Our Favorite Photos - Linking Up With The Homeschool Village

The topic today at The Homeschool Village is "Yearbook" - sharing our favorite homeschool photos. I take pictures of EVERYTHING, so it's hard to narrow it down to a few of my favorites, but I will try!

The very first lapbook Miss B. completed!

Miss B and I at a fabulous butterfly house at the Margaret Strong Museum in Rochester, NY... our whole trip to NY was one huge educational field trip!

Our favorite science experiment - color changing milk!

Gman working on his journal on our mock Lewis & Clarke Expedition

Brother and sister enjoying time together. I love that homeschooling has brought them closer.

My favorite craft we have done.... our Easter flowerpot with flowers representing devotions we did on the days leading up to Easter. It was so meaningful for all of us.

I love looking through all of the photos we've taken. It makes me see how much the children are learning, and how (even on the hardest of days) homeschooling is SO WORTH IT!

Three Things I Love This Thursday

I have been wanting to share some fun little things we are using in our homeschool which I LOVE, so I thought I'd pick three of them today. The awesome thing is that one is FREE and one is $.99 (the other is $9.63 - oops!).

KANOODLE!

I bought this game at a toy store last weekend. Wow! The kids have played it a lot and it's fun for adults, too... it is awesome for spatial awareness and logical thinking. It can be alone or with two people, and it has levels from very easy to VERY hard. I've left it on the coffee table and when people walk by they play. Very fun. I found it for $9.63 on Amazon (see link above) ~ I was a sucker and paid $13.99 at the toy store. In my opinion, it is worth it.

Stack the States

is one of the most valuable apps we have purchased for our iPad at a whopping $.99! It's a fun geography game for all ages - teaching state location, capitals, trivia, etc... You can get the lite version for free to see if you like it. It was voted the Best iPad Kids App. of 2010 (how did I miss it in 2010?!?)

image courtesty iTunes

The Wonder Clock
by Howard Pyle - you can read this book FREE online. It is a book of 24 (one for each hour of the day) beautifully crafted fairy tales and exquisite illustrations. Pyle wrote and illustrated this book in 1887 and it really is a gem. Both of my children are enjoying this read-aloud. We are reading it on our iPad (I cannot tell you, by the way, how beneficial the iPad is to our homeschool... much more so than a laptop, in my opinion).

image courtesy Goodreads.com