Current Extra Curricular Activities
Liberty Girls/American Girls:
Once a month. The girls read 1-2 American Girl books a month, get together with their club and present reports, do crafts and activities, and learn about the time period for that series. They are moving in chronological order. Last school year they did the Kaya series (Native American, 1764) and Felicity series(Colonial, 1774.) This fall they will be working on the Josephina series(Hispanic in American West,1824.) Next spring they will do the Kirsten series (Immigrant Pioneer, 1854)
The girls love, love, love this club!
Homeschool Naturalists
Once a month. This is the fourth year our family has participated in the Homeschool Naturalist class from the Ogden Nature Center.
Homeschool Naturalists
Once a month. This is the fourth year our family has participated in the Homeschool Naturalist class from the Ogden Nature Center.
Art with Annette
Once a month. This will be the girls' fifth school year doing Art classes with Miss Annette. They meet with a local homeschool group once a month. They usually work with oil pastels and watercolors. They have an art show at the end of each class where everyone has to find something they like about each artwork. It has taught the girls to find beauty in every piece of art and how to express what it is they think about a piece by using technical terms. Miss Annette is fantastic.
Girl Scouts
1 to 4 times a week(depending on the time of year and what is going on within each troop.) Both girls are die-hard Scouts. I lead Ramona's troop and co-lead Hermoine's. Nick is doing his 3rd year as Service Unit Cookie Manager in charge of all cookies for all the troops in our area. Needless to say, he stays very busy as well. I joke that I wish the girls would quit, but I really love it as they have learned so much, had tons of fun and made life-long friends in Scouting.
Book Club
Twice a month. We joined a fabulous book club in our old homeschool group in Arizona. When we moved up here I started one because I thought it was a great idea. We have 5 families and have been together for four years now. We move through the books slowly, usually taking two months to read one novel, meeting every two weeks to discuss the books to the assigned reading point and then have a playdate(this has become me-time for the mom's as much as for the kids in our group.) If there is a movie version of the book we have a popcorn and DVD party before moving on to the next choice. With each book there is usually one of the kids who really didn't care for it and others who absolutely loved it. My girls have loved almost everything we've read for Book Club with the following exceptions. The Twenty-One Balloons and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Neither girl cared for either book. There are a three books that are so great for reading groups that we read them in Arizona and then repeated them with our new book club: Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Indian in the Cupboard and Charlotte's Web. Our family has three absolute favorites from our years of Book Club: Charlotte's Web, The Westing Game and The Green Glass Sea (or, as my kids call it, Dewey and Susie #1.)
