Field Trip Day.....

Our day started off with a Library tour. Morgan was given a tour of our local library. They showed her where all the different types of books are, how to use the computers, and even a behind the scenes of sorting books that have been returned. She had a real nice time.
Here are some pictures....


We then went to the pond to feed the ducks! We brought rice cakes just like in The Story About Ping! We are enjoying our FIAR journey. Morgan seems to really be interested and excited about her work. Today I woke up to a "surprise" on the kitchen table..... She went ahead and did her handwriting to surprise me! How sweet!
Here are the photos from our pond trip.....

Plumpton Park Zoo Field Trip

Here are some photos from our HAHSA trip to Plumpton Park Zoo. We had a great time checking out all the animals and then had lunch by the playground......

Rocks State Park Letterboxing Hike

Ok, I wanted to add the photos from our family letterboxing hike at Rocks State Park.... This is a letterbox made by another HAHSA (our HS group) family. The directions are then posted on our groups site and families can go check it out when they have the time.......
Here are the pics from our hike....

Letterboxing Hike May 2007

I wanted to add some things that we have done this summer. We belong to a Homeschooling group that has been wonderful! They have all kinds of things going on and Morgan and I have had a great time so far.......

Here are some photos from our Letterboxing club. There is a hike each month where a new letterrbox is introduced, there is a scavenger hunt for the kids and then lunch and hanging out.....Each family then finds the letterbox on their own!!!! It has been very cool! I will post some photos of us(our family) finding a box... but for now here are the pics of the Hike/scavenger hunt. The kids needed to find many things including: Jack in the pulpit and Poison Ivy.

Busy, Busy, Busy

We have been so busy lately, between activities, housework and good old playing outside. We are currently spring cleaning and redecorating/reorganizing, so we have been constantly on the run.

However, today we went to the local Planetarium. It was only the three of us! We were able to choose what we wanted to do and she choose to learn about the constellations and planets instead of "day and night sky" which is what they normally do for Kindergartners'. Gigi really enjoyed being able to see the stars so bright and understand how to use your imagination to create the constellation "pictures". She was also able to really see how the big dipper is just a part of the Big Bear. He showed her how to use the big dipper to find other constellations by following up the edge of the big dipper to the north star and over to the left to find Cepheus (the king) and if you look right of the north star to find a "W" that forms the Cassiopeia (the queen). He also sent her home with star charts and solar system flash cards! The school where the planetarium is located is also my husbands old middle school and he went to see his teacher from 20 years ago! He brought my husband and Gigi into the class to meet his students! lol Talk about culture shock!

From there we came home and Gigi wanted to work on handwriting, did a lesson in Math and from then got out our science curriculum and then wanted to work on 3 different lessons/experiments. She created her own mold fossils, exploded a film canister and blew up a balloon with vinegar and baking soda. My husband also showed her how to turn ice cubes (solid) into water (liquid) into a steam (gas) and then turn the water back into a solid just by changing the temperature.

Here are some pictures:

First the Fossil Experiment

What a smile! This is Gigi working on the mold fossils.

Pushing in the samples to create the mold.

Her carefully creating "perfect" fossils. :-)

Next comes the States of Matter experiments using antacid tablet and a film canister.

This is to see to see what happens when you put the anti acid tablet in water.

Then we do the same thing inside a film canister and close the top real fast.

These are some picture of use melting my ice cubes i work so hard to keep up with! LOL (we don't have an ice maker-poor us)

She was feeling how the steam (gas) can turn back into a liquid so quickly when it is cooled.

And lastly our Balloon experiment

Gigi Dropping the baking soda that is in the balloon into the tube filled with baking soda.

See ya soon!