I love the Friday posts.† I am just in awe of those of you who posts several times a week. I just can’t do it.† Well I guess I could but it takes a lot of time.† Does everyone do Friday Collage like I do?† First of all I dump my phone pictures into Dropbox and go through them.† I take MAINLY iPhone pictures.† I then get the pictures off of my camera if there is any.† Then I edit the pictures and do the collages in Picasa.
What I love about these ‘Friday Wrap Up/Collage’ posts is in weeks that I think, “Good grief we didn’t do anything productive” I realize we did.
Monday at Co-op they made Cherry Pie Cupcakes in honor of President’s Day.† They colored the icing to look like pie crust.
Then in cooking they made a 4 course meal in 1 hour.† Then set up everything after Co-op for the families to all eat.† It was so good.† Caesar salad with homemade croutons, Breadsticks with dipping oil, Green Beans with mushrooms and onions and Stuffed Shells. For dessert it was homemade brownies with ice cream and fudge sauce.
We also got to go to the Shanghai Circus this week with a homeschool group.† It was AMAZING!† Gymnastics is another of Keilee’s loves.† Even though she doesn’t take Gymnastics she watches YouTube videos all the time.† She has taught herself to do so many things.† She leaned over to me at one point and said, “Davan could do all of these things!”† Just wanted to share Nicholina. :)† She took all these pictures from the balcony. Way up in the balcony.†† 
These were some of Keilee’s favorites.
This girl and guy were really good too.† The blurry picture is so you can see she was on pointe, ON HIS SHOULDERS!
When we got home she kept talking about how much she would love to do something like that, so we looked up Shanghai Circus.† They don’t live with their families, they travel all the time and practice hours a day.† We talked about the fact that if you love something so much and want to do that always, it takes so much time and practice.† We tried to figure up how many hours she has spent on acting….thousands between practices, at home practice and performing.
She spent a lot of time on an Animal Study she is doing on her own.† I tried to get her to come watch something with me one night but she said she would rather work on it. 🙂
She is now at her first day at the Animal Clinic.† I am going to wait to post this because she said she would take pictures for my blog.† [I have so raised her right huh?]
I just picked her up and it was so funny to hear her rattle on about everything she did.† She got to walk dogs, fold towels, play with dogs and cats, help hold down a dog for clipping, put together tons of syringes [without the needle Mom!], learn about the blood machine, put dogs in their kennels† and watch a SPAY!† Not a bad first day. Here are a few pictures she was able to take.
Things she has done this week include:
- Working on a project within Webkinz.† She is doing a comparison on her vegetable garden and determining which crop is the most profitable to raise.† She is making charts and reports. She is keibell if any of your kids play.† She and Mary’s daughter have been sending each other all kinds of goodies. 🙂
- Doing a few lessons on Khan Academy
- Reading Book 1 of “The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe”
- She spends a lot of time on this site.† Brain Genie You must all check it out.† It is free and you can play against other people if you want, completely anonymous and also do a ‘lesson’ sort of thing.† It is my favorite resource this week.
- Her Animal project
- We finally caught up on “Once Upon a Time“† LOVE this show!† We had watched a couple of them, then stopped.† The complete 1st season is on Netflix streaming and all of this season is on HuluPlus.
- Watched the final episode of Downton Abbey.† Still speechless.
- She wanted me to print out some Grammar worksheets which I did.
- We are doing the SAT question of the day.† It is a free app.† She is rocking all the questions except the Math.
- Part of what I like Keilee to do every week may be kinda strange to some of you.† I encourage her to spend time on Social Media.† I think that this is going to be more and more important.† I want her to Instagram and Vine and search for things on YouTube and find things that are ‘trending’.† She isn’t much into Facebook but she enjoys the other things.
- She is working on this lapbook.† It is US History from 1909 until 2009. It is so funny because I always loved the idea of lapbooks but she didn’t. All of a sudden she loves them. Which is good since I have bought or gotten free probably 75 over the years.
- She continues to work on her blog Teens Can Change The World
WATCH THIS VIDEO! NOW!† I saw a link to this on Helena’s husbands Facebook.† We watched it, twice.† I kinda think Keilee has a little crush on Logan.† Well as ‘crushing’ as Keilee gets. Her words, “He is cute and smart”.† 🙂 I love the things he does for his ‘hackschooling’ and am planning on spending some time seeing if I could implement some of these ideas.† LOVE IT!!
So there is our week.† We have a busy weekend and Keilee’s play is in a couple of weeks.† All good fun.
HomeSchooling Rocks,
Karen
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.î ~Socrates
ìJust as eating against oneís will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.î† ~Leonardo Da Vinci
ìSelf-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.î† ~Isaac Asimov
Happily Linking with
Mary at “Collage Fridays”
Savannah at “It’s a Wrap”
Your week made me smile. Thanks for linking up at HammockTracks and I am featuring you this week.
I have given you a blog award…
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Have a nice day!
I don’t know what to say… as always, you’ve had a very full week!!! I love that your daughter gets to volunteer with the animals. My daughter has volunteered with her aunt, a vet, but everywhere else says she’s ‘too young.’
And, thanks for the link to the video! I watched it & really enjoyed it!
I’m trying to watch the video you shared, and it seems great, but my internet connection is choppy today and it’s slow going. Thanks for sharing it though 🙂
Love the cupcake class and the cooking class! So many, many good things in your week! The internship sounds like it’s a super fit for Keilee…I’ve tried to set up something like that at a local pet shop for Jenna, and while the owner of the shop told me she was interested, she never followed through with setting it up! grrr!
