Satori Smiles

Sunday!

Why Sunday? Simply because it is the day we are most likely to do activities together as a family. My husband is super busy during the week (and sometimes on the weekends), so we rarely get to see him. Saturday is too hectic to try to get stuff done, but Sunday is the day we can relax and enjoy ourselves.

David will help participate in some of our homeschooling activities. We will all go for a hike and go geocaching. We’ll make cool crafts! We’ll go on cool field trips.

Here’s some photos of us enjoying our Sundays. Yes, I’m usually the photographer, so not many photos of myself. And it dawned on me that if we weren’t homeschooling, most of these memories would have been made.

Studying Charlie’s Playhouse Giant Timeline:

 Examining dinosaur fossils in Utah:

Literature Pocket Sunday

 Christmas 2008

 Yogurt Cup craft

Looking for crawfish at Mud Lake:

Reading and then family play-acting Lentil:

Whittling soap as a FIAR Lentil activity:

Family drawing Papa Piccolo:

 Family making clay salamanders:

Yesterday Satori got her very own library card, as Boulder only lets you take out 20 books at a time, with two cards, we’ll get 40 books. Then I recalled an idea I got from another blogger earlier this week – her very own homeschool ID card! These are handy to take advantages of discounts at places like museums.

Yesterday Satori and I discussed possible names for our homeschool. I wanted to incorporate the word “mountain”, as we  live on a mountain, and she wanted to add the word “fox”, with our neighborhood foxes visiting us often. So “Fox Mountain Academy” it is!

I wanted to see some examples, so a quick Google brought up the Homeschool Buyers Coop, of which we are member anyway (free to join, and an awesome service). They offered FREE homeschool ID cards! They have an interactive form for you to build your own ID card for free. You can then print and laminate yourself or have them print one for you for a small fee. We made it ourselves.

In 10 minutes, I had this printed out and laminated! (Some info is blurred out for privacy.)

By the way, both a laminator and a paper cutter are great investments for the homeschool. I got to use my new 5-in-1 cutter, it has a “rounded edge” cutter, so we were able to get a nice fancy, rounded edge.

Satori loves it! She’s so very proud.

Now, I would like to get her hair cut and then we’ll have to do another photo shoot (I have a photography studio which comes in handy), so that we can get an updated photo.

She now has two important id cards to store in her purse.