Today in Homeschool...

I feel like the majority of my daily energy is rarely documented. I spend so much time thinking about, planning and executing homeschooling activities, but because it's not out of the ordinary, it rarely is blogged about. So here are a few snippets from our day today:

Claire colored each page of her book a different color, so I wrote the name of each color on the page. Then she told me the name of different shapes that I drew on different pages and then she colored them in. 

The older two decided to make different versions of the "3 Little Pigs." Last week we read multiple versions of several classic stories. Their favorite was, "The 3 Little Javelinas." Ruth's story is about 3 meerkats and the big bad hawk. Will's is about 3 saber-tooth tigers who are attacked by the Terror Bird!

Library time

Also, I figured it's time I wrote about this so there is a record of it somewhere. Valentine's Day this year I had yet another miscarriage, I was 9 weeks along. The kids didn't know so it wasn't devastating to them like it was two summers ago, which I'm thankful for. It's taken until now for me to be okay with it. I really would like another child and don't want them separated by too many years, but alas, the timing was not right. For now I'm, once again, trying to get control of my body and make healthier choices.

This Week

Special snacks are so super!

We went back to Miranda's Rescue, but this time we took our best friends with us! It was a party van down to Fortuna and back! This is a picture of Claire trying to catch her shadow.

Ryan, Carin and Tammy

 Allie and the kids

Back at home we made up some salt dough and made our own beads and then painted them

Beach day with friends

More art work by Ruth from her on-site class

"Just Some Abstract Art, Mom!"

 Ruth has been loving her famous artist's class and has been encouraging lots of art activities at home.

From Titans to Whiskeytown

We left Thursday around 11 to go on a short trip. First we went to Jedediah Smith Park to look for the Grove of the Titans.

 Brad found Chesty Puller!

Then I found El Viejo! Then we bushwhacked behind this huge tree to find the others.

Brad had to check his information to see which tree was which. It was really exciting to go on this special "treasure hunt" through the redwoods.

 That night we stayed in Medford. Friday morning we got up, did some shopping and headed down I-5 toward Shasta.

Then we made a detour to go see some waterfalls.

Lower Falls in McCloud

On the mile hike to the middle falls.

Middle Falls

Then we drove to Burney Falls

Then we drove the hour into Redding. We stopped at the Sundial Bridge first.

 Then we got some sushi, DQ and checked into our room at Red Lion. Here is the self proclaimed "Tiny Princess." We watched The Hobbit, and went to sleep.

Saturday we woke up and headed out to Whiskeytown Dam.

We stopped about an hour later to take a break and enjoyed one of the many creeks running through the mountains.

 

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Miranda's Rescue

We started volunteering this week at Miranda's Rescue in Fortuna. It's an amazing animal shelter that rescues animals from all over the U.S. It's like a farm with huge areas for the dogs to run around and a really cool cat area. They also have birds and horses. They let us walk little dogs so even Claire got a chance to hold the leash. The dogs were so happy to run with the kids, and Ruth showed her animal lover side. She's very good with animals, especially the dogs.

The big white and grey cat ended up settling on Claire's lap. At first she was happy, "it's on me!" Then she was a little nervous, "It's ON me." Then she was done, "IT'S ON ME!" She didn't know how to get it off of her, the cat was so happy snuggling in the sun.