Last Week's Volcanic Eruption

Mt. Redoubt erupted last week. The volcano is way south of us (nearer to Anchorage), but it did disrupt the airlines who couldn't fly because of the ash. Mt. Redoubt has blown before....over a decade ago it was really bad. I was about to fly out of Alaska to go to Argentina, but all planes were grounded. Here is a video of the eruption from last week.

Redoubt Eruption March 27 2009 from Bretwood Higman on Vimeo.

April School Plans

For April Noah will be doing two units from Five in a Row Volume 4, Angelo and The Hatmaker's Sign. We will study Rome, personification, Roman numerals, and inventions with the book Angelo. With The Hatmaker's Sign, we will cover the Declaration of Independence, colonization, sailing, clouds, and some simple concept in economics.

With Zach, we are finishing our history curriculum for the year! We have one more week to go and then we will be done with modern history! This will complete the cycle that we began four years ago. We have gone through ancient history, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, early American History, and then modern history. Next year we will start up again and do Ancient history, but with a different curriculum than we used the first time for Ancients. So since we are going to be done soon with history, I thought we would take some time to do a unit study. We are going to do Helen Keller (the unit from Beyond Five in a Row Volume 2). Here are a couple of resources we will use...

Taekwon-Do Testing

The boys now have their red stripes! After this they need to get their red belt, then their black stripe, and then test to be black belts!

Surprise Painting

AMAZING Art!Christ Painting! - The funniest videos clips are here

Bruchko-Two Great Missionary Stories

I have a heart for South America ever since I visited there (on three different occasions) in the early '90's. One of the books that I read as a teen was Bruchko, a story about a 19 year old, Bruce Olson, from Minnesota who travels to Venezuela all on his own and against his parents' wishes to become a missionary to a stone age tribe (the Motilones-the Spanish name for the tribe. The tribe calls themselves the Barí) in the heart of the jungle on the Colombian/Venezuelan border. His story is so inspiring because he uses their culture to lead them to Christ. For example, the Motilones have the belief that God would come from a banana stalk. When Bruchko (Bruce) realized that the stalk of a banana tree looks like the pages of a book when it is cut open, he showed the tribe a Bible and explained that God truly does come to them through a banana stalk (in the form of the Bible). I recently reread Bruchko and thoroughly enjoyed it the second time around. Tim then read the book to the boys and they were fascinated about the stories of the jungle, how the Motilones lived, and how Bruchko told them about Christ.

Yesterday, I just received in the mail the second book by Bruce Olson, Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle. Although I haven't finished reading it (I am on chapter seven), I am enthralled once again with the story. The second book catches everyone up-to-date on what Bruchko has been doing in the jungle since the last book was written. Once again there are stories of the cultural differences and how the Motilones view the outside world (some of these anecdotes are quite humorous!), and tales of Bruchko's adventures. We are planning on reading this book to the boys too. I can't recommend these two books enough...they will change the way you look at missionaries, native people, and our awesome God! Because of their content (violence towards Bruchko and the tribe), I wouldn't recommend this as a read aloud to your younger children. I would think 8 years and up would be a good age. However, you may want to pre-read the books. Here is Bruce Olson's website.

Dealing with Homeschool Burnout

About this time every year I started to feel burned out. I can't wait for the kids to finish their subjects so that we can take a break from school for part of the summer. I normally attend our homeschool curriculum fair towards the end of April and that helps a bit. This year I decided to buy the book, Add Two Cups of Laughter by Cyndy Regeling and Tammy Duby. These ladies give creative ideas on how to spice up your homeschool. They talk about how to motivate and encourage your students. We started implementing some of those things today and already there is increased motivation to get things done instead of the normal dragging of the feet. I love their ideas because they are so simple and don't take a lot of organization or time. One idea that I want to start implementing is writing them notes of encouragement that I can leave in their schoolwork or even mail to them! One of my goals in the past few months has been to build up my kids and this sounds like a great way to do that! Here are just a few of the other ideas that are in the book:
*Rewards (that cost no money) to motivate a child to get their work done
*Calling a relative to help with schoolwork over the phone a few times just to break up the monotony of the lessons.
*Creating lessons in which your child is the "star" of the lesson. For example, making up word problems based on your child and his interests.
*Using educational games.
*Taking a P.D. (Particularly Daffy) day, explained in detail in the book.
*Doing a workshop day in which the whole day surrounds a certain topic.
*Having characters (played by mom) visit during lessons...there are some fun ideas for this in the book!
Anyways, I am hoping to add some life to our school days for these next two months before we take a break. I will be referring to this book often to get my ideas!

