My friend Chris Royer lives and works in beautiful mountains of West Virginia, where I get to visit several times a year for the work that I do with Hero's Journey Foundation. I am never there in the winter, and recently he sent me two groupings of some beautiful photos... it was making me want to scoop up the kiddos and drive down to the mountains for some winter fun! Then we got dumped on with the big storm that swept over the eastern USA yesterday, so we have our own snow to play with and enjoy. Thank goodness. I like a bit of snow, if it's going to be cold!
L and his friend J had a good look around the State Museum together! this model of the earth had interesting text and the interior got hotter and hotter... the boys are feeling how hot the center of the earth is!
On a recent trip to the Indiana State Museum, L delved into the rocks and minerals of Indiana! We both enjoyed looking at the geodes, especially as we had been geode hunting last fall, and found some really good ones. None quite this large though! Woa!
One of our friends made home made meat pies for the Australia Day feast! Meat Pies are one of K's favorite All-Australian food items. She was so excited!
We celebrated Australia Day with the company of friends- lots of friends who came over for food- lots of food! We had an Aussie feast, each family made and bought something terrifically Australian to share and eat!
Our homeschooling co-op meets at our house every Thursday afternoon as I host Global Adventurers Club, which is a fancy name for something akin to "hands on Global Citizens kind of social studies"!
Each month we "travel" to a different country. January was Australia!
Here's some of the kids making Aboriginal dot art paintings.
There have been some big blank spaces here on the blog.... so I thought I would play catch up.... In January the kiddos have been continuing the Robots Class at the Central Library. It's been a fantastic opportunity to get into the Lego Mindstorm Robots system. K has a thing for robots, so this class has been an ongoing support to her learning more about this design system.
Having a supportive family has felt really important in our homeschooling journey. So when we are in Australia, Gran takes a deep interest in the latest learning adventures that K and L are getting up to. For L, it's his reading... it's so much fun! Gran has been working with him, and having a lot of fun with it!
Another back-track.... Before we left we celebrated Dia de los Muertos with our WellSpring friends, it was a lovely way to combine Halloween with the Latin American tradition of honoring the dead. We created an offrenda together, to honor our departed loved ones, and we made traditional sugar skulls. All lots of fun!
Backtracking... noticing that I haven't posted a whole lot of autumn to the blog really.... just random photos..... The kids enjoyed making Jack O'Lanterns for halloween before we left the country. This year we carved them and left them inside so that the squirrels wouldn't get them!
So this photo is the opposite season of the photo just below it.... I've been from standing in the leaves of autumn to standing in the petals of spring! Both yellow, both amazing....
