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We had an absolutely wonderful time at the Clay County Fair, as we seem to have every year. This year we took in three shows: one on animals of the rainforest, one on big cats that had 5 tigers in it (including a white one!), and one that had an alligator. We arrived at about 10 am and didn't leave until after 5pm. There is so much to do and see! In addition to the shows, we saw many exhibits and walked through most of the animal barns. We rounded out the day with rides on the midway. The food at this fair is awesome as well and I always have a very hard time choosing what to have for lunch. =) There must be about 30-40 or so different food booths. There were too many pics to put in a blog post, so I made a quick & sloppy web page for them.

Click the crazy guy with the stuffed cougar on his head to see the pics:



We could probably spend another whole day there before we would see everything, but that's not going to happen! We've had a terrible cold running through our house, and if my son and I hadn't been nearly over it (just a little coughing now that's clearing things out), we wouldn't have gone. But, sadly, my littlest got it today - we noticed she was coughing some at the fair. It's a really hideous thing that hangs on for about 2 weeks. Fever with chills, congestion & a nasty cough. The doc says nearly all his days are filled right now with seeing people who have gotten this cold. I worry about my littlest, as it seems to have hit her pretty hard all at once. She is resting now, but has a fever. I hope the Tylenol & cold medicine kicks in soon to help her out. The cooler temps and wind at the fair did her no good today.

I don't know how much homeschooling we'll get done tomorrow with a sick little one, but I'm at least going to try to get some things in for DS. I hope everyone had a great day!

Karyn   <----- posted for MrsMom ;)

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For this lesson, I looked up information on Claude Monet and tabbed everything in my browser. I mainly tabbed a pic of Monet and three of his famous paintings (including Waterlilies). We had a "meeting" (thats what the kids called it) in the computer room for the first part of the art lesson. We talked about his life, impressionism and what it meant, and then used Google Earth to zoom in on France. After seeing France, we zoomed in on his hometown of Giverny. The children really enjoyed this lesson!

The first day, we used our watercolors in blues, purples & greens to make our pond background. The second day we tore bits of colored construction paper and glued it to the background for the lilies.

This idea was found on this page:

Monet Waterlilies Lesson

Here are the pics! Cass is 4 and Joshua is 6.

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We just finished building our little communities for the first unit in concept 1 (Moving Beyond the Page curriculum). We are studying communities, and these lessons allowed us to study maps, map keys, 3D shapes (rectangular prism, cube) and community places and workers. I thought the maps turned out pretty good for a 6 year old and a 4 year old!  My 6 year old boy did everything himself, except for me making the box for the map key. My 4 year old daughter drew everything and I helped a lot with the writing, although she wrote "Map Key" herself. Right now we are taking a little break while they play with the hotwheels cars driving around their communities. I think my son even got out some GI Joes and my daughter got out her Polly Pocket dolls to walk around. I heard them out there taking trips to each other's towns. LOL! Anyway, here are the pics!

Cass is 4 years old.

Josh is 6 years old.

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