Home's-Cool!

This year I decided to avoid my typical Evelyn's-back-in-school-depression, so I gave in to Evelyn's requests to be home-schooled! We love it! We love all the time together, and trying to find interesting and fun ways to make any information stick. Evelyn's favorite classes right now are Math (Go figure! I never thought I would hear that! Love "Life of Fred!") and P.E. and typing.

   We enrolled Evelyn in a swim class with a lot of other home-schooled children. I love having an official teacher work with her; all her nervousness has just evaporated and she is determined to practice hard because she was a little behind the other kids because its her first year. She swims so hard and long that her shoulders are getting quite toned! Eventually we are still hoping to enroll her in some sort of dance class.

   For History, we have done all sorts of mini units on all sorts of eras of history. We've talked about Ancient Greece, and the Olympics. We discussed Ancient Rome, and Medieval times. Now we are starting our study of the Renaissance.

This is Evelyn dressed up as the goddess of wisdom: Athena

This is Evelyn: the winner of the Adam's Olympics!

   We got to go on a field trip to the Hogle Zoo. It was on a very cold and rainy day in September. I think it was 48 degrees!

Because of that a lot of the big cats were very active! We especially loved the lions. The adult females were batting their ball all over their enclosure, and the cubs were stalking children!--Evelyn was pounced at twice! The cubs are now about the size of Labrador retrievers, so it is quite intimidating.

Evelyn has a blanket wrapped around her under that coat!

Right before she got pounced on!