South Family Homeschool - 6th Grade!

 Learning Log 36 Daniel had his last week of Yates Place! He received a year book and got to party with all his Yates Place friends at the park in an event put on by his teachers and the high school students. That was fun! But the best part of this week was getting to do two of his career exploration project interviews! He got to speak with Dr. Alison Whiting who is the curator of herpetology at BYU's Bean Life Museum. That was soooo cool! We got to see the specimen rooms and the DNA lab and she was so kind and helpful.  We also got to speak with Officer Stephanie Whitehead who is our animal control officer here in Payson. She was also very gracious and gave us a lot of really good information about what it takes to be in animal control. We have two more interviews lined up. We will meet with the Sargent over the K9 unit here in Payson today and we will be meeting with the assistant director of freshwater husbandry at the Loveland Living Aquarium on Thursday! I love this as an...

 Learning Log # 35 This week we did Yates Place, where Daniel was featured as one of the students of the week, which was fun! They are wrapping up the year with some fun final projects. It sounds like their Olympic games will happen next week on the final day of school, which is actually just a party at the park! We cleaned out Patch's tank this week and he was VERY happy about that! We also celebrated Birth Mother's Day as well as Mother's Day. I took Mimi out to lunch and made sure to get pictures of her snake for Daniel! Daniel taught the lesson in his church class on Sunday and got to teach about Moses and the fiery serpents from the Old Testament, which was crazy perfect for him, lol! He brought in a large bag of toy snakes and hid them all over the room. He said his lesson went well! We also made cheesecake for Mother's Day and I enjoyed my giant, homemade card! Plus lots of snuggles. Grateful to be this boy's mom!

  Learning Log #34 This week was a fun one! Yates Place, shooting range, LEGO flowers, cookies in the park, making money, exploring at the creek, and generally enjoying the weather before it gets too hot. We are gearing up for our end of the year project and only have two weeks left of Yates Place! It’s hard to believe that it’s already May  🤯