weekly wrap-up: yellow ball

We had a very busy and full week.  We rowed the book Yellow Ball.  Which means we read the book every day and did activities to supplement the book.  This is a great addition to our daily school work.  It's a lot of fun to really get into the book and see what you can discover.  Our week was also very busy with a full schedule of activities.  April has started back into piano lessons.  She is also still doing her horse lessons one day a week.  She has also had another opportunity to join a cross country team and decided to give it a try.  I am amazed at the opportunities that have opened up for her.  We have even had to say no to some other things because it's just too much.  She is also starting a 4-H horse club, and the first meeting was last Saturday.  We are very excited for that new adventure.  I don't really have much for the boys that's extra though.  I wish we had some sort of co-op for them.  So, I took them out to the BMX track on Friday and they got to ride their bikes.  Aric even loved trying to go over the hills and around.

On to the pictures!  I certainly didn't get pictures of everything.  I mostly have pictures of the yellow ball activities with a few other randoms from other things.

We cut down our one huge sunflower so the kids could explore and pick the seeds out.

Dot painting yellow Y's for yellow ball

April likes to participate in the yellow ball activities too.  She id a color by number ball.  Not very challenging for her, but fun.

This was my favorite activity.  Re-creating the cover of the book with pastels.  It was a nice art project and all the kids could do it.  Pastels are something new to us, so this was pretty exciting for all the kids.

...ta da!

All of the finished art work.

The Oregon Garden had a homeschool day so we had a fun field trip in the middle of the week.  This is the only picture I got while they were playing in the kids garden area.  It was really a rush for us to get through the whole garden before April's horse lesson.  I wish we could have enjoyed it more.  It's such a beautiful place.

I loved the idea from Our Homeschool fun to get some lemons and make lemonade as part of our row.  So, I gave hints as to what is shaped round, and yellow, and makes a refreshing drink.  They of course said lemonade, which means we picked up a bag of lemons.  Then they got to squeeze their own lemonade.

Aaron's juice squeezer.  This is actually his squeezer that he wanted for Christmas (which he got).

Aric, April, and I just squeezed them by hand.

Some of the printables we worked on.  Lacing yellow yarn balls from Confessions of a homeschooler, and the Y color by number too.

I love these moments.  April was helping Aric color his picture.

Aric lacing his yellow yarn ball.

I made both boys a Yellow ball lapbook from homeschool share.

I think their favorite was the throw and catch baseball players.

Aaron working on coloring his.

Science fun.  We made a little styrofoam ball levitate on a straw by blowing into the straw.  The kids had fun with this.  I just realized too that it kinda goes along with our yellow ball week!

April could keep it up there pretty long.

April practicing in her cursive writing book.

April refilled the bird feeders

That was our week!  Now onto a new one.