Posted in Field trips & tours, plays, pictures, Daily log, art, Fun, history on Sep 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
We’re back from our overnight trip to Mankato and packed in lots of wonderful stuff.
We started out attending a homeschool potluck picnic, where we all ate great food and played/yapped with friends until well after dark….
We got to Grandma and Grandpa’s house pretty late, with just enough time to play a little and listen to […]
Posted in plans for the day, plays, Field trips & tours on Sep 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
We’re off to Mankato again, this time for a homeschool picnic, an overnight visit with the in-laws and then a Betsy Tacy historic reenactment walk tomorrow. The girls are going to get to be old fashioned children playing in the schoolyard! It should be a fun trip.
Posted in plans for the day, plays, pictures on Jul 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Say that 10 times fast!
I took the kids to audition for the local production of “Beauty and the Beast” this morning. Jack decided it was a little too scary and didn’t try out, but Victoria and Anna couldn’t have been dragged away.
They had the kids stand in a semi-circle on the stage […]
Posted in plays, Anna, Victoria on Jul 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Tonight was the last performance of “Fragments of a Dream,” the outdoor play that Daryl and the girls are in based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s time here in nearby Walnut Grove.
The night went well and Daryl bought each girl a souvenier T-shirt, like every year, and they went around with Sharpie pens and had the […]
Posted in plays, Anna, Victoria, pictures on Jul 19th, 2008 No Comments »
The boys and I went to the pageant last night with Grandma and Grandpa. I got some pics backstage before the show…
And some of the girls acting silly…
Grandma, Grandpa and the boys in the audience…
And some of the scenes… The arrival in Walnut Grove, Getting used to living in a dugout, and Anna’s […]
Posted in plays on Jul 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Opening night went well for the pageant last night. They had nearly 800 paid seats, which is pretty good considering the temps were in the 90’s and there was a tornado watch! Luckily, the rain all missed us and the night turned balmy and cool after dark.
Everybody did well and the kids saw some friends […]
Posted in Full Disclosure, magical moments, plays, Daily log on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Tonight was media night for the Wilder Pageant, so Daryl and the girls had to be in full costume and ready to pose for newspaper photographers and such (this picture is from media night two years ago!). We did a grocery run in the afternoon and got home just in time to dash about […]
Posted in plays, Victoria, pictures on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
It was picture day for Victoria’s “family” in the Wilder Pageant on Thursday so she had to get in full costume. I took a picture before she left for the set. Here’s my little girl as Lydia Beetle.
Her lines, from the grasshopper plague scene:
“Mama, Mama, I can’t sleep.”
(Mama hushes her and tells her […]
Posted in plays, reading on Jun 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Daryl adapted a segment of the first Betsy-Tacy book for reader’s theater. In reader’s theater, the cast members simply read their parts like several people telling a story. There is the fun of acting without the trouble of memorizing parts, making stages and such. The participants can have fun dressing the part and gathering props […]
Posted in Daily log, Goals, PE, plays, social studies, art, math, reading, science, history, writing on May 6th, 2008 No Comments »
I haven’t posted a HS log lately so I thought I’d jot down some of what we’ve been doing. All the birthdays took up most of last week but a lot of neat stuff has gone on…
Science:
We’ve seen “our” beaver several more times since that first visit and now we slow down the […]
I'm a frazzled AP mom to 4 fabulous kids in rural Minnesota. Homeschooling here tends to be child-led and focused on fun. We do lots of crafts, reading and exploring. I'm madly in love with my brilliant, goofy lug of a husband and I don't get nearly enough sleep.