HSMJ The one where I discover Poetry

In my life this week…
This week was a particularly restful one as it's our week of rest.  We follow a four weeks of school followed by one week of rest.  It works really well for us and I enjoy the time off and so do my children.
In our home school this week…

• We rested and learned from our environment. We also followed up our mummification experiment.

We will be repeating this experiment as we were rather surprised by the outcomes.  We used course salt.  So we want to see what happens.  I will do an independent post with the results of both.

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…

• Need some ideas for Back to Homeschool Traditions.  Some of the crew have shared their thoughts
• Multiplication Circles over at Highhill Education
• Lesson Planning - Foreign Language over Highhill Education
• Make an easy science activity Jar over at To the Moon and Back
• For those of you doing microscopes and studying all things small book mark Twisted Sifter.  They have the neatest collection of macro photo's to look through.
  Macro Photos of Individual Snowflakes
  21 Extreme Close Ups of the Human Eye
  Water Drop Refractions by Markus Reugels
  Amazing Close-Ups of a Lighter Being Sparked
  Macro Insect Photography by Thomas Shahan
  Incredible Examples of Electron Microscope Photography

Austalian Homeschoolers Please be aware 

Homeschooling under threat in NSW  

We need to stand together and help oneanother because what happens in one state often filters through to other states.
You can sign a petition over at CHANGE.ORG
I am inspired by…

• The beautiful sunset captured by April over at Coffee, Cobwebs, and Curriculum. 
• Schools put genius child in special ed, tell mom he can’t learn. Now he’s free, and he’s on track to win a Nobel Prize

Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…

• We did the usual Tennis and Kelly Sports
• Visited friends and family
• Tonight we are going to see a high school play.  Oklahoma

My favorite thing this week was…

• Visiting friends
• Being selected to review The Homeschool Mothers Devotional Bible 

Things I’m working on…

• Homeschool Help Posts.  This weeks topic is on Teaching Poetry.

In Bloggy world I’m reading…

• I weep for Miley over at Raising Godly Children. 
• God Turns a very Sad situation into a beautiful one on GNLi.com
• A Touching Video About Disabled People on GNLi.com
• Six Things Zookeepers Wish You Knew this was so funny and so true. 
• 29 Essential Tips fro the Top Google Plus Geeks over at Blog Tyrant
• How to use Google+ over at the Smart School House
• Being Somewhere I loved the look of this.  I would love to go and see this home and see how it's built.
• One Man's Profound Words after the love of his life died last week.

On Pinterest I found...

• Homeschool Divas 168 boards of home school support, ideas and inspiration
• Wise Words a board with over 1,500 pins ...

I’m grateful for…

• The DSLR that was gifted to me a year ago.  I am enjoying discovering the art of Photography.

A photo, video, link, or quote to share…

Source

Blessings

Chareen

Photo collages made with: Photoscape a FREE photo editor

Bee Crafty Kids {Crystal Snow Flakes}

Today I am guest posting over at To The Moon and Back where I am sharing a tutorial on making Crystal Snow Flakes. This post has been deleted so I've shared it on my blog you can find the full tutorial here: Crystal Snow Flake {Tutorial}

A couple of years ago Sir N and I tried our hand at growing crystals from a kit set.  While this was fun to do it took a L.O.N.G. time.

On my many Pinterest travels I discovered a wonderful pin on Pinterest on making Borax Snow Flakes.

Pop on over to see a tutorial on how easy it is to grow crystals in 24 hours at home.

For those of you who love Snow Flakes the Twisted Sifter has the most amazing macro photographs of snowflakes to look over.


Blessings
Chareen

Linking with

Welcome to the Virtual Fridge a weekly art meme where we can hang our children's art on a virtual fridge.

Your hosts are

• Jennifer at A Glimpse of our Life - 29 August
• Kym at Homeschool Coffee Break - 5 September
• Nikki at Angels of Heart - 12 September
• Chareen over here - 19 September

A Day out with Dad

As some of you may know my husband has started a blog: Bush Tales by Paul.  One of Paul's passions is bird watching.  On Monday Sir N decided that he would like to go along with Paul on a bird watching expedition.  The two of them packed up an afternoon tea picnic and off they went.

Sir N came and asked if he could please borrow my point and shoot camera.


 Sir N's Photographs
 Here are some of the photographs he took on his day out with Dad.

Just to make sure the camera is working Mom

A Selfie on the way to the bird watching site.

Okay we are here and I am ready to capture some birds

Hey look this is what it looks like inside my binoculars

This is Daddy behind the lens

Lots of yellow flowers in the fields

Looking for birds from the hide

Pelican footprints along the beach

Look at all those tentacles on that Jelly Fish

 I really enjoyed looking at the world through Sir N's eyes.  We recently opened an Instagram account for him and he is enjoying taking photographs.  The best part of this is seeing how he views the world around him. 

As much as I enjoy seeing the world from his perspective the hardest part is actually not inter-fearing and acting director the whole time.  Do any of you struggle with stepping back and letting them be ?

Blessings
Chareen