Back to school...

Well, another school year has started, and this year's going to be a little different from the past years. First of all - the work is harder. Just ask my kids! As they grow up, school work is getting a little more in depth and not as easy as it used to be. Secondly, I'm working Tuesday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. I don't get home until after 2:00, so any help they need has to wait until then. That's also when we review their day's work. Monday's are normal. I am home to help with their work, if they need it, and I try to encourage them to get their work done quickly, so it doesn't take up the whole day. Friday's we have off. That's our favorite!

We've already taken a great field trip - we went to the Florida Museum of Natural History last Friday and camped at Ginny Springs - which was a blast. We saw Mastadon and Mammoth skeletons, giant shark jaws (with teeth!), a chickee (where the indians lived), a shell midden (basically their landfill), lots of things made and used by the Calusa and Tequesta indians.

We love field trips - still! That's definitely the best part of school, for us.

The campground was fun. There are seven different springs there and we played around in 3 of them. We went out into the Santa Fe river and tubed down a ways and then had to fight the current back into another spring to get out. We did that three different times. We rode our bikes - Nick rode his almost non-stop when he wasn't in the springs. They saw lots of fish in the springs and a cave down under the water. It was perfectly clear and freezing cold! One of the scuba divers had a thermometer on his watch and said it was 73 degrees. That's twenty-five degrees colder than our body temperature, for those who think that doesn't sound too bad.

Can't wait for our next field trip!


As always, have a Blessed Day in your homeschool!