It continues to amaze me how we keep making it with no income.† Well not much income.† I got my check from “Space Warriors”.† This is after taxes for 10 hours work!† A red or black Porsche 911 you think?
We stayed up and watched Curiosity land on Mars.† We had to cancel cable about a month ago but we still have our Roku and it has the NASA Channel. This was SO exciting.† We were cheering and jumping up and down when it finally landed.
We started school Monday also.† Keilee set her alarm and woke up very early.† She got dressed in a cute little outfit she had picked out and put a BOW in her hair! A BOW!† She never wears bows.† I was cracking up.† She even put a bow on Nomad.† God love her.
We are doing Notebooking for the first time.† I mean we have done it here and there but not with any regularly.† She wants to make her own NB pages.† Above is her first attempt. It is for Apologia General Science which we are LOVING!
A couple of pictures of the experiments we did.† One is showing the density of different liquids and the other is about Atomic Motion.† We are also using Apologia General Science Lapbook Journal which is on sale at Currclick for $6!† She is really liking that too.
And there has been reading and falling asleep while reading. 🙂
Tuesday night we made a fire and made S’mores!† It made me really wish for cooler weather.
We also got a late call for Space Warriors.† They called and ask us if we could be there within an hour.† Well we live 40 minutes away and we both looked like ragamuffins but we made it.† Top right shot is Thomas Horn, Sean McNamara and some strange Robot boy!
Keilee also auditioned for a theater group in Huntsville.† They are called “Fantasy Playhouse Traveling Players” and they do just that…they travel around to different festivals and events and schools and perform.† She really wanted to try out but I knew it would be a whole different league of kids.† They were really, really good but Keilee did really well and she got the call the next day that she made it!† She was jumping up and down.† What I love about it is they do huge amounts of Shakespearean plays.† When we saw them perform last spring they did Shakespeare.
Thursday we picked up Britney and took her to Pt. Mallard with us.† The girls had a blast swimming, riding the waves and riding the slides over and over.
My favorite resource this week is a GREAT one.† In fact I tried to talk Keilee into us using it this year instead of General Science.† And it is completely free!!† It is Middle School Chemistry.† It is an almost 700 page ebook and lessons plans and multimedia galore!† Another of my favorite resources is Hands of a Child!† Check them out for their Annual Back to School Sale.† They have amazing Lapbooks and Notebooks.† This is the VERY first homeschooling product we ever bought when Keilee was 7.† We have always loved their products.† With this sale you can save over 50%
So I deem our first week ‘back to school’ a complete success!† In fact Keilee said she could not wait for next week.
Happy weekend all!
Homeschooling Rocks,
Karen
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” ~William Shakespeare
Happily linking with Mary at “Collage Friday”
and Susan at “Favorite Resources”
I love your photos and how they tell your story! Thank you for the resource links – I’m definitely going to check them out. We too have only done notebooking here and there, but this year I pray my girls want to do it more!
Congrats on joining the traveling drama group. Looks like a great opportunity. Hope you have a great week of school.
Blessings
Diane
I love Kei’s passion for life and learning! You two girls are amazing to me:)
Looks like a fantastic first week of school. Thanks for sharing those resources.
Great news about the traveling theater group!
What a great week! 🙂 I am so happy that your first week went so well! I am going to check out your links, especially the Chemistry one. It sounds like something that would be good for my sons.
Congratulations to Kei on getting the part in the play! Wow! 🙂 She is such a talented young lady. I can’t wait to hear all about the adventures with this new production.
Know that you continue to be in my prayers, and that you are truly an inspiration! I hope you have a great weekend! 🙂
Wow, great week – my son enjoyed General Science from Apologia last year. I liked how nicely it covered so many different topics – lots of good, solid information, but not an overload. Congrats to Keilee! Sounds like it will be a lot of fun. {Your smores pictures are making me wish for cooler weather too 🙂 }
Karen, I am so happy that things are working out and that you are managing to get by 🙂 You’re still in my thoughts and prayers everyday.
I’m glad that you had such a super week…yay! The notebooking looks awesome, and I can’t wait to check out the resources you linked.
Thanks for linking up Karen. Hope you guys enjoy your weekend!
Oh, wow, congratulations to Keilee on the new theater group! She’s quite a talented young lady!
I bet she’ll really grow to love notebooking and the creativity that comes with it. My oldest isn’t really creative, but I gave him a composition notebook last year for his Earth Science and he read and notebooked it through the year and ended up with a really cool learning project!
Thanks for the middle school Chem link! I saved it for later on. It looks interesting, although my oldest did like General Science.
I am glad you all are doing so well on so little. We should all learn that lesson. What a wonderful opportunity for your dd.
Blessings, Dawn
Oh yes big money! 😉 You guys start school so early down there. We don’t start until Sept. 3rd. Looks like a great week dear friend. 🙂
I am so happy for Kei! How far do they travel? I love that she wants to make her own notebook pages. We are going to try to do mostly that this year, too. I am glad that your Space Warriors experience was so great, despite the lack in pay. My best friend had Jury Duty the other day and she got a check for $10 for the whole day. She didn’t even know what to think of that!
Congratulations to Kei! That’s so exciting! It sounds like that will give her a ton of performance opportunities.
I think a red one. 😉
Kei will love notebooking, I just know it! There are SO MANY free and wonderful resources out there now. We are doing The Storybook of Science – which has free notebooking pages and then we got some library books to go with it… all in all everything was free (except the paper and printer ink). I am glad you linked to some free and low priced things in your post.
I just love your spirit, Karen. Hugs!
Love the As You Like It quote! I actually know that because I saw the play last year! A huge hug to Kei for trying out and making the theater group. Please post video if you are allowed to . I LOVED watching her in Wicked. I know I have said this before… but I believe so deeply in her talent and her passion that I just know she will come to New York one day and I will get to watch her in person and bring her a huge bouquet of flowers. And then you and I will go out for dinner and wine with Theresa! I just know it…….