october.  2011

Sesika chose chocolate as the research subject, and who can blame her for wanting to know more about this delicious confection.  As she’s presenting, everyone is intently listening, except of course, Madison, who has that look in her eye of, “I know what we’re getting after this!”

sept.  2011

Casey Black, a woman in our ward, was gracious enough to come over and teach our group of children about writing, editing(always many times, which is great for the kids to hear, as we ask them to do additional drafts in school), publishing, and blogging.

Casey has been studying publishing, and even got to go to New York and study there.  We are very grateful, thank you!

fall 2011

Smithgall Woods-wow, what a beautiful place.  We had a lot of fun learning all sorts of things about nature and outdoor habitats.

After Smithgall Woods, we had heard the cabbage patch hospital was on our way home.  Boy, I remember being younger and loving those cabbage patch babies.  Now, I think they are some of the ugliest toys out there.  And not only ugly, but pricey!  Almost three hundred dollars for some of those cloth babies.  But we had a fun time with friends, and stopped by a chocolate shop on the way home, which of course, made the whole day better.

When we first moved to Atlanta in March of 2010, we were the only family homeschooling in our church.  In September, five other families started homeschooling.   This past fall, we started something new to kind-of liven things up a bit.  Friday’s became our “Presentation” day.  Each person would take a turn picking a subject for a Friday, and everyone would research the same subject, and then practice speaking and presenting in front of other people.  They could also use pictures and video to add to their presentations.   So it made our Friday’s so much more fun, not to mention we would all bring food to share and visit after the kids were done presenting.

Some topics covered were:

Volcano’s
Piranhas
Koala’s
Sucker’s
Chocolate
Wombat’s
Penguin’s
Pearl Harbor
Balloon’s
Peter Pan-James M. Barrie
Licorice
Jellyfish
Shark’s
Giraffe’s
Monkey’s

Sometimes one of us would put in some extra effort making and trying what we researched…such as trying all different flavors of licorice(a mom drove an hour round trip to go get them!).  Or homemade sucker’s(that I’m sure took some time).  We of course tried different kinds of chocolate.  And just to be clear if any animal lover’s are out there, we did not try any animals that we researched.  So don’t worry, no animal testing was done!