Decorating the Lemonade Shelter



Get your Red, White, & Blue Lemonade here!

40 Book Reading Challenge

Grade 5 Reading Challenge

 

We will be starting the Grade 5 Reading Challenge so many people were discussing on the #MELit Chat on Twitter last night. Reading has been a large part of our homeschooling, however, we have not spent time blogging about it. Beginning this year, we will be entering blog posts about the books being read.

 

I found a document from Mrs. Towey on teacherweb.com that outlined her 40 Book Reading Challenge and used this as a basis for reading this semester.

 

 

January's focus will be continuing problem solving in math, reading comprehension, parts of speech and matter. As an independent topic, she will be learning about the Iditarod.

We are still here...

Well, it has been a long time since our last post, we are still a homeschooling family. Last year was filled with lots of work. We worked through grades 3 & 4 and now are beginning grade 5. Technology has exploded and we are now learning new formats. My hope for this year is more posts and linking our learning to some of the fabulous resources out there.

We will be starting our year at the Common Ground Fair in Unity on Friday, September 20th. We will be attending Education Day. http://www.mofga.org/TheFair/GeneralInformation/SchoolGroupInfo/tabid/524/Default.aspx

My Professional Packet in a Picture

Thanks to tagxedo.com I was able to make my Professional Word Cloud. This cloud is made up from the words which make up my cover letter, resume, and letters of reference. It is exciting to see the words and how often the occur throughout my professional packet.

American Lemonade Pictures

Decorating the lemonade shelter.

Get your Red, White & Blue lemonade here! 

Rain won't dampen our spirits!

Well, Lemonade Day wasn't the success that we had hoped for. It was pouring rain on the Belfast waterfront and we didn't find out until we were setting up that it, in fact, had been postponed. So, we stayed until our best seller, the HOT strawberry-rhubarb lemonade ran out. We received many compliments on the hot lemonade.

Lemonade Day Maine

We will be participating in Lemonade Day Maine on Sunday, June 3, 2012 as a home schooling service learning project. We will be selling red, white and blue lemonade. We have concluded the Lemonade Day workbook, sampled a variety of recipes, and have completed our lemonade stand. A portion of our proceeds with benefit a local animal shelter.