Haven at Home Happenings...

Sharing snapshots of our past week...


Beth and Carolynne drawing pictures



Will recreating the Battle of Yorktown



Ally painting with acrylics




A flock of geese we stopped to observe
on the way home from a doctor's appointment



Enjoying a climb at the park
that we stopped to play at



Up the slide



Enjoying a book at the park
(while I worked on a new menu to the left)


While visiting friends on Tuesday,
the children enjoyed gathering together
to learn a few Chinese words...



They, also, enjoyed playing out-of-doors
and were delighted to find this empty turtle shell...



Ally and her friend enjoyed singing with her new guitar...



Suzie enjoyed the ride home...



Friday we enjoyed our morning at the park
with our homeschool group...

swinging and burying toys were among the activities
that kept their interest. ;o)



They, also, enjoyed gathering around the man
that was mowing the grass at the park.
He didn't seem to mind, at all, answering the many questions
from the young inquiring minds.
I will never understand how so many claim
that homeschoolers are unsocialized... it simply is not true. ;o)



Ally and her friend enjoyed a peaceful walk


We, also, found items to add to our nature journals...

Beth selected a piece of the bahaya grass (left),
and even drew the ants that were on the stem,
while Carolynne (middle) and Will (right)
drew and did a leaf rub from a northern red oak.
I was delighted to see how they really looked forward
to this activity and am sure that much of it is from
the new consistency I have put forth
in adding this to our studies.
And what an encouragement it has been to see
how they are able to observe and name those things
we have seen and studied!
I do regret I did not begin this consistent practice
of nature study sooner but am looking forward
to developing it as an enjoyable habit!

If you have ever been interested in beginning nature study,
what a time to do while seatwork has been tapered down
during these warm summer months!


"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world
are clearly seen, being understood by the things
that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead;
so that they are without excuse:" ~ Romans 1:20