Florida-School Days!

I have to be honest, at about this time last year, when we began seriously considering homeschooling for the year, I had visions of the winter months with inches and inches of snow on the ground and the kids rushing to get their school work complete so they could go out and sled and make forts and snowmen in the never ending piles of snow.

Funny thing is here we are and we have had one of the most snow-less winters I can ever remember! We've had weeks of bitter cold, but never enough so to do much in.  But let me just say that that didn't make us any less ready to break away for a warmer climate.

I negotiated well, when I proposed that if we homeschool we spend a month of  Winter in Florida! But, don't you worry, we're doing plenty of school work. It's not ALL fun and games.  (Well, yea, maybe it is, but we're learning in the process!)

Our mornings are spent doing Math.

Writing in our journals or maybe a post card or letter to a friend back home...

Several evenings have been spent snuggled up together reading our Science text on God's fifth day of creation- all those ocean animals!

We've done lots of science experiments! Like this one where they're seeing how the ocean currents travel...

We've created a "Sea Life Box" to put all the sea creatures that we've been studying on to display.  Here they are creating the animals out of clay.

Paige even made a scuba diver...

After the clay creatures were baked. Jake laid seaweed, shells and rocks in the bottom of our box to create the sea floor.  It looks really cool, but using real shells, etc. makes it smell very fishy. Which is not fun when your sitting on the couch next to it trying to read!

Friday, March 9, 2012 Paigey finished her Kindergarten Math book and will be moving into First Grade math! We made this into a really big deal and celebrated her and the gift that God has given her to be so good with numbers.

And if you have to do reading for school, you may as well do it outside in the sunshine, right!?  

Now THIS is how you do school!!!!