Planning

I love planning, which is probably why I loved being an Event Planner, in my former life, before kids. :) This time of year is always so exciting to me. I begin to plan what my kids will study next year and what classes they will take.

Yesterday, one of the homeschool suport groups in the area had a Used Curriculum and Book Sale. So, after reviewing my list one more time as to what we would be doing in the Fall, I shopped ... and shopped. I found a couple of items I needed for our curriculum next year, at a great price, and tons of readers for the kids. I also found the complete set of books written by Charlotte Mason on her philosphies. All of this for under $70, a really good bargain!

Easter

We had a glorious Easter celebration yesterday - church, followed by lunch with some church family, and an Easter Egg Hunt. The day was so beautiful, so fitting for a day where we celebrate the day our Savior rose again. It was a great ending to a fun filled Spring Break Week!

On Friday, we enjoyed reading Benjamin's Box and going through our Resurrection Eggs. That is such a great teaching tool and one I know we will use year after year.


Saturday we dyed Easter Eggs. Using only three colors we were able to come up with several different color combinations. The kids worked through what colors they needed to combine to come up with a color they wanted for their egg.

Spring Break in Asheville

We spent a few fun days in Asheville, North Carolina. We had a wonderful visit with family and enjoyed a great local BBQ joint with live Bluegrass Music and an early Easter Dinner. We even added some educational fieldtrips to the mix. Here are a few pictures from our fieldtrips ...

Trolley Tour of Asheville - we learned lots of history and visited such landmarks as The Grove Park Inn, RiverArts Warehouse District, and Biltmore Village.
My Mom with the girls visiting the WNC Farmer's Market. It was a slow day and early in the season so the vendors had time to visit with us.
Exploring the Creek at the WNC Arboretum. We hiked along the banks of the creek for about 3 miles. The kids enjoyed looking for rocks and finding snails in the creek.

Palm Sunday

A favorite tradition of our family ... Palm Sunday at our church with the processional of kids waving palm branches while singing Hosanna.

Open the gates ... here comes the King of Glory ...

Lift up your voice and sing!

Surprise!

Yesterday, we attended a surprise engagement party for my sister, Betsy. It was so fun to see her look of surprise when she walked into her apartment to see most of our family and her fiancee's family standing in her living room.


It was such a perfect day, with beautiful weather, fun with family, and great food!

Week In Review

This week brought lots of rain, again. We took advantage of the days we had sunshine and shortened our lessons to spend more time outside. My girls love looking and trying hard not to pick all the blooming trees, shrubs and plants in our yard. Spring has sprung!!

This week we have continued our Bird Study using The Outdoor Hour's suggestions. This week we studied the Cardinal. We always see Cardinals at our birdfeeder, males and females always arrive together.

Ava Mae has surprised me with her requests for doing schoolwork everyday this week. I found a great workbook to go through with her back in the Fall. I thought it would be a starting point for her and help me assess where we needed to focus. Little did I know I would open the workbook and Ava Mae would show me she already knew all of her letters and numbers. I guess she has been paying more attention than I thought while playing in the room while we are doing schoolwork.

Next week we are on Spring Break. Heading to Asheville, North Carolina where it appears we will have snow. It will not be a really warm Spring Break but, we have some great fieldtrips planned, mostly indoor. ;) The kids cannot wait to leave but, we have one important event to attend before heading out of town. I will post more on that tonight ... it is a surprise.

We arrive back in town on Thursday and our plan is to do some fun Easter studies - including Ressurection Eggs to be done along with the book Benjamin's Box, making Ressurection Cookies, and, of course, dying Easter Eggs.

Wordless Wednesday

A woodpecker who finds our birdfeeder a great source of food and visits daily now.