There was much going on this past week. The most exciting was the premiere of “Little Josephine”. More on that later.
There was cooking and creating and clay and so much more. I love the way our weeks flow at times. Not always perfect but always learning and laughing and loving.
7 Cool Homeschoolers The theme this week was “Your Favorite Character from a book, movie or TV show. Keilee picked Cinderella, one of her favorite Disney Princesses. She wrote this amazing little rap song. I LOVED how this turned out!
Various parts of our week:
1. Cinderella – Yo!
2. Cupcakes with homemade peanut butter icing. Yummy!!
3. I finally bought “Color Yourself Smart – Geography” that I have seen on so many blogs.
4. Keilee played for hours with clay.
5. A little volcano she had gotten months ago. Add vinegar and voila!
Clay Creations:
She played around a bit with Marshmallow Fondant she had seen on Jessica’s site. Very cool.
Saturday she went to 2 workshops at a local college. One was for Directing and Film Making and the other on Acting. She loved them both. I was ‘more than welcome’ to stay but decided to let her go without me. It is her thing not mine. After the final class I waited and waiting while all these people came out…most of them college kids and adults. Finally I peeked in and she was in deep conversation with both of the teachers! With everyone else already gone! I love that she will just ask questions when she is out of her ‘normal comfort zone’. This picture was on their Facebook page. I did not make it.
The big thing of the week was the premiere of “Little Josephine“. This was such an unbelievable experience for Keilee and for me. It involved learning the script, fittings for the costume, days of filming and then days of filming her part on the green screen, recording the song, promotion and more.
We met tons of our friends before the performance for dinner. Keilee was there surrounded by her best friends and she said, “Mom they are as excited for me as I am!” It was just a lovely wonderful night. It was so strange for her to be in the audience watching herself. She is usually on stage. We were so thankful for all the friends and family who were there to support her.
Friends… These pictures are blurry and the lighting is horrible but I love the joy in them.
Space Warriors is out but is being shown in select theaters only. It is being shown at the Space and Rocket Center. We haven’t had a chance to go this week but will go next weekend.
What a week! As exciting as it was I am glad every week doesn’t look like this. I would go crazy!
Homeschooling Rocks!
Karen
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” ~Kurt Vonnegut
“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” ~Walt Disney Company
Better late than never: Happily linking with Mary at “Collage Friday”
I love that video! Keilee’s confidence and talent really SHINES through! I love her clay creations too. Your blog is a real inspiration for how things might be for us in a few years. The premiere must’ve been such an awesome experience!
What a great week – full of wonderful examples of the learnign that can happen when kids are able to follow their passions. Love Keilee’s Cinderella rap too – really original.
Karen, another beautiful week (as usual). I know you well enough now that I can tell you I look at your weeks sometimes with a lot of envy — I wish I could let go enough to allow my kids to really explore their passions. I’m working on it, my friend. 🙂
We LOVED Keilee’s rap, too! i love how all the girls personalize what they do and do different things with the topic! Keilee is so creative!
I have been meaning to check out that Geography book, too! Thanks for the reminder.
Those workshops sound awesome–Piper would love something like that. I am going to see if i can find anything like that around here.
I love that last quote you shared…it just seems to sum up our days so beautifully:)
Yours too!
What an amazing, creative week, y’all.
And what a great opportunity for her to take that class. Congratulations on the movie…it looks fantastic.
Tell Keilee we are proud of her!
What a beautiful week, Karen 🙂 Such fun and excitement! We really loved Keilee’s 7 Cool Homeschoolers video, by the way. Jenna is a faithful watcher of all of the videos, but she rarely comments. When she does, it is with my account.
Kei, You are so special! Congratulations on your being a star. You are always a star to us.
Karen, What a fantastic week! SO much creativity, fun and learning. I feel so privileged to know you both.
-Phyllis
That was a very exciting week! We’re so proud of Keilee, not just for a successful movie, but for the hard work she puts in to all of her projects! I’m happy for her that the premiere of Little Josephine was such a good experience. I’m sure she will have many more premieres to come.
The clay figures are adorable too. We’ve yet to figure out how to make clay look like anything identifiable.
I hope this week is fun, and maybe a little less busy.