Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Happy Monday! Scenes from a quarantine!
Stained glass window art…
Masked allergy shots…
Playing My Little Pony…
Going for a car ride!
Hot and sweaty after playing outside all day…
Perhaps not my best attempt at a quarantine sideburn trim! Oops!
Cheering on the 6th grade MBE graduates during the parade!
Staying busy and making the most of it!
Another day, another hike! A week or so ago we took a drive out to the Turkey Creek Nature Preserve in Pinson for a hike.
It was a pretty and fairly uphill hike but everyone did pretty good. There might have been a little more whining than usual but it’s also getting hotter here so I get it.
The payoff of that uphill climb were these awesome waterfalls! So cool!
The cutest hikers!
After hanging out by the cool water for a bit and having a snack, we made our way back. There were a lot of tears, complaining, and generally bad attitudes. Not our finest moment.
But, when they’re tired and don’t want to keep walking, they’re learning that the best way out is through. Ain’t that the truth! Getting good homeschool life lessons every day!!
Love my adventurous crew.
First day of school and last day of school! Samantha is finished with preschool!
Spencer is finished with 1st grade…
and Maxwell is finished with 3rd grade!
Proud of these cute, smart, good kids!!
Bring on summer!
Well, we did it! We finished the school year and I’m going to say we finished it strong!! The last day they were in school was Friday, March 13th. We then had a few weeks off while the world figured out what was going on and then we officially started online school on Monday, April 6. We’ve done 6.5 weeks of school at home. There have been tears, there’s been lots of learning on their end and my end, but we have made it! They would start their work by around 8:00 every morning and were usually finished by 9:30 or 10:00. It definitely got easier as it went along and we got used to all of the different programs and adjusted to the new structure. We did school at the table…
at the counter…
in the dining room…
and even on the couch like this! ha!
Samantha didn’t get any assignments from school so I printed some worksheets and used workbooks for her to do a letter a day. We worked all the way from A to Z!
Like I said, we’ve all learned a lot. I had to be very hands on with it all and right there beside them while they were doing their work. Maxwell was pretty self sufficient most of the time but Spencer definitely needed help navigating everything. I’m so so grateful I am no longer working and was able to sit there every morning helping them do what was most important!
Maxwell did have two really big projects during quarantine that I am so proud of. The first was a research paper for his enrichment class. He had to research and write a paper on the history of Birmingham, complete with a bibliography! We tackled it together and he ended up with a fantastic, well written paper that his teacher was very proud of. This was a big project and one he had never done before and I am so proud of how he took it on and got it done!
The second big project was the 3rd grade biography assignment. In typical times, the parents get to go up to school and see the kids give a speech as their chosen famous person. Nothing about these times is typical so the speeches were done via video but Maxwell nailed his! He did it on Bill Gates and I’d say he looked pretty sharp in his Bill Gates glasses with his Microsoft computer…
He did a fantastic job recording his speech which was about 4 minutes long and got great praise from his teacher.
All three of the kids have worked so hard on their school work and have handled this strange situation with such grace and good attitudes. Proud just doesn’t even seem like a big enough word to describe how I feel about them. Fingers crossed we are back in regular school in the fall but, if we’re not, I know we can handle that too!
