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.

Mardi Gras Celebration

The week before vacation ended on a quiet note. We wrapped up some reading assessments and math practice. During vacation, we were able to attend the Bangor Public Library's Mardi Gras Celebration.
http://www.wabi.tv/news/27843/kids-celebrate-mardi-gras-at-bangor-public-library
The mask making and parade was a lot of fun for area children. We spent the time reminiscing about our trip to New Orleans in 2010. It was a short trip, next time we hope to stay longer. Visiting the French Quarter and the mighty Mississippi River was wonderful.

This week we begin our Eve Bunting Author Study. We visited the Belfast Library and chose books to compare and contrast the topics of United States History, Contemporary Situations, Animals, Plants, American Symbols, Holidays and Family. We will be viewing these topics through literary elements. I am using a lot of resources found on the internet to supplement this unit.

Valentine Exchange

 We made heart shaped crayons for the Valentine's Day exchange. The crayons were accompanied by a baggie of candy. This was a great way to use up crayon pieces. After completing most of the crayons, we found some science experiments regarding the melt time of various crayons. I wish that I had thought of that so that we could have completed a Scientific Experiment record. We used about three different types of crayons. Oh well, maybe in the future.

Learning about plants

On Friday, we attended the Wild Plants of Maine discussion at the Camden Public Library. Sponsored by HOME http://www.homeschoolersofmaine.org/public/index.cfm?fuseaction=articles.view&id=13942
We learned about local edible plants from Tom Seymour and watched his slide show of these plants. He also discussed when during the growing season, we would find many of these plants. Tom Seymour has his own blog. It is definitely an interesting and informative read. Check it out here: http://wildplantsandwoolybears.blogspot.com/
While at the event, we signed up to participate in the HOME Home Grown Gardens activity. Information is here: http://www.homeschoolersofmaine.org/public/index.cfm?fuseaction=articles.view&id=8172
I included many links in this post so that I could give everyone accurate credit.

We have looked at our seeds and have been planning our garden. We may possibly try to sow some seeds early.