Summer field trips

The end of school has come and with it a huge sigh of relief. Another school year past and now I am full time mom, not evening and weekend mom. I love homeschooling but it is a job. I take my teaching role very seriously, I want my kids to succeed. We've made some mistakes this year but our accomplishments have outweighed our losses and we have learned from them.

Fran and Cosette took their standardized tests for the first time. Cosette is learning alongside Fran so she took the test a year early. I was hesitant to do this and for good reason. It was a competition between them as usual so I will be testing separately next time. Both did well but Cosette has a natural ability to catch on fast to everything academic and did a bit better than Fran. One of the reasons I hate testing. Fran is brilliant in fields that Cosette is not. But since academics is all we test in that is all they see. We will be switching curriculum's around a little next year.

Since we concentrate our schooling in the cool months, shut ourselves in and get our work done, we finish early and when the sun shines and the temperatures rise we are outside, doing field trips, outings, park play dates, or just in our own back yard, enjoying the nice spring and summer months.

We have several field trips planned for this spring, summer and fall!!! If anyone feels they would like to join us we would love it!!! Here are the things we have planned. Tell us what you want to do and we can tell you when we are doing it!

Canal Days
Niagara Falls
Lollipop Farm
Mt Hope Cemetery Murder and Mayhem
Jurassic World
Webster fireman memorial splash pad
NYC(Sorry, that one is just for Fran and Cosette and I :-)
Powdermill Fish Hatchery
Sonnenburg Gardens
Redwings Baseball
Coldstone Creamery
Adirondack Animal Land
Memorial Art Gallery Glass Art and concert
North Ponds Park
Letchworth State Park
Buffalo Zoo

This will take us through July. Again, please let me know if you would like to join us!!!

Enjoy the gorgeous weather!!!
Bethany