School Days Fun!

During our study of France, one of the activities was to make truffles.  An activity that we were happy to do.

They were easy to make, a little messy putting them into balls, but
"very" Yummy!

Cleaning up afterwards was even yummy!

Fall is officially here and some mornings are just beautiful, so we take advantage of those days to do school outside.

Tanek always has a sense of humor.  It is never boring teaching him.  Sometimes I am the one being taught.  Recently, I told him I was Not going to teach him math, that his mom would have to do that.  He said I know you don't know how to do math and we get confused.  I explained to him that I was never very good at math and it is totally different than when I was learning it.  He said to me, "well Nana, have you learned anything from me?"  I'm thinking, Who is the teacher here?  In spite of my short comings, he is doing very well.  It is amazing to me what their brains can comprehend.  It is very rewarding being able to be a part of that.
Thankfully, Stephanie does all the lesson planning and researching what he will study.  I just help out a couple days a week.  
One more cute thing he did, last week we were studying Leonardo da Vinci and I asked him if he remembered the name of the painting he was famous for.  He thought for a minute and then said "The Great Dinner"?  I told him it was actually "The Last Supper", but it was a great dinner.    

Update on School

We have been studying about the solar system, planets, galaxies etc.  We made a collage of galaxies.  It was a lot of fun.

Mixing colors to make our collage.

Cutting out the shapes and gluing them on.

Lots of fun.

Wild Adventures

Saturday Stephanie and I took Tanek to Wild Adventures in Valdosta.  It was their home school day and we were ready to have a little fun and ride some rides.

At the entrance they had a snake and a baby gator that the kids could hold.  Tanek choose the gator.  Smart boy.

Mommy and Tanek

Getting ready to ride through the jungle

They have a lot of neat animals.

These beautiful blue skies didn't last very long.

This one is my favorite

We went to the petting zoo

We managed to ride several rides, have lunch, pet the animals and then the rains came.  We were on a roller coaster ride when the rain came.  This ride went around twice.  Just as we came in it started to rain and instead of stopping the ride the guy let it go around again.  We were soaked when we came off that ride.  When the rain lightened up a little we made it back to the car to warm up a little.  Then we decided since we were already wet we might as well go ride on the waterfall ride.  We made it on that just in time because when it was over they shut down all the rides.  We were completely soaked now.  We decided to go to the car and we changed clothes in the car, which was quite hilarious.  Parked in the middle of the parking lot changing clothes while Tanek help up a towel to block the view.  After that we went to the outlet mall to kill time to see if it would clear up.  The outlet mall is not really a mall anymore. Only a few stores.  We spent some time in a book store and the rain just kept coming. SO....we started home around 2:30.  The rain was really coming down, but when we got into Florida the bottom fell out.  We could hardly see to drive and it was really storming.   So we took a detour at White Springs and stopped in at Gary & Shirley's (Stephanie's in-laws).  They were surprised.   After a nice visit we started back home.  When we got into Starke we were met with clear skies and sunshine.  It was a fun day anyway.  Anytime we can get away and do something it is usually fun.  Doesn't always go as planned but that is life.  Wild Adventures is no Disney, but it was fun.  Wish we could have had more time there.

School Days!

We have finished our first month of first grade and it is going very well.  Tanek is very interested in what we are studying and learning so much.

 He takes it very seriously

And gets quite excited when he has accomplished
something new.

 He is sitting at the same desk his mommy sat at when she was in first grade.

School can be lots of fun.  Tomorrow we are going to have some
fun at Wild Adventures.  We are looking forward to it.

P E Time

This is what we do for PE in the summer time.  3-4 laps a day.  The water is cold because of all the rain, so it is get in and get out.

First Day of First Grade!

Tanek  goes to school all year.  It really works well for everyone.
Not only does he not forget over the summer what he learned all year, he gets vacations and days off when others are going to school.

We had him evaluated and not only was he doing well for someone going into first grade he was well ahead of the game.
We have a lot of interesting things we are planning for first grade and he is pretty excited.

We are studying Argentina and we were doing some map work.

We sure would love to take a field trip to Argentina to see all the places and animals we are studying about. We are looking forward to another good year in school.  I tried to download the video of him talking about his first day, but it was too long and wouldn't down load on here.  Oh well.  We have a whole year to get more.

Tanek & Valerie....together again

Tanek & Valerie haven't seen each other in 3 years, but they sure hit it off good like they had never been apart.

Tanek showing Valerie how to play wii.

Watching a movie

The two "moms"

Time for swimming

Tanek loves to be thrown in the air.

Valerie learned to swim

Cannon Ball

Ricky helping Tanek learn to dive

Time Out!

Daddy Time!