A few weeks ago we heard about a movie, “Little Josephine” that was going to be filmed in Decatur. It is a short film that the director plans to enter into film festivals in the United States.† The only role that Keilee was the right age for was the main character.† It said, “8-12 year old girl”.† Now I was pretty sure that Keilee was too old looking but she really wanted to try out.† The other female roles said, “older teens/young adult” so we knew that wouldn’t work for her.† Well she tried out and they did go with a younger girl for the main character.† The little girl who got chosen is a really good friend of ours.† Her Mom is one of my best friends.† And Keilee got picked to be the fairy who leads the little girl on her adventure!! Keilee is excited because she gets to work with Maggie and also because she gets to be filmed on a green screen!† They begin filming October 6th.

Last Saturday we were getting ready to go to Depot Days which is a festival we go to every year.† A friend called and said that they were holding “Little Women” tryouts in Decatur with a new theater group.† I wasn’t sure we would have time because my cousin was getting married that afternoon but Keilee really wanted to try out so we punted the “Depot Days” and headed to tryouts.† We didn’t know anyone who was there or the director but we were very excited that they are doing theater in our town again.† After auditions we ran home, changed clothes and went to the wedding.† It was beautiful and I am so glad were able to go.

Keilee heard on Tuesday that she got the role of Amy March, the youngest March sister!† She is beyond excited because she has always loved “Little Women”.† Practice starts next week and I hope it will be a wonderful experience for her.† And for me! 🙂

I think it will all work out because the filming for the movie is on Saturdays and practice is Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.† She does have her “Fantasy Playhouse” practice on Monday but the director said she would work with us.

We also went on a amazing field trip.† It is about 15 minutes from here and I never knew it existed!†† It is called “Water Works Center for Environmental Education”.† They converted the old Hartselle Water Treatment Plant into a natural water treatment plant using wetlands to clean the water. Water Works is also a functioning GREEN building. They have solar panels that produce all of their electricity needs with a surplus most months, their sewage is treated through a natural sewage wetland, and part of their roof is a living sustainable garden.† It was a great trip!

Keilee took all the above pics on my digital camera.

We saw geodes, crawfish, turtles [look at his nose!], fossilized coral, fossilized rock and salamanders.

We loved the green roof!† See the strawberries?

Our favorite part was us being able to muck around in the Wetlands area.† There were TONS of little green frogs, dragonflies, butterflies and so many kinds of plants.† We just had a blast.

Keilee had another great day at Co-op.† She got all her Spanish homework done and only missed 2 things out of 11 written pages!† I was blown away by how she did.† She had just as much homework this week and she already has it done!† They made blueberry muffins in cooking and did some programming in Robotics.

Some other things she did this week included:

• She did 4 lessons in Saxon and finished Module 3 in General Science.
• We read about some of the inventions that made life easier after the Civil War.
• She played with a few History Apps on the iPad that she really liked.
• She is doing a Unit Study on Alabama.
• She did a report on Brazil and did some notebooking pages.
• We did a cool art project that I am going to blog about in a few days.
• She is working through the Young Writer’s Workbook for NaNoWiMo.† You can get it free here.† It is my favorite resource this week.
• She did a Nature project where I gave her different colors and she went outside and found those colors in Nature.† Then she took pictures of them and made them into a collage.

The weather turned MUCH cooler on Wednesday and we have been enjoying the lower temps.† We have been spending a lot of time outside.† Kei has been turning cartwheels, doing backbends and doing little routines she makes up to music.† I LOVE this weather!

The only ‘down’ side to this week is my job is pushed another week and a half.† Now it is October 18th.† The hold up is because they can’t find the lead role.† They wanted Zac Efron but he had a prior commitment.† Keilee said she would do it but I told her I didn’t think that would work. ;)†† But we are good and I am not going to get all freaked out again.† My bills are paid and we have food.

What a week.† Every time I see it all written down it looks like so much!† It is amazing how much you can get done when you aren’t in school 8 hours a day.

Happy weekend all!
Homeschooling Rocks!
Karen

ìA change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.î† ~Marcel Proust

ìAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.î ~Henry Ford

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