Nothing but Silliness!

For our Drawing into the Heart of Reading each time we start a new genera we have a "kick off day" to introduce that genera of reading. This time the book were Humor books! so we did nothing but silliness! They dressed funny and did funny faces! 

We played some funny card, games, and did spoons.

We also played a game where they acted out silly noises that animals make and they had to guess what they were being.

We made silly sandwich men :)

We had a lot of fun with this, The books that they read for this section were. Frindle, tooter peperday, and Mr McBroom one Acre Farm . Along with enjoying these fun books we learned about cause and effect, and other things. I am really enjoying this program. There are many books that we read just to enjoy them, but I also think it is "fun" to break stories down and think about the different elements as well.

Field Day in the Fall

My Friend Amy did a wonderful Job putting together a field day for the home school group in our area. There were a few different events, and the kids had a lot of fun. And even though it was October we were all melting- gotta love the south! 

Here is the first event, Ryan running with a ping pong pall on a spoon. 

Wheel barrow races.

Potato sack races

This one was a fave, they had to run with a cup over there head, full of water and it had holes in it, so it dripped on you- nice to cool off a little. Then dump the rest into the bin on the other end.

The last event was a tug of war. I love my boys faces in this pic!

I was running back and forth from setting up the stations, and trying to take pictures, so I did not get many but at least I got a few! The kids had a wonderful time! I am soooo Grateful they have so many kids in this town that home school too!

Going on a Nature Hikes!

We really enjoy Nature, well except for cockroaches :) This summer we were visited by lots of pretty butterflies on our Zinnia flowers, and I love butterflies! 

We got this camera for the boys to start taking pictures more, they really love it. Here is Ryan taking pictures.

One of the boys took this picture we have TONS of these spiders around here they are very popular, and they are HUGE this is a great shot, look at the deatils of that web!

One of the boys took this picture of a butterfly

Ryan look these of this butterfly

We found this pretty bush it is called a

Callicarpa - Beautyberry bush

we also found this yellow daisy type flowers we found these as we were hiking as a family at swayback trails, it is one of our faves around here and it is close.

Will and the boys on our hike.

We all thought these trees with the twisty vines up the trees were cool

Here was a tunnel of trees twisting together, it was a beautiful day for a hike! we did about 3 miles, and even little Dallin held his own, what a trooper!

We also Took A field Trip to swayback trails in October, we had a lot of fun kicking and us mom visiting - love my home school support here!