Green Eggs & the Park

Part of the joy having my children home with me and doing school at home it is easy to throw something new in for fun. On Monday, all the boys were working on their math and Kaylie was sitting beside me and I heard her keep saying, "I don't like them. I don't like them." So I finally looked down and saw her looking through "Green Eggs and Ham". I asked her if she wanted me to read her the book and she said yes and climbed up on my lap. After reading the book, we decided we would make green eggs for lunch!!! The boys were pretty excited about it...Kaylie not as thrilled (she doesn't care for eggs anyway.)
On Tuesday, I HAD to get out of the house. Jeff wasn't going to be home for lunch that day so I knew there would be no break from my duties. So I decided, last minute, that we would do lunch in the park and do some school in the park. All the boys had already finished their basics, like math and language arts, so we were going to throw in some science (the study of God's creation, ie insects and flowers), art (the drawing of God's creation), life/social skills (communicating and getting along with the other adults and children at the park) and PE (running, climbing, jumping, see-saw'ing, etc.) that afternoon...not only that, once they began their "PE" then I would be able to relax in the warmth of the sun and the beauty of the scenery, while also getting some enjoyable reading in!





Tanner drawing a flower.
Preston trying to decide what to draw next.

**Notice the scenery!**

Using the magnify glass to look at a bee.

Is that Sherlock Holmes or Landon?!?

I do want to mention the whole "social" issue that so many non-homeschoolers are concerned about. The couple of hours that we were at this park my children began conversations with adults, whether about their dogs or their baby, and they made "friends" with all the children close to their age at that park. They brought the other kids into the "games" they were playing.

I remember hearing about a study was done on the whole "socialization" thing, and they put public school kids (high school ages) and homeschoolers together in a group. What struck me and therefore I remember, the biggest observation seen was the public school kids stayed in their own groups amongst their peers, while the homeschoolers were the ones who introduced themselves to others and began conversations with those they didn't know. My question is, who will do better in the "real" world?

Here the kids are playing "pirates".

I'm not sure what the girls were playing, I just no the blonde was being called "lady bug" and Kaylie was being called "cat".