GA Aquarium & Johnny Rockets

We went to the Georgia Aquarium our last day in Atlanta.  We love ocean animals. 

Faith, Tony & Will (beside some strangers on the right) at the shark & sting ray petting pool.

 

 :Bonnethead shark:

Faith, Will & Collin petting sea urchins. 

:Puff fish:

:Collin & Faith in another petting pool:

 

:albino alligator:

 

:The kids at the huge aquarium.:

:Collin & the spotted sting ray.:

We were fascinated by this Beluga Whale.  They had 5, but only 2 were in this tank when we stopped by.  There were so many beautiful animals, but only a fraction of God's gorgeous ocean animal creation. As we were looking at some strange looking, beautiful, ugly, etc. animals, I was in awe by His creativity.  Sometimes I wondered why He made one look the way He did.  I am so excited to continue to get a glimpse at His handy work.

After our great time at the aquarium, we were walking back to our van & spotted Johnny Rockets.  It is a 50's style restaurant, so we decided to go in.

They gave us lots of nickels to play the juke box.  We all enjoyed the 50's music playing.

Me & the kids.

 

Aim High

Our homeschool co-op meets the 1st three Thursdays of every month.  On the last Thursday, we have a field trip.  This time it was set up for an air base a quite few miles down the road.  It was all set up & then in the last quarter, they called and said that they can only do it for 7th grade and up. 

The saying: "it's all in who you know" is so true.  I am so thankful for 2 kind men that go to our church.  They are retired Air National Guard.  They were so sweet to help us get a field trip together.  Thank you so much Mr. Danny & Mr. Bill.

(This is about 1/3 of our co-op) 

Back Row: Mr. Danny & Mr. Bill

2nd Row: Kenna, Summer, Mabry, Audrey, Addison, Laural, Will, Matthew & Michael

Front Row: Faith, Jacob, Carter & Collin

We learned so much about fighter planes.

The kids checking out under the plane.

Picture courtesy of Faith.  Super Cool!

We got to watch the F14 fighter jets take off.  I was a little bummed, because we couldn't take pictures of them due to security, but I still got some great pictures around the base.

Coming to You Live....

Our homeschool co-op had a chance to visit a local Christian radio station today.  We had so much fun.

The largest Ipod.  This machine holds all the songs that the radio station has.  

Learning how an air wave sound board works.

:The board:

:Collin recording time: ~ "Go Clemson":

:Faith's recording time, "This is Faith & I love going fishing":

:Will's recording time: " I'm Will & go Gamecocks.":

"Today's weather is...." Faith

"You're live on the air....." Will

" .....You heard it first here, ladies & gentlemen." Collin

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About 1/3 of our homeschool co-op group.

I got this message from the lady that organized this trip. 

"We were out running errands earlier and we were listening to the (Christian radio station). Between songs Michelle mentioned that our home school group did a tour earlier and she talked about how well behaved the kids were :) We thought it was neat that she talked about us on air!!"

I am so proud of all the kids.  They did a great job.

Making T-Shirts ~ Field Trip

Our homeschool support group had another field trip in March.  Amy's, a friend of mine, parents own a printing company.  They invited us to watch how shirts were printed.  Amy's sister designed a shirt just for us.

Mrs. Taylor showing us the velum that the design is printed on first.

Then they burn it on a screen like the one she is holding.

Faith waiting to start her shirt.

Faith pulling the brush over the ink.

Faith catching her shirt after it has been sent through the dryer.

Will brushing his design onto the shirt.

Will's shirt, right of the press.

Collin making his shirt.

 

Collin putting his shirt into the dryer.

Our group with their amazing t-shirts.  

Thank you Taylor family!

Field Trip to a Bee Farm

We are members of a great homeschool support group.  A least once a month there is a field trip available.  One of March's field trip was to a bee farm. (and a petting farm) The farm is family owed & very nice. 

We enjoyed a picnic before we began.  We were able to ride with our friends Jacob & Mrs. Karen.

A sign was posted stating: "Whistle loud to make the turkeys gobble."  

The kids had a great time making the turkeys gobble.  

One of my favorite animals were the Wallabies. 

There were quite a few joeys that stole my heart. 

We were able to feed the lemurs.  They had such soft hands.

We thought that they would have claws by the looks of their

hands, but they did not. This was the kids favorite animal.

A Prairie Dog sitting on their hotel.

We had a fun lesson about honey bees.  

Did you know:

• That a queen bee only mates once in her life time.

• She lays about 2,000 eggs a day. 
• After a drone (male bee) mates, he dies.
• There are only about 10% drones in a hive.  
• The drones do not do any work in or for the hive.
• At the end of the season (around Sept.) the worker bees will break off the drones wings & kick them out of the hive. The drone will then die.

I guess their philosophy is, you don't work, you don't eat/live.

This Bee Farm has about 130 hives.  There is only one hive in the classroom.  

They marked the queen bee with white paint.  The kids had fun trying to find her.

The kids were hoping to dress in a bee keeper's suit & look at the regular hives.  

I'm sure for safety reasons, they do not let the kids near the other hives.

We were able to pour our own "bear" jar of honey.

The kids also made a bee wax mold.  Collin is making a Nascar mold.

Their old bee hive boxes turned into Beeville.

Will feeding a deer.

Check out this video.  This monkey was sooo funny.  

You put the monkey food in the bucket & the monkey 

pulls it to himself.  We loved it!

Jacob, Faith, Collin & Will with their honey bears.

We had to take & post this picture in honor of Daddy.  

Not because we think he's is a toad, but because he plays an amazing trumpet. 

Hee! Hee!