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Friday, June 4, 2010

Testing the Waters…

We began to join a few homeschool groups for various activities after Christmas.  We really wanted to see for ourselves what a homeschool family would be like.  Were they unsocialized, sheltered, or otherwise “weird”?  Nope!  They were just like us…moms who were trying to educate their children and kids who were more interested in playing!  Here are some photos from some of those activities:  (run cursor over photos for description)

From Jan at Crystal Springs Preserve…learning to build shelter, make water in the ground and identify different snakes.

Making a FL shelterMaking water     Oooh, snake skin!

Homeschool Kickball                                                  Trip to Busch Gardens with new HS friend

HS Kickball                       Busch Gardens

HS Day at Renaissance Festival:  Maypole dancing, medieval clothing & weaponry classes

Maypole Dance Weaponry Clothing lesson

Not a HS activity, but a good learning experience nonetheless…Take Your Child To Work Day.  Garren went with Nana to MacDill AFB and got to see and do some amazing things!

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Another fantastic opportunity, not an organized HS activity, but a great learning lesson…

seeing the (maybe) last launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in May.

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Rock Climbing with HS group in May

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Looking forward to lots of new adventures both at home and in our world! 

1 comments:

Hikingmama said...

Congrats! You will NEVER regret what you are doing for the boys and your family. We're rejoining homeschooling in the fall when we pull Aylan out. Can't wait!