Kerr Christian Homeschool Academy

Friday night was our monthly meeting of the Texas Astronomical Society.  Each month, they have an adult program and a kids program.  This year, the kids have been studying the planets and this month was Mars - in honor of the launch next month of the next rover.  Their activities for the night were to identify traits about Mars and then to "build" their own rover.  A working on her rover.              H built one right away with all "pink" legos. C's 1st attempt - it only had one set of wheels and didn't roll too well.  Z's 1st attempt was amazing!!  This boy has a future in robotics, I'm thinking. S's rover - she and Z decided they were going to send manned rovers to Mars.  H added on to hers throughout the entire evening. C's 2nd rover rolled much better than the 1st.  A took the longest to finish her's.  She was having trouble with the wheels wan...

A had a great birthday at the end of September - she requested a Barbie cake with a wedding cake.  She received Barbie Swan Lake movie and a red light for her Astronomy observing. September and October was also filled with football!!!  Z asked to play and had a blast.  They even named a play after him.  It was fake play where the center ( Z ) kept the ball while the others ran to a huddle in the back.  It was very cute to watch and he almost got in on one play!  Also in October, we attended the Alliance Airshow in Fort Worth.  This year, the viewing field was expanded so we were able to walk down most of the flight line and see the planes take off and land.  What a cool way to watch the airshow! We were able to see most of the performers take off.  Can you see the pilot waving?  This year, the featured performers were the Thunderbirds.  We watched them take off and land - very cool!  I'll post ...

School has progressed fairly well this year.  We are averaging 5 hours a day ( http://homeschooltracker.com/ ).  Yes, I do track what we do each day - it's not required.  However, with all we have going on, it's nice to have a written record of what's been done and when.  Also, between all the out of house trips to doctor's appointments and grocery shopping and extra curricular activities - it's nice to see we are actually getting some "real" school work done. Z is playing flagfoot ball this year and that has posed some dinner challenges, especially on Thursday's when S has piano lessons in the early evening and A has violin lessons in the late evening.  We've eatten out a few times more than planned this year - there just isn't enough time between activities on that evening to go home so we've found that DQ has some great on the go deals.  Fortunately, the Thursday evening activities are over and we have just 3 more games - just in time ...