Moving a Big Rock

This video is absolutely incredible... seriously! Give it a view.

First day of school for us!!!!!!!!!!

Today we plan on starting our first day of school. I can't tell you how excited I am. I figure come family when school traditionally goes in we will be doing lots of stuff with different homeschooling groups so if we get a head start now I will feel a whole lot better. Besides she is more than eager to start. She can't wait.

Box Day!!!!!!!!

Box day was officially July 9th....
(due to a death in my family we didn't get it open and looked at until yesterday)

The box has arrived!

Shaylin showing how excited she is about the box being here.
She can hardly wait to get started.

I love having my week laid out of me. It makes it so much easier to
plan my life.

The books are all on the shelf we bought at Ikea on Monday.

For those who don't remember our curriculum is Sonlight.

Happy 4th of July!

In honour of the Fourth of July I thought I would share some of my
favourite american blogs and links with very useful resources.

Freebie of the Day - check this one daily

Ambleside Online - free online curriculum

Homeschool Helper

Lapbook Resources

Giggles, Grins and Grades - new blog I found and visit

School name and motto

I am so excited for you... just today I pressed the order button on my curriculum.... :) So it should be here next week... and we have come up with a name also it is:

HOPE Learning Academy

HOPE is an acronym for: Home is the Opportunity for Pursuing Excellence

Motto:

Living and Learning in Love, and Faith

I am planning on making ID cards for both Shaylin and I and hope to do t shirts and sweats also... which should be easy... I just have to come up with a logo, mascot and some school colours now.

We are on summer break right now...

just so you know... I haven't forgotten this blog but school is done until September maybe late August I am undecided as to when I will start up again.. we will be doing little projects here and there throughout the summer and I plan to post them as we do them.

Right now we are concentrating on our garden which is growing like crazy so you might want to skip over to my main blog It's Just my Life to check out our garden and other things happening at our house.

Learning about Kites

What a perfect time to be learning about kites!
The kite festival is in town and we had a blast there today.

Picking out the colour for her kite.

Helping add the tape to keep it together.

more putting the kite together.

Kite ie almost complete just adding the tail.

Tail is on now time for some string.

Up and flying!!! It really does fly!

Check out my main blog for more pictures of the kite festival today.