Ready for Some Roadschooling!

We've been pretty busy lately. We had our last co-op day plus our end of the year party last week! It is sad that the kids won't be learning together anymore, but we'll still see each other for play dates and field trips with the larger homeschool group in the area.

I've been getting everything ready for S's new school year. He's so excited about it that he has already asked if we can start. We created an Everyday Learning binder like this one that I found on Pinterest from The Teacher Wife. S is most excited about his new science curriculum, his new Life of Fred: Butterflies book, and we are going to see how he likes History Odyssey: Ancients Level 1. For science we'll be testing out Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding as well as the free Life Science curriculum from Mr. Q. There is obviously more, but those are the 3 things he asks for specifically. I'm having him wait on the science and History until after our trip (I'll get to that in a moment), but I may let him start LOF this week since we'll be bringing it with us anyway.

S playing Let's Drive.

About our trip... we are going on a roadschooling adventure with another family. Well, the husbands can't go because they have work (and someone has to stay home to take care of the pets), but us crazy wives are taking the kids on the road for some fun and adventure! We'll be out and about for close to a month! We'll be camping in the great outdoors and exploring in GA, KY, OH, NY, NH, MA, PA, and we're stopping in Washington, D.C. as well. We'll be visiting aquariums, zoos, historical sites, hiking mountains, going on whale watches and just having a lot of fun! Of course, we'll be stopping in to visit relatives in one of the states as well as friends all over which will be nice too. S is bringing his LOF book, some reading books, and a couple workbooks that he wants to bring. He's also decided to journal about the trip every night so that when we get home he can show Daddy all the thing we did. Aside from that we have some fun History lessons planned, as well as state studies, postcard books, landforms and topography lessons, and general outdoor education lessons. We'll be bringing birding guides and a book or two on animal tracks just in case we spot any and want to identify them. S has had his backpack packed since we started planning and every day he adds something new to it. He is very excited!

We got a new game called Let's Drive that goes great with our upcoming trip! S has been playing it so much and loves learning all kinds of fun facts about the different states! I wrote a review of it on my other blog, if you are interested.

We recently had a water exploration day at our house. Quite a few people came by to swim, play, and just explore the different watery fun things we had set out. One of the boys' favorite things was the water beads. Once it was time to clean up they decided they wanted to keep them, so I decided it might be nice to turn them into calm down jars (bottles really). The boys helped add the water beads and some shiny stars and moons and they love them! They sat for the rest of the day with them right by their sides. It was almost comical. When the beads start to dehydrate all I have to do is add water to get them back to the right size. It's wonderful how simple things keep them happy!

Anyway, I will be on blog hiatus while we are on our adventure, but you can be sure I'll be posting about it once we return!