Home School Adventures!

Hopefully by the end of October Benny will have finished Kindergarten and moved onto First Grade.  Back in the Spring, we joined a Meetup group called Fox Valley Home School Co-op.  We have been very busy attending play dates and field trips. 

O is for Octopus.  We made these from hot dogs.

I is for insect.  Benny had a lot of fun observing our ant farm.

 He would wake up every morning and run downstairs to see if the ants had made any more tunnels overnight.

 For the letter G we studied goats.  Benny had the opportunity to try goat cheese.  He actually liked it.

 Here he is at one of the science co-ops.  He really likes doing experiments.

 For the letter B, we studied butterflies.  We started out with 5 caterpillars and after a few weeks of waiting, we were blessed with 5 butterflies.  

 Here you can see the chrysalis.

 Can you spot the butterfly?

 How about here?

 Another one of our field trips with the co-op group.  We went strawberry picking.  Timmy ate more than he picked.

 Benny did a great job of picking strawberries.

 We ended up with three pints of strawberries.  We had some delicious strawberry shortcake for dessert.

For the letter R we explored rocks.  We went to a park next to the Fox River and the boys had a blast picking up rocks.  These were the ones that didn't get thrown into the river.  We had fun sorting and classifying them.