Catching up

Life has been pretty busy, as expected. My finals are finally over! I get a break for a couple of weeks before returning back to school.

 We had dentist visits last week. Both kids were given a clean bill of oral health.

We celebrated with frozen yogurt!

This week we went to a Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils event at a local library. Unfortunately we did not learn much of anything. The geologist seemed to have an enormous amount of information, but the event itself seemed unorganized so it didn't leave much of a chance for learning.

Once we got there we looked at the display of different rocks.

We also got to see some of the tools the geologist used to gather the rocks. From his explanation, it seemed like a difficult task!

 The kids were able to pick out some rocks to take home.

 Jayden entered a raffle for the geode rock (rock #3 above).

And he WON! The day after the event I received a call from the librarian that Jayden won the geode rock. He was so excited. "Mom! Can you believe I won? I never win raffles!" His prize included information about the rock as well. He stored it away in our homeschooling closet for safekeeping. 

After clearing out excess books from our personal library, we hit up a book sale and came home with 17 new books! These books include Magic School Bus books, an English/Spanish Barbie book, a Goosebumps Monster book (3-in-1 book), an Usborne Children's Encyclopedia, a book about the human body, and another book about the solar system.

We also hit up our favorite indoor playground.