Ice Skating With 96 Degree Temperature

Our co-op meets 3 Thursdays out of each month.  This year, we decided to do a field trip/fun day on the Thursdays that we have class.  This summer, our local library had a reading program.  One of the rewards to a free pass for ice skating.

Our first Thursday off, we went ice skating - for free. Yay!  So, we dug out our heavy jackets, hats, scarves & gloves.  It felt funny, because the temperature outside was 96 degrees.  They wore them at the beginning, but then got to hot skating.  Meanwhile, the moms were freezing as we watched them skate.

Cheyenne, Will, Collin & Blake in a deep discussion on the ice.

Our "mascot".  Sweet Cianna all bundled up.  

Another conference.

Cayman & Audrey did great on the ice.

 Addy & Faith

:Will:

Cool Co-op

Today's co-op was exciting!  The kids learned about x-rays & bones, as well as kaleidoscopes.

The kids put together a "skeleton person" using x-rays.

 Making kaleidoscopes. 

This was a great way to learn the physics of how a kaleidoscopes works.

Collin on left.

Mrs. Julie had the kids play a diversio'n (Spanish word for fun) game in Spanish.  

Clothes - Spanish Word Relay.

They picked a card with an article of clothing on it ~ in Spanish word.  

Then they had to find that item in the bag & race back to put it on the "mannequin model".

Co-Op Presentations

I love our co-op.  We have some really great kids as well as some really great moms.  Each week on child presents a Physicist.  Will & Collin present back - to - back weeks.

Will did his on Galileo Galilei.

We learned so much about Galileo. Will did a wonderful job presenting.    Click here for a fun short animated videos on Galileo.  Will's favorite Galileo invention was his thermometer.

Collin presented the next week on Benjamin Franklin.  This was his first time ever to present.  He was a little nervous, but did a great job.

Collin was a host of the game show "Your Life, Benjamin Franklin".  He was highlighting Benjamin's science discoveries.  Thankfully, we were only presenting on his science accomplishments & not the rest of his life's achievements.    When were half way finished with the research, (being the good home school mom that I am) I said that I wish he would stop inventing things. (I was tired of researching)  Collin cleverly said, "Mom, he did stop, he's dead."

What do Michelangelo & Alumni Marching Band Have in Common?

    Nothing really, we just enjoyed them both in the same week. Hee Hee!

 Michelangelo's Masterpiece

During our home school co-op, we learned about Michelangelo. The kids got the chance to paint the way he painted the Sistine Chapel.  It wasn't very long into the project when we started hearing: "my back hurts, my arm hurts, I just dropped paint on my face."  They got to experience first hand, just a small fraction of what Michelangelo had to endure for his Beautiful Masterpiece.

Collin (top right) ~ Will & our sweet friend (bottom Left) painting their masterpieces.

LHS Alumni Marching Band

 

 Tony & Jason posing for the camera as they get ready to march on the field.

 

 Tony is on center line.  This is the 2nd year that the alumni band joined forces to play for the game.  

They only practiced for 30 minutes before the game & sounded amazing.  They blew the LHS Band away. 

 

What? You can't tell which trumpet player is my hubby?  

I'm hurt. :)

Tony is the second trumpet from the right.

Sweet Claire is the beautiful clarinet player in front of all the trumpets.

I hope she still can hear after 2 1/2 hours of trumpets playing in her ear.

 We were sitting behind, 2 big boys, Tony & Jason during the game.  

Needless to say, we didn't see much of the game.

 

  

Mr. Steve playing his trombone on Faith's head.  

Thank you Mr. Steve for all the hard work you did

to reunite this crew for an awesome performance.

So I guess to answer the Title question: (What do Michelangelo & Alumni Marching Band Have in Common?)  Enjoyment, Beauty & Old.  Hee Hee!

Field Trip & Co-op

We had a class about the Wetlands at one of our local parks. 

Collin & Faith about to scoop into a pond filled with 
duck weed to see what type of wild life they can find.

:More Scooping:

:Budding Scientists- looking at some of the wild life they caught:

:This was Collin's favorite thing:

Our Home school co-op's art class.

 

Collin using Michael Angelo's style of painting.

Will studying different paintings by Angelo.

Will learning about molecule positions.

Excalibur Home school co-op

This year we are participating in a home school co-op, where were are being educated in Science, art & Spanish.

We have learned a lot in our Spanish class. My kids break out speaking Spanish throughout the day.

Will & Collin working on their Botticelli Art in the Round painting.
We are studying the Great Artists

We are doing Christian Kids Explore Science- Physics. This has been so much fun. Mrs. Melinda is (a friend of mine from way back in my youth group days.) our Physics teacher. She is so talented in teaching the children. She came up with a wonderful way to illustrate a nucleus.

She had girls & moms stand together ~ representing the protons & neutrons in the middle. The boys were the electrons that were running around the nucleus. I wish I had this illustration when I was in school. Maybe then, I would have remembered which was which.

Will with other 3rd & 4th graders working on their worksheets.

Collin with other 1st & 2nd graders building atoms.


The whole co-op building a marshmallow & toothpick city.

Faith is in the preschool class ~ she had to stop by to show me a baby lizard that she caught.