Calendar for 2008

Updated School Calendar 2008
(starting earlier so we can finish everything we need to get done. :)

August 4 First Day of School
August 10-22 No School (Vacation to Colorado)
August 25 School Resumes
October 9-10 No school (Mom and Dad's Anniversary)
October 20 End of First Semester
December 22 End of Second 9 weeks.
December 29 Winter Break Begins
February 2 School Resumes if all goes well with baby #5
March 30th End of 3rd Semester
June 1 End of 4th semester. Summer Break begins!

Random Learning through our break.

Thursday July 10
Dad rented The Winged Migration Pretty interesting movie about some imprinted birds that were video'd through the migration process. Kids learned alot about different countries, birds and weather patterns. Dad also caught a baby frog that we observed for awhile. Didnt get a chance to nature notebook it though. Perhaps we'll catch another. Roughly 1 and 1/2 hours


Friday July 11

Top: Natalie's Picture
Bottom: Logan's Picture

Dad watched the making of the movie with the kids and had the children draw pictures of how they would imprint their birds. :) Natalie said she would dress in a duck suit and the ducks would call her "Mama" and Logan said he'd build a duck shaped plane. 1.5 hours


Tuesday July 15
Took the kids to the Ripley's Museum in Branson, MO. The kids learned alot of strange trivia. We spent about 2 hours there..

Random hours.. 5 hours.

*School is going on around us all the time.. The key is to take ahold of those teachable moments.

Wednesday

This afternoon we worked on our 4th of July lapbooks again. We added several little items. Read the first lines of the Declaration of Independence, read from our book, and outlined the 13 colonies on our Map as well as the states of Virginia and Massachusetts. In our lapbooks we recorded the elements that make fireworks their different colors. Natalie finished her copywork. We counted 13 stripes and 50 Stars on the American Flag. We sang "God Bless America" and worked on our memory verse. We also colored Missouri blue on a little map and the rest of the states Red. We wrote the word Missouri.

Time for today: 2 hours

We did finish our lapbooks and our story this week. I got a little carried away and forgot to record our time. I would say that we spent another 2 hours or more on this lapbook before it was finished. And our firework show on the 4th really rounded out our study.
Time 2.5 hours.