Back to School 2016

Here is a very quick look at what we are doing this year:

Hermione is back at Aumsville Elementary in 4th Grade with a teacher she really likes this year!  She is currently reading The Sister's Grimm and says, "It is the next best thing to Harry Potter."  Also she says, "If you don't like bacon you are a special kind of weird or the absolute weirdest."



Ariana and Lucy are still at home.  Ariana is using Easy Peasy.  Lucy is VERY flexibly working on Little Hands to Heaven.  She doesn't really want to listen so far, but you never know.  I let her play educational games on the computer when Ariana is working on non-computer things.  Also every Friday will be Field Trip Friday.  I will be taking the little girls to fun places around our area which is Salem, OREGON and the closer to home areas of the Willamette Valley.  Our first stop was the Travel Cafe visitor's center.  There is no coffee here (at least I didn't see any) so don't get your hopes up.  


We grabbed brochures and a map and snapped some fun pictures before walking to the Salem Center Mall!

Welcome to Salem, OR!

Mustache fun with the "gold man"

Pizza and Orange Julius at the Salem Center Mall

Looking at the mall through the eyes of a child is overwhelming!  We had loads of fun and ate too much.  We even stopped at the Book Bin on the way back with some school work books.  

Lucy's letter for next week is M so going to the MALL was perfect!  

As a birthday present to Ariana I gave her a cooking lesson subscription so every Sunday we will have cooking lessons!  We have already done 2 recipes and I can't wait to share a review but that will be for another time.  Happy New School Year of 2016!  

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