This week we took off our home school training wheels and embarked on this journey all by ourselves. While we miss Velvet and loved doing the IDEA program it has been such a joy to make our own decisions. After some thought we decided to pay for the convenience of a complete curriculum and chose Seton. It is super Catholic and has so many more subjects than we are use to doing. Week one was a total success! The kids and parents love it. My own personal goal is to have weekly field trips, library visits and nightly reading.
Our first field trip was to Prophet's town park. I remember reading about it online before moving here. It is a farmstead from the 1920's that is still operational. Volunteers run the small market, blacksmith, and watch over the animals. The kids had so much fun visiting the baby cow (2 days old) and chasing the chickens. After we scoped everything out we ran into our new friends and old neighbors. There children are pretty adventurous so there was more climbing, chicken chasing, park visiting to be had. Overall it was very fun and we will be back.
2 funny side stories...
Matt payed 2 extra dollars so that he could say he was from "out of town" and not an Indiana resident. Plus, he reenacted the whole story of the Indian prophet as told to him by a 90 year old volunteer. Jumping Jehoshaphat it had us all in hysterics.
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| Exactly what I imagined the Indiana landscape to look like. |
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Sophie was reluctant to 'pose' next to the chickens.
Clara volunteered however because of her face and body language it looks more like an "awkward family photo." |
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| This is a barn cat after my own heart sleeping in the sun. |
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| The baby cow was born 2 days prior to our visit. |
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| Happy as a little lark. |
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| Look how small Madeline is next to this draft horse. |
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| Doing everything her sisters do. |
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| Run Clara run |
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| How cool is this?! |
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| Being domestic. |
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| Pinkies up! |
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