Week 9: Learning About the Kennedy Space Center

Monday: I have decided to scale back on Story of the World a bit.  With the holiday season ramping up, I wanted to shift focus to doing a few fun unit studies instead.  We will pick SOTW back up in full swing after the holiday season. Today we jumped right into our lessons with renewed [...]

Week 9: Gypsies in the Palace

What a fun week!  Let’s see…we went on a really cool field trip, had a substitute teacher, and made a yummy treat. Most of this post will be of pictures.  I’ll describe what happened in the caption and/or along the way.  Ready?  Here we go… On Saturday, we decorated pumpkins.  I purchased those foam pumpkins [...]

Week 7: “That’s One Small Step for Man…”

I had tons of pictures from this week. Pictures of the boys working on their Apollo 11 crafts and lapbooks. Pictures of the boys making the ‘Snack of the Week’ (S’mores). Pictures of the boys interacting with their DVD lessons. But on Friday, in my attempt to free up some space on my SD card, [...]

The Naples Zoo

I ended up purchasing an annual membership to the Naples Zoo the other day.  I decided to take the boys there for a ‘preliminary run’ before the school year started.  Jess went with us as well (one of the rare days she isn’t working!).  Scott, unfortunately, couldn’t make the trip with us today.  I had [...]

The Imaginarium

Aunt Jo Jo and I took the boys the the Imaginarium last week.  None of us had been there before, and since the price is pretty reasonable, we decided to load everyone up and take a look at what they had. One of the things Cam had been hounding me about for months, was being [...]

Family Camp at Bass Pro

We decided to go to Bass Pro last night and participate in their Family Summer Camp workshops.  While they were a little “dry” for children, the boys still seemed interested in them.  Unfortunately, they only have the hands-on training during the weekends, so we were unable to implement the lessons being taught. We did the [...]

Our First Trip to the Library

I am embarassed to admit this, but here goes: I have never taken the boys to the library.  No real reason, other than the fact that we own at least 100 children’s books, and have a pretty established library of our own.  Nonetheless, I felt it was time to introduce them to the public library. [...]

You Could Say This Was Our First Field Trip…

My boys love Bass Pro.  To them, Bass Pro is like a wonderful theme park.  Even the glass elevators are considered “rides”. Bass Pro is a good 45 minute drive for us.  I tend to not go there often because they are so far away, and because I find it difficult to leave that store [...]