Friday homeschool lessons from the Lake

This afternoon we moved our homeschool to the lake that is 5 minutes down the road. Only some of my students came with me, as some (1) were busy with lessons that required a computer and washing machine. ;-) Well, not together - quite different studies, one was for Italian and one was for Home Ec., you figure which is which.

Upon arriving, we realized most kids were still at "school" (i.e.- inside a building) -and we had the lake to ourselves. My littlest, King Bonkie (4), noticed right away that things were not like they had been all summer and with great feeling he yelled out to the rest of his classmates (i.e. siblings), " Hey, the Gardener isn't here!" (translation, no lifeguard, we will need to work on that '-) (UKBob, thought you'd like that!)

We brought a bucket of odds and ends to play with, now most people would say, 'toys' but really they are odds and ends. We have left over empty mustard bottles that the kids love to fill up, small empty koolaid containers that hold so many cool beachy things...today we used our faithful ole' mustard bottle to write our vowels in the sand. We filled "her" up with water and then wrote (A, E, I, O, U) (we left out Y...as my 4,5 and 6 year old don't need that info quite yet for reading, to be added later). Then King Meemer (5) and I wrote his name in cursive...well, his actual name that we had practiced in his book this morning. My kids thought it was so cool and my 8 year old (Princess Sunshine), even went as far as to say that I was a, 'Genius.'

Yup, we also fed the duck and seagull...after we retrieved the wrapped crackers out of the gull's clutches (as we discussed how eating plastic isn't really healthy, and might even kill our little brazen friend). We swam and laughed too. Oh how I love homeschooling and I love my life, thank you God!