A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

 Today (Friday) was good. A Wild Day. We went to the lake. It was supposed to be a cool morning and hot afternoon, so I planned a hike and then playing at the beach. But it was hot in the morning too, so we walked about a mile and called it good. Lola loves her "egg hat."  How she wore it while we sweated our way through this walk, I'll never know! We wandered off the main trail to follow the disc golf course through the woods. And somehow, on the way back to the beach, we came up with the game of stomping on one another's "shadow brains."  Disturbing, but fun!   Hike #25 of 52:  Smithville Lake 53.96 miles + 1 = 54.96 miles We took only these pictures . . . none at all while we were on the beach.  We chose to leave the phones utterly alone and play together. Though when Beowulf was trying to turn one of our big blue tubs into a boat, I sure wished I had clean hands and a camera on! Oh!  How those kids worked at balancing and floating! There were more...

New to our homeschool this year, Colloquium meetings were designed for Nature Angel and Little Princess to combine some of their studies under my direction after the co-op we'd signed up for dissolved for reasons beyond our control. Our plans were grand:      1.  American History:  Our Star-Spangled Story --the text and all of the trappings that go with it                (Mister Man was going to join us for these lessons)      2.  Human Anatomy:  Apologia Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology      3.  Greek Mythology:  D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths and the Memoria Press study guide And we had a good start with extra literature, science experiments, activities, and everything! Jello cells Then Life happened--mostly in the form of Brother's incredibly intense psychiatric needs. Writing with f...