May 15, 2020

School Year Favorites


We finished our school year last Friday.  Testing this year wasn't as bad as last year.  Maybe because it wasn't our first time and we knew what to expect.  Whatever the reason, we are glad to be done for a few weeks and enjoy our summer break.  Since our move here (5 days before the pandemic), school was been a struggle.  I'm going to make some changes for next school year and hope that things will be a lot easier.  Then we'll hope for activities to start opening up so we can get involved and start making friends.

Linking up with Andrea and Erika for this weeks favorites.

Our year in review with our favorite things

Look at these two so little

2016-2017

 

2017-2018









 

2018-2019

   

2019-2020
Now so big with big personalities


Lesson planning happened a lot.  This is one area that I'm going to change in the fall.  I can't wait!


Math centers were definitely a favorite throughout the year


Creating sentences on extra large paper was always fun


Finding little notes from Sterling was the sweetest


Taking school outside made it a tiny bit more fun


Our mascot was always by our side


Daddy came home from Afghanistan and surprised us early


Little engineer in the making


We took a field trip on the Disney Cruise and ventured through the ports.


We learned some history on New Orleans


Using manipulatives made math a bit easier


How much water does it take to make 30 pennies fall through a paper towel?  A lot!


Always goofy


And everything's funny when your mom's the teacher


We took a trip to the library and did a scavenger hunt learning about the parts of a book


Science experiments are the only thing that helped us get through the year


We concentrated real hard


We played a lot of games


Doodling made lesson planning more fun.


We spent two months practicing multiplication facts.  Do-a-dots made it bearable!


No dress code required


Packed up all our essential supplies for our move


We made a lot of fun art projects


And learned about dinosaur habitats


Wearing your robe is totally optional and the benefit to homeschooling


We had some fun with gravity



And took extra time to learn about graphs and collecting data.


We spent a lot of time on Adventure Academy.  Sterling learned multiplication from it and Xander learned a lot of history and science facts.  It's good guys!


End of year testing



We've had a tradition to get frozen yogurt on the last day of school since Sterling was three and Xander was four.


It's still a favorite tradition


So glad to be done!


This is how I feel!


If you made it this far, thanks!  We had a fun year and although we didn't take a lot of field trips, it was a pretty good year.  We're not taking the entire summer off.  We're going to work on math and language arts all summer.  Going back in August after not doing anything all summer is pure torture, so not this year.  No summer slide for us.

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