Ice Skating

We went ice skating yesterday with our small group, it was the first time any of the boys had gone and the first time Jeremiah had been since we were kids. Each of the boys did pretty well. Spencer wouldn't slow down to actually learn to skate, but would race for a short distance until he wiped out, pick himself up and race off again. When we first started, the littles would find an adult they knew to hang on until that adult got tired and then they'd get passed on to another adult(thanks small group!). That got old pretty quickly, so we took each of them to the middle or side where it wasn't so busy and made them go on their own, focusing on balance and going nice and slow. Samuel especially ended up loving it. He told me this morning, "When we were skating yesterday, I was as happy as a tiger who found food." :-)

Pics were all taken with my camera phone, most were blurry, so these 2 are the only decent ones, they happen to both be of Samuel.

Today EVERYONE did school.

and boy was that interesting. Between the bigs' curriculum and finding things for the littles to do, I kept busy! Oh, check out my amaryllis on the table. A christmas gift that we're really enjoying!

Open House at Home School Connection

Yesterday the bigs had an open house at their Home School Connection program. The program started with a performance by the HSC choir.

Art class projects were on display, as were science/lego projects.

And they showed us what they'd learned in keyboarding.

Oh, and we got to sample food from the cooking classes, which, as you can probably guess, Spencer was a part of.

Asher's joining us for school today.

Asher wanted to join us for school today, so I was excited to once again use this super duper cool website where you can generate custom handwriting worksheets. Asher is working on his name in these pics and has moved now moved on to his upper case alphabet because he says he wants to do school "all day". He surprised me by actually sitting and listening mostly quietly when we did our history reading about Greece. We'll see how long that lasts. :-)

Boys' New Climber!