Zach's Composition on His Great Grandpa

For Zach's writing this year he is composing stories about several of his relatives. Here is his latest about his Great Grandpa Humphrey.

My Great Grandpa Humphrey was born May 21st 1922. His name was Clarence E. Humphrey. He was born in Owanka, SD and died on Aug.12th 1998. When he was about ten, he experienced the dirty thirties. On his farm they used a horse and a plow instead of a tractor, because they didn’t have one. Although I do not remember him, we have a video of him and he resembles my Grandpa Humphrey, his son.

One time on the ranch the family had caught a “gobbler” (turkey) and was bringing it home in their brand new shining Model T. Clarence’s mom looked at the gobbler to see if it was okay. When she took her eyes off the road, the truck hit a pothole and the cage went flying. It broke. Needless to say, the turkey escaped. It took them and some neighbors to catch him.

Clarence Humphrey was a person that liked to talk. He had what he called a gift to gab. He always would tell the same stories over and over again like his story about how he would swim like a rock and about stealing some watermelons and riding away on horseback. One time he was out at the “crick” and he had a cowbell. The dinger part was in his pocket, and the bell part was on his saddle. There were Sioux Indians at the creek and they kept requesting, “Me bell! Me bell!” He gave them the bell part but forgot the dinger part. The Indians received a silent bell! He enjoyed interacting with other people through stories and conversation.

Great Grandpa at age 3.

Great Grandpa on "Black Mountain", the pony he bought for his grandkids to ride.

Reading Lists for 2009-2010

Here are the reading lists for the boys for next year. We will be doing Ancient history and zoology so their readers will loosely follow those themes. The letters at the end of each book mean the following: L-located at the library, H-at home, O-order this book. These lists will be linked on my sidebar.

Zach
Early Ancients
The Sumerians L
The Revenge of Ishtar H
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh H
The Babylonians L
The Assyrians L
Egypt
Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt H
Shadow Hawk H
Tirzah H
Israel
Victory on the Walls H
Ancient Greece
D'Aulaires Greek Myths H
The Children's Homer or Theras and His Town H
Detectives in Togas H
The Golden Fleece H
Ancient Rome
Vinegar Boy H
Ides of April H
Beyond the Desert Gate H
Mystery of the Roman Ransom L
Cleopatra H
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine H
The White Isle O
Animal Stories
The Jungle Book: The Mowgli stories L
Little Britches H
Rascal H
There's an Owl in the Shower L
My Side of the Mountain series L

Noah
Ancient History
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh H
The Revenge of Ishtar H
Tut's Mummy, Lost and Found H
You Wouldn't Want to be an Egyptian Mummy H
Dance, Sing and Remember L
You wouldn't want to be an Assyrian Soldier H
The Aesop for Children H
The Trojan Horse H
Usborne Greek Myths H
Cleopatra H
Great Wall of China H
Grain of Rice L
Long is a Dragon L
Zoology
Benny's animals and How He Put Them in Order L
Warton and Morton L
Bears on Hemlock Mountain H
Ralph S. Mouse L
The Littles L
Tornado H
Shadrach L
Misc.
Third Grade Detectives series
Emily's Runaway Imagination H

Zoology-Science for 2009-2010

Spring is the time I plan for what we will be doing next year. I will be typing up my plans and creating links for them in the sidebar. For science I work off a rotation between the following subjects: one year we do chemistry, the next physics, the next biology. The coming school year we are scheduled to do biology, but I thought I would narrow it down a bit to zoology. We will be using several sources for our year in zoology....Lyrical Life Science Volume 1-We will use only the first part of this book.

Lyrical Life Science-Volume 2A few lapbooks from In the Hands of a Child: Animal Classification, Invertebrates, Ecosystems, one of the habitat lapbooksAnimal lapbooks from Homeschool Share. This is where we will get the majority of our lapbook materials. All free!!!!

