Tuesday

Another studious day. However, by far the highlight was outside science. We are learning about soil layers and types.

Oberserving

Logging

Examining

Then we added water!

It's a good day!

Snack time discussions

Watching the ran

We also escaped for a grocery pick up and more garden plants. No one left the car. Automatic rear door on the new Explorer has proved essential.

Monday Monday

Wow, what a great weekend. Sunday was a gorgeous day and we took every advantage of getting as much down around the house and farm as possible.

So this Monday, I was more prepared and back on my A game. We are still following creation and the theme of this week is land. 

Both kiddos teachers also increased the amount of material available within the voluntary plan. Also helpful.

Here David is doing a remote graphing lessons. With Smarties!

Another huge hit, was incorporating binders with their daily and weekly lessons. Hopefully this sticks because it is a huge organization help for me and gives them some independent direction if I need to do a call.

In other independent news, this is the lunch they made on their own. Win all the way around!

Play time. I'm on the patio working.

David helped with dinner while Kathryn painted her nails on her own 😳

Dress up for dance! Only a few more weeks left. Recital is unknown.

It's the weekend!

More time to work! That's spring on the farm. Planting day at the nursery for delayed due to rain, but the guys in green still worked Saturday.

Satut means catching up and cleaning for the kids and I. We did find time for some fun and outside activities.

Thrilled it work out!

Helper while David napped (in his firetruck tent).

Sunday church

Playing by the creek. Lots and lots of outdoor time without the phone. Just memories, no pictures. More seeds were planted, both grass and garden. It was a full day. And that was the last weekend of April 😨

Recap of the School Week

Space week was a big hit. Our theme is creation, so this week we moved on to water.

Learning about the water cycle

Kathryn's last rocket board.

Monday night each kid made an appetizer/side for dinner! David made still cucumber sandwiches and Kathryn made a caprese salad.

Dance

Discussing and drawing forms of precipitation.

Stir fry. #nailedit

Expanded water cycle

Water cycle experiment. I made it rain! (In side the jar!)

Digital reading hangout

Drawing about where we find water on the farm

Friday afternoon movies. Talk about comfortable!

Friday afternoon surprise! The guys in green showed up to mulch. David had to get out his equipment too.

Um wow, that week went fast!

We have a bit of catching up to do. On Sunday we got to Zoom meet up with the Hughes Clan on being the sides of the pond. 

Other highlights include rocket launching!

These are some really happy kids! We launched, retrieved and launched again. I have a feeling we'll do this about once a week.

Most of the day John got spring projects done outside, while I did spring cleaning inside.

i did find time for a short archery break. David was super impressed. I only lost one arrow. 

Just to recap that was a week ago... sorry.

Saturday April 18th

Well it was official yesterday, school is closed for the rest of the year. Both Kathryn and David have voluntary educational activities, but it's not how we thought the year would end. Our hearts go out to the seniors and students struggling in this time. Thankfully both Kathryn and David are fine and shouldn't experience any set backs for the next grade.

Even though it is Saturday, they requested morning worksheets. I worked this morning to catch up and get in my hours for the week.

Kathryn drew this picture of our family and David colored it!

They got a surprise visit from Shelby with Easter presents. It was great to catch up as we all missed each other.

A surprise for everyone. I caught them a 🐰!

The five other bunny siblings had run off (minus the one dead one). We let this one go in the brush along the fence line. John told me I'd be crazy to keep a bunny in quarantine!

new shirts from Shelby! Thank you!

Projects we the dad!

Model of the solar system.

Playing in the shop.

Dad building a spray tractor

A lesson on sodering.

One BIG highlight is mail! 😍

Thank you to Luke, Grandma Diane & Grandpa Gary, Great Grandpa Turner, and Colton for the messages (today and this week) ! We all enjoyed reading them and will write back soon!

To celebrate space week we had a mini grad ceremony with an astronauts pledge. David was clear he doesn't want to be an astronaut but will work hard and fix things here on Earth. Kathryn is pretty interested. She's just not sure about the long trip to Mars.

Shirts to celebrate!