The Last Days of School

May 16th

May 16th was our official last last of school!  We have a few more field trips, a book club event, and a few simple machine labs next week.  But we are FINISHED with all our courses for the year!  Yeah!!! I had the girls Treasure Notebooks out for them to add the finishing touches today.  I also had all their lapbooks/notebooks for the year ready for them to take to their room.  Their desks were complete with Promotion Certificates and Report Cards.  It has been a FUN year of learning!

Lyndsey has been requesting a Presidents party since we finished learning the Presidents a few weeks ago.  Over the course of the year, we have studied each individual president and learned interesting facts about them.  We made a President Lapbook like this one over at Homeschoolshare.com.  The girls recorded facts in each presidential matchbook.  They also learned a song so they can name all 44 presidents in order!

The girls really pulled together this "party" for lunch!  I put some chicken strips in the oven while they dipped patriotic strawberries and built a log cabin and the Lincoln Memorial!

On the Menu

Cherries for George Washington

Jelly beans fro Ronald Reagan

Peanuts for Georgia boy Jimmy Carter

Pretzels for George W. Bush

Patriotic Strawberries

May 22nd

We celebrated The Last Day of School with Corynne and Tyler today.  Tyler actually took his last final on Friday, May 16th.  Corynne took her last final today.  Sonic Drive-In had 50 cent corny dogs to celebrate National Last Day of School today!  Yeah, Sonic!!

 

After our Sonic treat, Lauren, Lyndsey and I headed to homeschool book club.  We have been reading One White Dolphin this week.  Let me rephrase that.  We have read 60% of said book TODAY, and we finished the last chapter on the way to book club!!! It was a great book, and I look the Read Aloud time together!

It was a small group this month, but the girls discussed their favorite parts of the book. Then they each built a boat.  Lauren named her boat the "Mona" just like in the book.

After everyone was finished, we gathered at the fountain to see if the boats would sail.  THEY DID!  Our boatbuilders did a great job!