Spring 2012 Home School Night

There seems to have been a long string of addition posts, so, to break up the monotony, I decided to post about our recent home school night! :)  (Hopefully there will be another addition update up here next week.)

Last week, on the spur of the moment, we had our "end of the year" home school night!  Na-naw and Paw-paw were able to come over, eat dinner with us (Paw-paw arrived a little later due to traveling), and listen to everything we had to share.

The night started off wonderfully with one of our favorite meals:  Salisbury steak and mashed potatoes (whipped to creamy perfection!)!

We also had some sort of veggies and some awesome rolls but I didn't get them in the photo. :)

After dinner, we shared some of our school stuff starting with the oldest.

Hannah shared one of her WriteShop papers.

She also played one beautiful song on the piano!

I was able to get away with sharing only one thing (WriteShop) from school!  :)

 

 Lexi read her report on Charlotte Moon, played a lovely song on the piano, and shared some of her artwork with us.

Paw-paw and Na-naw admiring Lexi's creativity.

Lydia quietly colored while we shared our schoolwork.

 This is what Judah looks like when he's hiding something. :)

 

 

Caleb shared a paper on Orville Wright and played his guitar for us...

I just couldn't stop taking pictures of this little guy! :)

Oh, don't you want to just swing him up in your arms and give those chubby cheeks a big, fat kiss?!  His cuteness overwhelms me sometimes!!!

 Seth recited some Scripture and played a song for us on the piano.

Josiah being silly (far from abnormal).

 

 

Eden played a piano song also and showed off her Draw Write Now handiwork.

Josiah recited one of his character cards.

After Josiah was finished, Lydia said she was going to play a song on the piano.  So she went over, sat down, and started plunking any and every note (sporadically) on the piano! 

After she displayed her piano creativity, she recited one of her character cards.

Then Mama ran through all the other character cards, closing the night with Scripture (what could be better?).

After everyone had shared, we ate some delicious chocolate pie with home made whipped cream!

Thus ended our homeschool night for the 2011-2012 school year! :)

Kimber :)

P.S. - In case you were wondering, I'M GRADUATING IN 9 DAYS!!!  Okay, excitement over just thought I'd share. :)

End-of-the-School-Year Homeschool Night

About twice a year we have a "homeschool night" which consists of a special dinner, a sharing of recent reports or accomplishments in school, and some desserts! :)

The meal for last Friday's homeschool night was grilled tuna steaks, potatoes on the grill, greenbeans, and buttermilk rolls:

We had a special drink for dinner: sparkling juices from Trader Joe's!

There were two flavors of sparkling drinks:  pomegranate and blueberry.  They both were awesome, but I think I like blueberry a little bit more! :)

Lexi set the table with our nicest tablecloth and Mama's fine china and glasses.  It was very pretty!

Eden, Josiah, and Lydia ready for dinner! :)

As we were finishing up our meal, Paw-paw and Na-naw (my grandparents) came in.  After some quick clean-up we settled down in the den.

Eden, Josiah, and Lydia were the "beginning act" and were quite cute! :)

They started off singing the 12 Disciples song. 

Next Eden read a portion of her reading book.

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She's doing a great job reading!  Every morning at family devotions she gets to read a verse or two and she does awesome! :)

 

Seth was up next and he read a report on x-ray's and then played us some music on his chanter.

Caleb came next and he played I'll Fly Away on his guitar.

Next he played the piano...

...and then ended with a report on sound.

Lexi gave a thorough, in-depth report on the eye.  It was quite interesting and I think everyone learned something!

I read one of my WriteShop reports that worked on exaggeration.  (Thanks for the photo, Paw-paw!)

Hannah also read her exaggeration WriteShop paragraphs and another report on Richard Wurmbrand.

Mama watching.

(You can see that Judah is now standing up on things. :) 

Na-naw observing the proceedings.

After we all finished our reports, Lexi  on down to Josiah performed a little play for us.

It was about King Josiah! :)

Once everything was set up Lexi started reading the account from 2 Kings 22 and the play commenced.

The priest, Hilkiah (a.k.a. Caleb), and the scribe, Shaphan (a.k.a. Seth), receiving the word of the Lord from Hulda (a.k.a. Eden), the prophetess.

King Josiah taking the covenant.

There were many things that happened during the play that were so cute and gave everyone a good laugh!  For example, Josiah was supposed to tear his "robe" but he couldn't get the fabric to rip at all! :)

Anyways the play was executed hilariously and wonderfully by Lexi and her cast, providing a good ending for the night!

Before the night ended, though, we had dessert!!

We had key lime pie (so yummy, by the way!)...

...and chocolate pudding pie. :)

A little dollop of homemade whipped cream completed the yumminess! :)

Thus ended our semi-annual homeschool night! :)

Kimber :)