We finished!!

Hip hip hooray!!  We finished school!!  Last friday was our official last day of school for the year!  To celebrate we took the kids to a really cool old fashioned style candy store in our town.  They love it there and don't get to go very often.  So it was a special treat for them.  They each got to pick out a few types of candy and then we browsed through the little toy section of the store.  This week we will head to the zoo!  We have not been able to go since last spring, so I know they are super excited about this trip!

Elijah

Noah

I love looking at these comparison pictures, it amazes me how much they have changed throughout the school year.  I think Elijah grew about 4 inches!!  The picture collages were done through Pic Monkey, love that site, in case you were wondering.

Here's to a great relaxing and refreshing summer!!

They've Hatched!!

A few weeks ago we noticed that a robin was building a nest right out side our front door!!  Literally right out side!!  At first we weren't so sure about it and thought about knocking it down, but since we had just begun our study of robins I thought it would be cool to watch the process.  So after a day or so I decided to take a picture of the the inside of the nest, since we can't see the top very well.  To my surprise there were 3 little blue eggs inside!!

We kept closely monitoring them over the last few weeks and yesterday they hatched!!  We were so excited to come home from church and see that there were little babies inside!!

Aren't they just so sweet!  This has been the perfect end to our study of robins.  Now we get to watch and observe how the mommy and daddy robin feed and care for the babies until they leave the nest!

Winding Down

Well we are on the last week of school!  I can not believe that its almost over!  I can not believe that we actually did it!  All of my children are still alive and I am still sane!!

Noah actually finished his preschool work two weeks ago.  He was so proud of himself and I am so amazed at how much he learned through out the year.  He went from not being able to hold a pencil or crayon to writing his name!  He went from not wanting to sit still for ANYTHING to being able to sit and work or play on his own for 30 minutes or more!  He is so excited to start Kindergarten in the fall. We received our curriculum about a month ago and he saw all the fun stuff in it, I think that motivated him to finish preschool.  I made him a preschool certificate, he was so proud!

Elijah will be finishing up this week.  We have already finished Science, History, Bible, and Math.  Really all he has left is Language/Phonics, and Spelling.  This has been a hard couple of weeks for him because Noah is already finished not to mention the weather here has been super nice for the most part. I actually was planning on going another week, just to finish up a few extra things, but after seeing how ready he is to be done, I decided against it.  What a great benefit to homeschooling!!

Next week as a reward for finished up the school year well, we are going to head to the zoo!  They are so excited!!