First Week of May

For some reason everyone waits till May to plan field trips.  Next year I'm going to be more proactive about this fact and plan for our year to end in April but for this year I have just suspended most school work for May and we will pick back up in June to finish the year.

Our first field trip this week was a double field trip to to the North Carolina Natural Science Museum.  The younger kids had a very entertaining class with Miss Linda on Rocks.  It was clear, Titus had clearly absorbed a lot from Jared this year about rocks.  We really appreciated how she worked hard to avoid beliefs about origins and stick to science.  The older kids weren't quite as lucky on that point but their geology class turned to an apologetic class for the teacher.  I was quite impressed with tales of one young ladies respectful questioning to get him to think about what he believed.

After the field trip we had fun exploring the museum and had a picnic lunch on the State Capital park, where the children also played and read a book together (too cute). 

Thursday was the last day of SEEK and Family Night.  Titus had two wonderful classes this year, one a music/art class and the other a "little inventors" class (Here's a video of one of his creations),  Jared enjoyed an Apologetic General Science course and an Art 1 class,  

Amber enjoyed her last year of pre-school and Lance enjoyed as semester at home with Chris taking his Lukeion class online and then joining us at the park after.

Friday, was one of Jared's favorite events of the year "Teen Pact".  He gets to spend the day all dressed up at the capital going through a mock legislative session.  This year the bill he presented was on stopping clear cutting trees for new construction.  Parents accompany their students throughout the day, we had lunch with some of the student leaders and finished our day together with a cookie treat before rushing to Titus' baseball game because we had his glove in our car (oops).

Saturday turned out to be a cold rainy day for Lance's second tournament weekend (He'll have five total).   Normally, Chis would take the kids but as the weather was nasty I took everyone else to help me sell our wares at a Used Curricula Sale.  We ended up buying as much as we sold but at least we came home with new stuff and what we had of the old stuff I took immediately to consign so it didn't come back to the house.  Thankfully at the end of the sale the baseball tournament was over, so Chris came to help pack-up and take the kids home for a break while I took our remaining wares to the Homeschool Gathering Place store.  However, baseball was not over for the day as Lance had a game with his training team "Moondogs" later that afternoon.

The weather warmed up and the sun came out for the second half of Lance's tournament games on Sunday.