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We have a little park just around the corner, and we love to walk there when it’s nice! When the time changes, we’ll have to go earlier, but for now we can go between dinner and bedtime.
We always have it completely to ourselves, so the kids can run around and play as much as they want!
I am so grateful that we can spend this time together!
As some of you know, we are homeschooling our kids. But for us, right now (with Vera being 4 and CC being 2.5), it doesn’t look like a curriculum or a bunch of seat work. There will be plenty of time for handwriting and textbooks in the future.
Right now, we’re instilling in our children a love for learning – any time and any place!
This is what homeschooling has looked like at our house this week!
-taking a field trip to the zoo where we got to see lots of animals we have been studying about
-going on a family walk where we found acorns and studied them
-learning about giraffes and orangutans
-painting with watercolors
-working on letter identification (G for giraffe and O for organutan)
-going to the library for story hour and checking out books
-reading library books (and other books) together
-setting/clearing the table
-helping with laundry
-baking muffins together (measuring, counting, and stirring)
-practicing counting
-putting stickers on paper
-going to the park and discovering many interesting things to look at
We’re not really a “workbook” family, so this kind of homeschooling just makes sense for us!
We had a great Father’s Day spending time with our family! We invited Tad’s family to meet us at the state park we recently visited.
Vera and Tad went out really far into the water (but fortunately, it’s quite shallow). Cordelia still wasn’t too interested in getting wet, but she did briefly put her toes in the water.
Aunt Angela and CC
My little curlyhead!
We had the best picnic dinner! Tad’s mom always makes fantastic food.
We had burgers on the grill as well.
I told them to “act natural.” Pretty normal.
We all had a great time catching up!
Hope you were able to have some family time over the weekend as well!