Zoology Schedule

LLS-Lyrical Life Science unit: includes song, reading, and worksheet

HOAC-Hands of a Child lapbook

HSS-Homeschool Share lapbook

Week 1: LLS: All Living Things, Animal Cell Jello Model

Week 2: HOAC: Animal Classification lapbook

Weeks 3 and 4: LLS: Invertebrates, HOAC: Invertebrates Lapbook

Week 5: LLS: Cold-blooded vertebrates, Glow in the Dark Fish activity

Week 6: LLS: Birds, Pick a bird, draw and write about it.

Weeks 7, 8, and 9: LLS: Mammals, LLS: Marsupials and Monotremes, HSS lapbook: choose platypus or marsupials

Weeks 10 and 11: LLS: Carnivores and Pinnipeds, HSS lapbook: choose tigers, wild dogs, wolf, meerkats, panda, cheetah, bears, or raccoon

Weeks 12 and 13: LLS: Hoofed Mammals, HSS lapbook: choose pigs, camels, zebras, giraffe, rhino

Weeks 14 and 15: LLS: Primates, HSS lapbook: Monkeys

Weeks 16 and 17: LLS: Rodents, Read Capyboppy

Week 18: LLS: Rodent-like Mammals, Draw and Write about an animal in this category.

Weeks 19 and 20: LLS: Bats, HSS lapbook pieces from Stellaluna unit or HOAC bats lapbook

Week 21 and 22: LLS: Insectivores, HSS Hedgehog lapbook

Week 23: LLS: Toothless Mammals, HSS Sloth lapbook

Weeks 24 and 25: LLS: Whales, HSS lapbook: choose whales or dolphins

Weeks 26 and 27: LLS: Sirenians, HSS Manatee lapbook

Week 28: LLS: Single Family Orders, Draw and Write about an animal in this category

Weeks 29, 30, and 31: LLS: Biomes, HOAC lapbook: deserts, forest, grasslands, mountains, oceans, polar, or rainforests

Weeks 32, 33, 34: LLS: Ecology, HOAC Ecosystems lapbook

Weeks 35 and 36: Extra weeks to complete tasks

Homework E-book by TOS (The Old Schoolhouse)

I recently downloaded an e-book from The Old Schoolhouse store called Homework: Juggling Home, Work, and School Without Losing Your Balance which costs $12.45. The description given on their website accurately details the contents of the e-book. Here is a portion of the description….

Are you looking to creatively supplement your family's income? Would a home business even work for your homeschooling family?Whether you are. . .

*Considering a new home business endeavor, or already working from home
*Seeking creative ideas, or exploring opportunities that might work for you
*Wondering how to set up a home business
*In need of some inspiration, encouragement, motivation or advice from experienced home'preneurs who've been there
*Wondering how others manage homeschooling and homework and continue to smile
. . . this E-Book, HomeWork: Juggling Home, Work, and School Without Losing Your Balance contains the information and support you are looking for!

I do work from home and have my own business. I am a certified high school Spanish teacher and have been giving Spanish lessons in my home to homeschoolers and private school children for years. This e-book was helpful to me because there are many times I get discouraged with having to juggle it all. There are days in which I wish I could just homeschool and manage our home and leave it at that. But reading all the experiences in this book gave me new hope and reassurance that I can manage both. I love reading about how other homeschooling families set up their schedules and how they blend their schooling with the business that they run. Many of them said that organization is the key, and I would have to completely agree! If I didn’t keep myself highly organized, then it would all fall apart.

The first three sections of the book are stories of homeschooling families and their home businesses. Many types of businesses are highlighted: computer work, creation of curriculum for homeschoolers, a sewing business, retail businesses, etc. The next two sections give practical information on how to run a business, for example, how to keep your financial records in order, how to prioritize your day, how to declutter your life so things will run smoother.

I gleaned a tremendous amount of information out of this book. If you are looking at possibly working at home and homeschooling at the same time, this books is for you! You can order the book here.