I sent a link to Keilee’s blog to both Jenna and Lauren so they can read it.
Hope you both are enjoying your busy weekend 😀
Just wanted to say hi. I am a fellow single mom homeschooler.I have twin 10 year old girls in the 4th grade Lindsey and Sarah. This is our 4th year of homeschool.(scince 1st grade) They went to public school in kindergarden but … it was not a good year for any of us there and I did not want my daughters to spend the next 6 years there. I work from home as a medical billing specialist. I worked for a hospital before we began our homeschooling adventure. I hope someday Lindsey and Sarah get to
explore their future careers like Kailee.
I wish we were neighbors!
What an awesome week! We love that Kei is interning at the vet’s clinic:) What a wonderful opportunity…I can see Molly doing it one day.
She’s still on webkinz, so she’s going to find Kei. I think Abby’s account expired:(
Thanks for all the great links!
Looks like an awesome week. I clicked over to Brain Genie to see what that’s about. I’m jealous of the play your daughter is doing…
I love the quotes at the end of your post.
Yet another great week! I have the same Hello Kitty sleep pants. Ahem, yes I am 41 and never too old for Hello Kitty!
What a fantastic week. thanks for posting the Ted talk and the Brain genie link. I’ll be checking them out with Miss 12. Wish the Shanghai Circus was visiting our part of the world.
She watched a SPAY! Wow! Wasn’t it bloody and icky? I don’t think I could do that. But what an amazing experience. Is she volunteering there regularly now?
Piper took gymnastics in kindergarten and then again in second grade and lately she is talking about going back. I just don’t know if we can fit it in our schedule and I feel so bad about that. There are not enough hours in the day to do everything we want to do!
What a great week. You all share your lives so wonderfully with the world. I look forwaed to sharing that video with my children.
Blessings, dawn
So many lovely things! So much wonderful STUFF! Where to start?!?
I love your and Kei’s life. It just feels soÖ full. And kind. And passionate. And interesting. And real. I know without a doubt that if we lived close by, our kids would get on amazingly, and you and I would probably never stop talking. 🙂 And all these photos would have my kids hanging with your beautiful girl, living fully, kindly, passionately, interestingly and truly, together. But seeing as the world is very big, and we are far apart, I can simply be glad to have your words, your photographs, our connection through that Social Media thing (!), and have your friendship.
I love all these amazing things Kei is doing. What is the animal project Kei is working on? Would my girl love it too, do you think??
That hackschooling video made me almost weep, because it’s so absolutely “spot-on,” as we Australians say :). And I love that you found it through my husband on Facebookó it gave me a happy jump to see you commenting there! AhÖMore connection, more joy, lucky, lucky us and our happy kids.
Have a wonderful week, and I can’t see what you get up to in your next post!
I have a 17-yo also. And her middle name is Kailey. A lot about your blog made me think of my own daughter…we watch the same shows too. We don’t have cable, so we have to wait until they’re on Netflix. Have you seen Switched at Birth? We like the first season of that. My daughter now wants to be a sign language interpreter.
I’ll have to share your daughter’s blog with my daughter. My daughter just started her own blog recently. http://heismyrefugemyfortress.blogspot.com/
You and your daughter may be interested in http://www.LetsHomeschoolHighSchool.com There’s a good forum on there for high schoolers, too.
I’ll be bookmarking your blog! 🙂
Janet
I’m glad the girls have connected via social media. I agree with you about letting them spend time with it each week. I still fight the battle, however, with Anna becoming a tad too obsessed with it — she loves to read, but if I let her have her iTouch she will do that instead of pick up a book. When I take it away, she sometimes will read an entire book in a day. Go figure. Any advice for me on that one?? (And I probably need to heed that advice for myself, too!)
The circus looks fun! What a great week, Karen!
Wow! What a fabulous post! I’d like to start doing a weekly collage. It would motivate me to take more pictures and keep better notes on what happens from week to week.
Oh my goodness! I love everything about this post! What an incredible co-op that makes meals (and treats) like that! Wish we had something like that here! I am so happy that Keilee got to start the internship. Love the photos of the pets. Too cute. What an opportunity for her! Wow! The circus looked like much fun. And, that young man’s video was amazing. He, not only was so well-spoken, but I love what he is doing with his education! I so want that for my kids. We need to brainstorm together and come up with some good ideas! 🙂 Hope you have a great weekend, friend! Much love to you!
It is a great video…shouldn’t we all want to be happy first? That looks like an awesome meal they cooked up and the cupcakes are adorable. The Shanghai Circus is amazing. I have only seen them on TV. I think the Animal Clinic is a good fit for Kei and I can see that it has affected her desire to learn about animals even more. I love seeing your weeks…they are filled with such joy!
What a great week you guys had. Tell Keilee that I worked in an animal hospital for 17 years from the age of 17 until about 10 years ago. I pretty much loved every minute of it. Me and Grace also watched the same TED video earlier this week. Such a great kid. Hope you guys have a great weekend.
Blessings
Diane
I loved that TED talk. Thanks for posting it!
I also love that seeing the Shanghai Circus made Keilee think of Davan. Davan will love it, too. 🙂
I’m so excited for her that she’s doing the internship at the Animal Clinic! Sounds like she had a great first day.