I was reading through some of Kelly’s science journal entries and came across this one I thought was cute. Her science text is an in depth look at flying creatures and insects. After two or three pages pass, she has to write to a journal prompt.
This is what she wrote:
1/17/06
Male birds show off [...]

At our homeschool group, we’ve had two guest speakers come in and visit with the kids. The first visit was a Sgt with our local sheriffs dept. He gave a presentation to the kids about the effects of drinking and driving and the repercussions that came along with it. After watching a [...]

Well, today Sarah is volunteering at our Vet clinic. She’s wanted to be a veternarian forever so a few weeks ago she asked our vet if she could do some volunteer work. She even said she’d clean cages if that’s what was needed. They agreed to let her come in on Saturdays [...]

Last night at Church, the GA’s were making cards to share with someone this week. When Kelly came home and showed me her’s, I had to take a picture of it.

A few months ago, Sarah was walking the dog when she came running in and said “Give me the camera, you’re not gonna believe this!” So out the door she flies and when she came in we had one of the neatest pictures I’ve ever seen. It looks like a mountain but it’s [...]

We stopped at the library while in town and Kelly ran in and picked up a book she had on hold. Our librarian gets it and enters her card number but then has a strange look on her face. She said the computer popped up “Ask patron for ID. This card [...]

Since the girls were out so late last night at church, I knew getting them to do anything would be near impossible. So today we cleaned house. DEEPLY.. hehe. Nothing like washing walls, scrubbing floors and moving furniture to make you appreciate the quietness of schoolwork. It was a nice break [...]

Tonight the girls went to church where they have youth nights. Well, Kelly loves jewelry and was running when her ring got caught on the door as it was closing. It pinched the ring in half and broke it. Her finger swelled up huge and it’s still pretty big. I [...]

The other day Sarah had a checkup at the eye doctor. He changed her prescritpion and said that she needs to wear her glasses more often. At first it was only in relation to driving, but now it’s just most of the time. So the other night, she came inside and said…
Sarah: [...]

Well, after my host lost all my files and everything I had to restart our homeschool pages over. And so it begins..