Field trips and fun

As always, field trips are a big part of our homeschool.  We're so lucky to have such a fabulous community and seemingly endless possibilities for real-life learning.  So far this semester, Avery has gone to see the opera La Traviata, the older kids got to go canoeing, try their hands at archery, and play paintball (as a part of the best birthday party ever -- and on a school day too!), plus we've gone to see a semi-conductor, toured the Mother's Milk Bank, and today we explored and learned all about UT's power plant.

We are also still enjoying our co-ops.  Avery is still loving debate and is also having a great time with her writing class.  She is currently working with a friend on a story written in the form of texting for class.  Both Avery and Rhys are thrilled with their book groups.  All three kids have had fun trying their hand at Destination Imagination challenges with friends, and we're all still loving our history co-op.  This week the kids made colonial wigs, and Avery and Aubry put on a violin and piano concert for us afterward. 

And we still manage to have some fun at home too.  Griffin has been reading Beatrix Potter books, so we all had an English tea party one afternoon.  Rhys entertained us by reading aloud the funny parts of his Ramona books.