Ice Skating

We went ice skating with our Get Out Pass.
Dad just got on the ice like he was born to ice skate. 😉😉

Jaden was wobbly at first, but he became more confident as the night went on.
He had a few graceful falls.

Noah was quite the pro skater.

Hiram was the most fun skater to watch.
He kept his balance well most of the night, but not without a lot of sprawling around.

James stayed by the edge for a lot of the night, but by the end, he was fairly confident to skate on his own.

Grant and James

Dad and Noah

Grandpa watched us for a bit, and then went where it was warmer and quieter to read his book.

Hiram and Grant

Handsome Daddy-O

Noah liked to try and attack Hiram and see if he could make him fall down.
Oh, brothers!

Look at Jaden go!

Hiram lookin' good!

Oh what fun Mom had skating on the ice.

Jame-O!

Watch out, Hiram! Don't fall.

Run away!

Jaden and Hiram

Mom skating

Grant was quite the skater.
He just jumped on the ice and skated away.
Hiram and Jaden were impressed by Grant's fearless attitude.

The night was fun and exciting.
We usually only go ice skating about once a year, but it's always memorable.

Grant's Great Schoolwork

Grant does a lot of schoolwork throughout the week.

Besides the core subjects like Language Arts, Math, Science, and History, Grant is learning typing, music, Spanish, gymnastics, and some art as well.

We do homeschool through Tech Trep and every 2 weeks I submit pictures of work that Grant does.

Here is some of Grant's great work.

Here's an example of Grant's writing prompts.

This is Grant's Journey's workbook that he does for language arts.

He does 25 spelling words each week.

He does a math worksheet each morning that reviews what he's been learning.

He has a math workbook that he does each day.

More math.

And more math.

He is doing Idaho History this year.

He has really put together a great interactive notebook that teaches him a lot about Idaho.

He has learn how the Idaho government is run.

He has a science workbook that teaches him lots.
He occasionally does hands on activities as well.

Grant's science review for this week.

And, we are attempting to learn Spanish.
I think I am learning more Spanish than Grant is, but we have fun together.

 

Surprise Movie and Arcade Fun!

It was $5 movie day at Fat Cats on Tuesday.

So, I pulled James out of school and surprised him, Grant, and Grandpa with a movie and popcorn and Fat Cats.

We watched "Sing 2".

We actually had the whole movie theater to ourselves.

There was nobody else there at 1:15 in the afternoon.

On Wednesday we used our Get Out Pass and went back to Fat Cats for some glow-in-the-dark miniature golf.

We also received $5 arcade cards.

Hiram, Jaden, and James won a lot of candy.

Grant won a great big blue ball that he had fun playing with all evening until he accidently popped it.

Jaden, Hiram, Grant, James, Daddy and Grandpa at miniature golf.

Hiram and Jaden won 2,175 tickets at this game and got a bunch of candy.

Can you see all their candy?

James won about 6-700 tickets too, and enjoyed lots of candy.

Grant won his big blue ball on his first try.

Bubble Blow

Grant and James had fun smearing soap and water all over the table and making huge bubbles.