We started school early this year. Mandie was very excited and pushy about starting early. This year she is doing language, math, vocabulary (SAT list), home economics and her favorite history. This truly doesn't cover all that she does study. For instance she is learning many things this year. She is beginning with English riding lessons. We have signed up for basketball. We had paid for her to be on a danceline this year but not being enrolled a the public school stopped that at the last minute. She was pretty upset about it since she had a good friend on the danceline. We have studied mythology briefly and are also doing a bit of geology.

Mandy also now has a dirt bike. She has been tearing up some dirt for about two months now! Enough for today I have classes this morning.

Mandie is loving her lessons now! Even with the heat of summer beginning to rise she is still ready to go. Yesterday she went with another homeschool friend and spent fuve hours at the pool. Great physical work out for PE. I would be burnt beyond recognition but thankfully she uses her sunscreen! Saturday she had her fourth riding lesson. I took pictures of course and wanted to share.

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These lessons have turned out to be teaching Mandie even more real world lessons. She has arranged with her Instructor to work for extra riding time. Never too early to learn that if you work hard you can achieve your goals.

I signed up for some email from a site and found some cool things. This is what I found! 

I signed up to do a survey that took only a couple of minutes and got a $25.00 gift certificate from Target.

Good Surfing,

Good Day

Hope

We started looking for interesting sites for astronomy and wanted to share what we found. I don't own any of these sites and as always parents should check them out. I thought they were nice, educational, and might save someone a search.

Astronomy Vocabulary 1

Astronomy Vocabulary 2

Nice site about the secrets of the Universe covers science as well as astronomy.

Science hangman can make your own game also using any vocabulary.

Worksheets

This activity will help students learn astronomy vocabulary.

teacher printables and freebies on side menu

fun educational printable games maps activities

Who is Galileo?

great site to learn about each planet and much more

Name the planets in order game

StarChild A Learning Center for Young Astronomers

site for 14 and up

Detailed with solar systems and many good links

Printables and goodies in the Grab Bag section also lessons

Activity for ten children to learn the planets

Solar Eclipse

Space lessons

Astronomy 101

Space and Astronomy for kids

God Bless

Hope

I am working my way around. I just began loading images to a free image hosting site I found and uploaded some images from our day. I hope someone else enjoys this as much as we did. It is a pictorial story about the day "Wilma" the butterfly came to visit.

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Just some more blessings we wanted to share!

Hope

I found a great link on another Mom's site and wanted to share it with everyone. You can get an e-book your kids will love for free. You can get it here.

In just twenty minutes from downloading this my daughter went crazy and had to do an experiment. We made this photo show to share. It looks like a really big mess but cleaned up fairly easily. REALLY

Watch the Mad Scientest Show here.

There were other free ebooks so why not check it out if you have time.

Thanks to "momwith3kids" for a great find.

Look out world God has blessed me with a blog!

Hope

An afternoon out with my daughter. First a movie then feed the birds.

I have been watching the eagles live video stream with my daughter and keeping an eye on the eggs. Some people have been jumping the gun so to say and saying they have hatched. I haven't seen a baby yet though. I wondered if anyone else here has been watching God's wonderful gift to us? I have been rather engrossed by watching this pair of eagles and the two eggs they have. The first egg was laid March 21 and the next four days later. Generally takes about 35 days to hatch. This pair of eagles is in someones front yard on Hornby Island. There is a cam placed in another tree not too far and you can watch this live feed. My twelve year old daughter seems to be a little less involved than I am but, I can't help watching what has never been seen before. It is fantastic. I have another browser open right now watching closely to see if the mama eagle will get up and stretch or if that baby who seems to be overdue will finally come into this great big world.

Hope