July 5, 2012

Happy Independence Day (a day late)!  Unfortunately, Martin had to work on the Fourth...but we did go check out the fireworks over Liberty Bay and then we did sparklers with great friends!  It was fun watching Henry get into the poppers.  I had to keep dodging the poppers that Martin kept throwing at me! :0)

A couple days ago, the kids and I checked out a local farm.  

They were trying to "talk" to the chickens.

 We did a lot of cleaning this week.  Martin was right in saying that we need to work harder at getting the kids to help with chores more.  Hannah is learning how to dust, help with laundry and other chores like that.  Henry likes vacuuming....maybe his wife will thank me someday! :0)

We made jet packs for the kids out of plastic bottles and leftover rocket ship spray paint.  

Taking Henry's lead, we are now getting into learning about Space.  We covered the wall in the kids' room with black paper and covered it with glow-in-the-dark planets and stars.  Hannah is sporting her spy glasses in this picture.

One of many things I love about homeschooling...impromptu field trips!  We founds starfish, snails, clams, crabs and all kinds of creatures that we have no idea what they are.  I need to get a book to bring next time that will help us identify our findings.