Other than our big field trips, here's a little of what we did in the last several months of kindergarten. Not really that interesting, but I thought I'd put it on here just to have it documented in addition to our plan book and notebook full of sample work.
Well, this actually is interesting. One night in February, we took Suzi and Ivey to see ArcAttack, a wonderful bunch of geeks who put on fabulous, educational shows with their Singing Tesla Coils. It was incredible. They actually had a guy on stage playing the electric guitar between the coils, protected by a Faraday cage suit. Big bolts of lightning were practically touching him! Then they brought out a Faraday cage the size of a small elevator and invited audience members (mostly elementary-aged kids!) to dance inside the cage to music from the Singing Tesla Coils. Suzi didn't want to do it, but we did get to see some friends try it out! I was sad when it was over. I also can't believe I didn't get any pictures. I did buy this awesome quarter though (for me, not Suzi; don't judge me). You should definitely take a minute to look at pictures and watch a few of their videos, especially this one of the Doctor Who theme song. They played the Doctor Who song when we went to see them too, and it made my night. Loved them. I so hope we get to see them again someday.
And now all the rest of this is going to seem quite boring.
Handwriting gets practiced in various ways, and it usually comes out better when it's a meaningful project and not just random copywork.
Or when Suzi has dictated what she is to write herself.
I surprised the girls with some water marbles one morning. They are so much fun, and watching them gradually dry out made for an interesting discussion of evaporation. However, I was disappointed to find that for us, water marbles are a single-use product. They kept bursting, and many of the ones that lasted turned pink with mildew before they dried completely. Yuck.
Homeschool skate! This one was in March, but the last one of the year was in April. Jordan even came with us to the last one. We are going to have to head to the rink some this summer, just as a family outing.
"Randy and Grandma," by Suzi. Randy was my mom's childhood dog. Most of Suzi's writing is done incidentally as a part of one of her own projects. One of my main goals for the end of our kindergarten year was to get her away from constantly asking "how do you spell...?" in favor of writing most words phonetically if she doesn't know how to spell them. She's been doing well with that, and I'm sure her writing will really take off in first grade.
At Easter time, we blew out several duck eggs and the girls decorated theirs with Sharpie markers. We talked about the Ukrainian tradition of pysanky.
We went to the zoo for Robert's birthday--not our regular little zoo, but the much larger Riverbanks. That was a fun little field trip!
And that's about it! There's one more big field trip I need to post about, but I'll have to do that a little later. Robert wants some attention.