What Have We Been Up To?

Oh, a little of this and a little of that. 

We've been spending quality time together. 

We've been finishing patio furniture. 

We've been playing in the rain. 

We've been finding worms and roly-polies and slugs, and creating temporary habitats for them so we can learn more about them. We've been learning about how carnivorous plants digest their meals. 

We've been skinning our knees. And our hands. And our shoulders. And our feet. And wrecking our pants. And we've been getting fillings on our front teeth, because some little crapturd neighbor kid cherry bombed us on the seesaw and chipped our tooth (a cherry bomb, for the rest of us, is when you jump off the seesaw while your friend is up in the air). 

We've been feeding ducks and swans and checking out the local wildlife. Today, we visited a lovely (and free!) "zoo" near Burglegenfeld, Germany which featured native animals in decent enclosures. We were able to buy food to feed them, which was pretty fun. We wish we could have spent longer there, but we had to hurry off to the dentist (see above description of incident). 

And we've been finishing up our school year. Our official last day is next Friday. Bay just tested out of her algebra program, and we got her enrolled in high school for the fall. Tuna and I are reading By the Shores of Silver Creek, and she is still loving the Little House series, so we plan to continue the rest of the series throughout the summer. She's still loving Life of Fred, but we will be wrapping that up soon. And she has absolutely loved Story of the World. 

I am so glad we made the decision to homeschool this year. I look forward to our fifth grade year and I hope Bay's year at high school goes well. Of course, if it doesn't, she can always come home and we'll have loads of fun. 

On the agenda for the rest of this week: a cook rice experiment, a can crushing experiment, a tree exploration, some cooking, and lots of snuggly reading. 

Hope you're all well. :)