We finally started Botany this week. We had planned this in September and I decided to wait until Spring.† Keilee is really liking it so far even though we are only in the 1st Chapter.†
1.††† Banagrams.† We played lots of games this week.† We love Banagrams.
2.††† Kei working on the cover of her Botany notebook.† I thought this was SO creative!
3.†††† We stopped on our bike ride for Kei to take some stop animation pictures.† She knew where there was a perfect patch of clover!
4.†††† Celebrating G’s 8th birthday.† Kid’s love playing on the trampoline.
The weather has gotten just a wee bit cooler this week.† It is still gorgeous and we have been spending so much time outside.† We have been riding our bikes around 3 miles each day.† These flowers are all ones we saw on our ride.
Wednesday we went to see the ballet, Cinderella.† It was the first real Ballet we had both seen.† Afterwards as we were taking pictures of the kids, a couple of dancers had to get into the picture!
I love the way our weeks flow.† I love how each day is filled with possibilities.† Where anything can happen.† I feel so incredibly blessed to be able to live my life this way.†
I decided to start something on Fridays.† I want to post a few of our ‘Streaming’ Netflix choices.† This is some of what we watched this week.
We are both fascinated with loggerheads.† We watched this amazing documentary about them and loved it.† I had just re-read a book called “The Beach House” that is interspersed with true facts about the loggerheads.† I would read the prelude to each chapter to Keilee.† We would love to be “Turtle Ladies”!!!
“Dr. Who” is something that I have wanted to watch for a while.† I have seen so many people mention how great it is.† We are really liking it!
“Billy the Exterminator” is something that Jessica recommended.† We always manage to be watching this one at dinner time it seems!† We have learned so much about pesky animals and insects.† Every time Kei sees a wasp now she says, “We need to call Billy!”
“Switched At Birth” is something that Kei just stumbled upon.† It is a really good show about teenagers with a really good storyline.† Also several characters are deaf and Kei has learned so much sign language!
We just love Netflix Streaming.
My Favorite Resource this week is the Live Cam of the Red Tail Hawks at Cornell University.†† We have been watching several of them. It is just so awesome to be able to watch things like this.† The Red Tail Hawks camera is so clear and also it has a chat bar and you can talk to other bird lovers all over the world.† We have been tuning in for weeks.
Red Tail Hawks at Cornell University.† These are supposed to hatch around April 13th!† I so hope we don’t miss it!
Happily linking with
Mary at “Collage Friday“
and
Susan at “Favorite Resource“
I hope everyone has a blessed Easter.
Homeschooling Rocks!
Karen
“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day – like writing a poem or saying a prayer. ” ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Check out the Great Blue Heron cam at Cornell University as well. Five eggs laid, fascinating to watch. You should see a link on the same page as the red tails.
What a beautiful, blessed life you and your girl lead! There are too many wonderful things in this post to try to comment on them all. I’ll just mention two: 1. The cover of her botany notebook is gorgeous! & 2. Dr. Who rocks! During the winter, I got thoroughly hooked to that show.
great week, karen! your girlie has some creativity. 😉 i think we’ve streamed the documentary of the loggerhead turtle, too. my nator was a bit stressed watching the crabs take some of the babies. poor little guys. do you guys have a pet turtle? 😉
Wow, what a great week! I just love Keilee’s Botany journal cover! Beautiful! As are the flower photos. It got kind of cold here, so we don’t have any plants outside yet. 🙁
I hope you and your daughter had a happy and blessed Easter!
I love the flower pics and Keilee’s Botany notebook cover! We recently watched that turtle movie, too 🙂 I bet the ballet was fun!
The nest cams are very nifty, I agree!
Thanks for linking up Karen. I hope you all have a wonderful Easter weekend!!
Loved your week, as always!Y’all always seem to be bursting with fun and creativity:) I really wished we lived closer to one another. I think my girls would always be at your house:)
Love the flowers! we watched Turtle: the Incredible Journey as well!
We almost went to see the Moscow Ballet perform Cinderella last night…but a friend came through with Bruce tickets and I could not say no to them! lol!!
Happy Easter!
We love Netflix, too. It is all we have had for about three years now. I am going to have to get Bananagrams…so many people love them. I love her Botany cover, too! Kei is SO talented! I don’t know what I would do without our trampoline! (Did you see our post about doing geometry on the trampoline?) 3 mile bike rides? Wow, you guys are in good shape! Those are some beautiful flowers. Katie likes to sometimes take flower-photo shoot walks. I know what you mean about the days being filled with possibilities… sometimes people ask me how I get so much done in a week. I get it done by not worrying so much about what I get done, but enter each day with the thought of all the possible things we could do and doing some of them! I love seeing how you have chosen your possibilities, too. {hugs}
Great idea to post your Netflix “finds”. Occasionally we stumble across something great, but I feel like we end up watching a lot of the same few shows I know the kids like!
We will be learning about loggerheads soon! Thx for the tip on this movie. I have two books here at home and G said he wanted to learn about them. 🙂
Looks like another great week, Karen. 🙂