmonica, mandolin, bluegrass banjo, dulcimer, old time singing, banjo, and buck dancing.† It feels like you have stepped back in time to walk around and hear people playing fiddles and banjos and more.†† There was craft booths with everything imaginable.† We ate lunch under the trees and had a great day.† Helena, we thought of you and your family.† I wish I could have blinked you all there for the day.† It was so fun!
We also went to see “A Dolphin’s Tale” after church.† It is a wonderful movie.† I love the way it shows how kids learn so much when it is interest led.† We were so excited that the girl was homeschooled.† We still feel very privileged and lucky to homeschool.† We are proud to say “We homeschool”.
We are on the 2nd book in the Hunger Games.† To say we love it is an understatement. We go on rides just so we can listen.† Yes I know we can listen in the house but it is our CAR book. 🙂
The weeks are flying by and we are having such a blast.† Kei has decided to be either The Cheshire Cat or The Red Queen [punk version] for Halloween.† We love Halloween around here!†
Hope wherever you are, you are loving life, learning and giggling and having the times of your life.
Homeschooling Rocks!
Karen
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”†† ~George Eliot
theater takes over one’s life, yes? we are in crunch time with our theater right now. schooling is challenging in the midst of theater, piano, and dance! kuddos to you gals! kei looks like she’s having fun! 😉
1. You are an awesome homeschool mom.
2. We saw Dolphin’s Tale last night too and we always giggle and smile at each other when a child in a movie is homeschooled. 😉
My daughter, Grace, and I just read Hunger Games for the library Mother/Daughter bookclub. Ready to move on to Catching Fire now.
The bookclub was just ok … I think I am going to try to start one of my own.
Karen, your weeks are always packed with so much goodness and love…I agree with Mary that reading your posts make me smile 🙂
Hope this week has been off to a good start and that the performances go super well!!
I am glad Kei loves TT!!! We love Real Science for Kids and Story of the World, too! We are on Chapter 6 this week in Story of the World. I found Muhammed’s story fascinating and kept saying to the girls…who does that remind you of?
Tell Kei to break a leg from us!!! I can’t wait to see the pictures and hear how the actual performance went!!!!
Hopefully after the play your life will calm down and we can maybe do a Google+ hangout or have the girls do one?
Karen, your weeks are so amazing. Just full to the brim with goodness. With discovery and new experiences and so much joy! And hard work too, but you and Kei are so engaged, so present and excited by it, that I forget that somewhere in all that goodness is straight up big-time Learning, bigger and brighter and fuller than anything school might bring. You both make life glow from the inside out.
And I wish you HAD blinked us to that Fiddler’s convention!! I would have just loved to see that, and hear all that loveliness. My kids would have had a blast, and I think even my pure Jazz-ist hubby would have been tapping his feet 🙂 And of course, it would have been fantastic to be there with you both. That goes without saying!
I loved the skate dayóhow amazing that Kei sold all her wares. She’s so awesome. Please tell her how awesome I think she is! I am so thrilled for her with her play. How I wish I could be there to see it. More blinking required, Karen! We could both blink really really hard, and maybeÖ we could just appear there on your doorstep. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
I just finished all of the Hunger Games books… intense is all I can say!
I love the sock monkey hat. So cute.
Reading this post just made me smile. Yes, Homeschooling does ROCK!
Kei reminds me so much of myself at that age!! I love sock monkeys and had a hat similar to that. I also tried selling things I’d knitted. I love reading your posts!
I just saw the poster advertising the Hunger Games movie. I cannot fathom how they are going to make this into a movie. It will definitely have to be rated R –right??
I would have LOVED the festival. Grace is going to a Dulcimer Festival this weekend. A full day of lessons and a rental for $40! How can you beat that??!!
I always feel such joy when I see your posts Karen. You move through your weeks and I know they must be crammed between lessons and theater and your work….but what shows is the love you and your child share, the good friendships you have with others and the joy that every day brings you.