It sometimes starts off like this...especially when you have a new shiny book that you have been wanting for a really long time (Brandon Mull's
Five Kingdom: Sky Raiders) and your amazing mom (yep I am that amazing mom) put in the cart at Sam's Club with out you looking and laid the new book on the desk in your room to see how long it takes you to notice it....How long did it take Jake to notice it? No time at all.
I was going to continue to be the awesome mom but the weather and an uncomfortably high park swing foiled my plans. We had some bread that had been down graded to only duck worthy and hadn't feed the locals in forever so we loaded up some books and old bread and headed to the "lake" (it's really a pond but its called a lake for some reason) .
Jake fed Fred first. He is an ugly looking duck...poor guy...
See what I mean?...
The fish were happy we were there too.
The Canadian Geese are
always the bullies...
Jake threw this lovely lady a piece that landed on her back. It stayed on for probably 5 minutes. Jake was glad that I got a shot of the egg that was in the water too. Poor egg... :(
Our books were waiting and we read a little while but than got chilly and our legs hurt from the weird swing.
See what I mean by chilly? These guys agreed.
So reading commenced at home. This is the kind of mess I love to see in my house. Books, paper, and pencils/pens are all you really need to educate yourself
And books that are so good that you can't stop reading them to eat lunch. :)
We went to the library again today (we were there yesterday for the Homeschooling Club, "School of Thought" [our library rocks], for "Ready, Set, Grow"-where they made a terrarium and a newspaper planter) because Jake could get a free book today! Free + Book = Awesomeness!...No this book is not the one he got for free. This is one he looked up and we couldn't find...So he asked the librarian in the Teen room where to look. Would you believe there is a whole section of books upstairs we never even knew was there!?!
Upstairs is the reference section...and the overflow of the teen section! They only keep the most popular older books (Harry Potter type books) and the new ones (6 months and younger) on the main floor teen section. We are so exploring up there soon!!! Crazy to think Jake is in the teen section but they consider you a teen when you are 12+ and/or a rising 7th grader. Last year Jake did the teen summer reading program when he was only 11! While he was looking at his book I read the large print version (walked by the large print row, and saw it. I have been wanting
to read it for a while so I grabbed it) of
Sarah, Plain and Tall. Is that wrong to check out a book (after I read the whole thing...but it was so good I want to read it to Jake) that is large print when you don't need large print...
Jake also did 45 minutes of math on Khan academy (online and math major, Principal Aaron approved) and started his science fair project (more on that later). Also he didn't just read the Brandon Mull book. We read & discussed, 2 chapters of Vol. 4 of the History of Us...and his library book...and built with Legos and lots of other things...
He is back to reading his new book (the one from Sam's Club not the library and that he has read 178 pages of today) and is going to be bummed that I am almost done with the post because that means he has to stop reading, get a quick haircut (that poor kid has never had a real haircut!), take a shower, and head to bed...Oh wait also add in make his bed because one of his chores today (2 days late....this is a Tuesday chore...) was to change his sheets and they are still in the dryer...
This is a pretty good picture of good day in the life of this homeschooling family. :) Next time I will document what a bad day looks like.
