Our little girl is no longer little and is a gorgous young lady. She and her handsome Dad attended the Red Carpet Premiere Homeschool Dance on Friday, May 2nd. She looked beautiful in her orange tafetta gown that her Grandma Theo bought her while her parents were in New York City. Jas and Dad went to Mader's downtown for a genuine German dinner.

As a Senior, she was recognized and given a "Star" of honor. They had a wonderful time and took 100+ photos. Yes, homeschoolers know how to socialize and have a great fun evening.

Our next big event is her graduation. We attended the 1st mandatory meeting last night, got her cap and gown, honor tassle and signed her diploma. We have a powerpoint presentation to create for her party on the 8th of June and a display board to decorate for the graduation ceremony on Saturday, the 7th of June. She has invitations to finish, adddress and mail and a new dress she wants to make for graduation and it will also count for the Fair.

She has 2 more weeks of classes. Her most complex speech, a 7-10 minute persuasive speech was Wed. She did great even though she chose a tough topic of  " Persuading her audience that Homeschooling is a viable option for parents to choose for their children's education." She has to critique herself on all her 7 speeches and write an essay about her speeches as her final which is due Monday.

The boys and I have about 3 more weeks of full school left. After June 1st, we will pare it down to Math and Reading each day. Ben has a quilt pillowcase to make, a Fishing educational Display, an art project to finish and his model DC-8 airplane to finalize- it is all glued together, now comes all the finishing touches and decals which we will have to create ourselves. He is creating a NASA DC-8 model. We can't find any NASA decals so we bought decal paper last night and we will have some Math problems to figure out to make it 1-72 scale.

Kenny is progressing on his reading in the last month. He now reads road signs and tries the billboards at times. The boys and I are just finishing our 1.5 year study of Botany!!!! We have one more chapter to read and discuss, then we will go to the Domes on Monday to review all the plants we studied. I will need to take all their drawings and notes and make a book for each of them.

Ben will start his General Science with Apologia Science in August. Kenny and I are excited to start a new study on all the creatures who were created on the 5th day of creation. I just organized all the notebooking pages last night for that study.

We are finished with our History/Literature/Church History/Geography/Fine Arts for this school year. We will begin studying the 1800's in August, about 2 weeks before Jas leaves for college. Ben listened to the 10+ hours of audiobook "Swiss Family Robinson" over the last few weeks, so Sunday night we watched the Disney version of the movie. After the movie, he and I worked out a compare/contrast worksheet between the movie and the unabridged book. He liked the book much better and we will work on his draft of this paper over the next week or so.

I have to go to work tonight so off to the kitchen I go to make supper at 3:30PM- how strange is that???

Check in again in a few days to see what other interesting things we Kojis' are doing-

Love-Sarah