Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Blogging Break

I've been on a bit of a blogging break these past couple of weeks because we've had a lot going on.  Some things good and some things not so much.  Last Monday I went with a homeschooling friend to a Classical Conversations meeting because I am planning on enrolling by boys in the program for the next school year.  We checked out one particular location last Monday and tonight we are going to an info meeting for another location that is closest to our house.  Then, last Tuesday, we had a field trip to the Atlanta Center of Puppetry Arts to see their "Space" show.  Johnny is an extremely cautious child and isn't comfortable in new experiences so the minute we walked in and the theatre was dim he started getting nervous.  He layed down on the floor even before the show started and when it finally did, the lights went completely out (oh joy!) so he was very upset and basically layed there crying the whole time that he wanted to go home.  Poor Charlie was really enjoying the show but we had to leave a few minutes early because Johnny's crying was getting loud enough to be disruptive.  Next time, I believe that we will leave Johnny at home :-)  Our unit this last week and this week has been on isects and I checked out about a million books on different types of insects.  The boys have really enjoyed those.  We received our ants for our ant farm today but only 3 out of 25 were alive so I believe we will have to try again in the spring when travelling conditions are a little better for the ants.  We learned all about lady bugs yesterday and the boys each chose a rock to decorate as a ladybug.  They turned out really cute!  I have decided that you probably know by now all of the usual things we do since I've taken quite a few pictures of it all so I'm trying to only take pictures of new/more exciting things.  Here you go:


 Painting their ladybugs.

 Johnny can ready pretty much any 3 letter word you put in front of him.
 What a serious face!
Johnny's ladybug upclose.

Charlie's ladybug upclose.  Does anybody else think its strange that my 4 year old has defined pecs??  :-)

1 comment:

  1. love the pics!

    hey, we got so much out of classical conversations for just the few weeks that we were able to participate before we moved...i highly recommend it! make sure you are able to do the practicum this summer if there is one in your area. it is free, and they also have classes for the kids. it made all the difference for me---i entered as a skeptic and came out a believer in both classical education and cc's methods!

    love you. thanks for the updates...love that you're a blogger!

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