Field trip Friday, Dr. Seuss and more

Okay, so today is a little over one week from my last blog but it's still technically "next week" so it'll pass for my weekly post about our School of Z's XYZ blog. Last Friday, the day after the first post I began with taking Z's 1-4 to a historical sight. On this Field Trip Friday we decided to encounter the wonders of Fort Southwest Point, a soldier fort in Kingston, Tennessee. The kids had a blast, we took pictures and read the history of the fort's purpose and the importance of it and walked through the museum and talked about the archeological digs and artifacts on top of which the museum director gave the kids pencils and wooden nickels which they are still carrying around like a treasure. At the beginning of this week they wrote in their Wonder Journals about our travels and since the sun came out for the first time in a month I allowed the kids some outside time to unleash those imaginations. Later, still relishing in the aftermath of Dr. Suess' birthday last week, Z2 insisted after he read Green Eggs and Ham for the fourth time this week that we should make some and I was going to love it. I let the kids have a substitute, my mother, for a few days since her class is on spring break. They worked on their worksheets and read a ton of books she'd just bought. It was a nice change of pace for them and me and gave me a chance to get our home office started so I would have a hub to house all of our homeschool wares. So Friday, yesterday, it was more worksheets just to make sure I am hitting all the high notes as we go along. Their workbook is a source of checks and balances for me so that I can stay on task between holidays, projects and trips. Coming up for next week, studying and celebrating St. Patrick's Day it's history and significance, we are Irish descendents, after all. Oh, I think I found an excuse to eat green eggs and ham... I will have to tell Z2!