Mobile School

On Wednesday we took our school on the road. My mom asked if we wanted to go to Chanute and Independence to put flowers on graves because Monday she wouldn't be able to go. I of course said yes and had planned on just pushing school back a day, but then thought why, it's a long drive we can do school in the car so that's exactly what we did.

We had a lot of book work so it was pretty easy. Liberty did her spelling on her own, while I worked with Teyla. Teyla was suppose to do letter k, but when I picked up her stuff I picked up all the stuff for letter M, so we just went ahead and did M. She made M art and I know this is crazy but she finger painted her M's. Teyla is a pretty clean finger painter, she usually just uses a finger or two so I figured we could still get away with her doing it. I brought some paper towels and it all worked out fine. She then did some tracing work with Mary Mary Quite Contrary. She had to find and circle all the pictures that begin with the letter m, and then she also did some M books. She only worked on her ABC note book because I forgot to pick up her workbook.

Landon did some finger painting too, he is working on the third letter of his name N so I put tape making a N and he finger painted over it.  He also practiced printing the letter N and he practiced writing his name.

Liberty got her spelling done and then she had a test over what she has been learning in Heritage Studies.  She pulled off another A.  In math she is working on rounding to the nearest 100's she will be taking a test over that this Friday.  Science we have finished our curriculum so she has been doing an ocean lapbook, but it has a lot of cutting and pasting and little parts I figured we would take a break from it since we were kinda confined with what we could do in the van. English she had a cumulative review over writing a book report and over the last 3 chapters we went over.  We will start our research project on Tuesday of next week. Reading I forgot her books so she read a book that Grammy had packed in the van, it was her reading book that she read when she was in grade school. The story she read was about a boy detective and his missing dog lady.

We stopped in Iola and headed to the Russel Stover Candy factory. We made this educational by making Liberty round the money to the nearest dollar of everything we bought. I also had her estimate how much money it would take to buy certain things. The kids made out Grammy bought them their favorite Jelly Bellies. After leaving RSC we headed to A&W root beer and grabbed some lunch.

Off to Chanute to decorate graves and then to Independence. It had been raining off an on all day and in the past when we've gone to Independence after decorating graves we have gone to the zoo and the kids really wanted to go again this time too. We told them that we would have to wait and see what it was like when we got there. So when we got in to Independence and it wasn't raining and the sun was shining the kids were ecstatic, just as we put the last flower on the last grave it started raining again. The kids were devastated, but by the time we got out of the cemetery it had cleared up again, and we went to the zoo. It was a great time the following pictures are from the Independence zoo.

We had a great day and 

I really love that home schooling is so flexible