WeE-Books from The Old Schoolhouse

I would like to tell you about this great online resource from The Old Schoolhouse, WeE-books. WeE-books are downloadable mini-books (like magazine articles) from TOS website. They are affordable, costing about $1.95 per book. The three books that I downloaded were Homeschooling the Rebel Part I, Homeschooling the Rebel Part II, and A Light Unto My Path. The first two e-books were meant for me! I have a rebel in our house and homeschooling him has been a challenge since day one. I am always looking for ways to better my relationship with him and make our daily routine go smoother. In these two articles, Deborah Wuehler describes the doubts and fears of parents who live with a rebel, how to recognize the “triggers” that set off a rebel, and how to homeschool a child who falls into this category. As I was reading Deborah’s descriptions of how a rebel functions, I felt as if she were writing about our family and our challenges! She describes a rebel as a child who “tends to be extremely intelligent and to push the boundaries wherever possible, employing manipulative strategies.” This describes my rebel to a “T”! Deborah gives awesome advice on ways to respond to a child who tends to rebel. Some of her ideas include showing forgiveness to the child, seeking areas to praise the child, and being consistent in discipline. She gives many more ideas…these articles are not to be missed if you are struggling with a rebel! You can purchase them here.
The other e-book that I purchased was A Light Unto My Path. This short article describes how “light” is an important concept in the Bible. The articles lists several (over 10) verses that you can study that deal with light. Donna Rees, the author, also listed resources for further study and there are printable copywork pages for your students. There are about 13 verses neatly printed out for you child to copy with space underneath to do the copying! What a great resource to add to your homeschooling day if you want to study what God’s Word says about light! You can order it here.

Spanish Lapbook will be available....

very soon!!!! Just got word last night that it will be up on Homeschool Share in the next few days! I will post when it is officially on their site. Remember that this isn't just a lapbook, but there are mini lessons to go with each topic. I have been using this with my sons as a review and they are really enjoying it! See a picture here of Tim working with Noah on the lapbook. I am hoping that it will bless a lot of other families!

His Mercy Is New Giveaway!

Candace, over at His Mercy is New, is having a great giveaway of homeschool materials. Here are some of the materials that you could win if you enter her contest.
*Rocket Phonics
*Heads Up Frames
*Critical Thinking-Building Thinking Skills book
*Math Tutor for Algebra one
*Zone Cleaning charts
*Spears Art curriculum
So check out her site for all the details!!!!

More St. Patrick's Day Visitors

These visitors aren't quite as small as the leprechauns that visited last night (See previous post)! These are pictures of the mama moose...I wasn't able to get a good photo of the baby. They were right on the street in front of our house.

A Visitor in the Night?

Who could it have been?

Dad Helps with School

Tim stayed home yesterday to try to recuperate from his accident. So he helped with school. Here he is working with Noah on the Spanish lapbook.

Ice Art and an Accident

Every March we go see the World Ice Art Championship that is held here. Sculptors from all over the world (China, Japan, France, Romania, Mongolia, Russia, etc.) come to Fairbanks to enter the competition. I love looking at the detail that can be put in ice. There are abstract and realistic sculptures. Although I have to admit that I am not fond of the abstracts as much as the realistic ones. Here are a few of the sculptures we saw and you can see more of them...just click on the above link. Continue reading at the bottom of the post to hear about Tim's accident there. Alaskan animals in a band.

King Kong

Sea Turtles

Sarah Palin in ice (minus the lipstick!)

This year is Alaska's 50th birthday....50 years of statehood!

After viewing all the ice art Tim wanted to take the kids down the ice slides that are there. I personally never go down them because they scare me! Well, the first time Tim went down he flipped and landed on his face. I realized that something was very wrong when I saw blood pouring from his face. He immediately wanted me to take him home, but when he got up and took off his glove we realized that something was very wrong with his pinky finger. It was going all crooked...going in all the wrong directions. I rushed him to First Care and they cleaned up his face and x-rayed the finger, but then told him that he would have to go to the emergency room. His finger was dislocated and needed to be put back in place. We then went to the ER and waited for him for a long time, but he eventually came out with his finger in a splint that he will need to wear for awhile. He is ok, but we were all a little traumatized by it. He is self conscious about all the scrapes and bruises on his face, but they will heal and he is very lucky that he didn't need any stitches. He thinks he looks horrible, but quite frankly, I don't think it is that bad. But he has taken to calling the two of us, The Beauty and the Beast just because he feels like he looks hideous. Truth be told, the dislocated finger was far freakier looking to me than his face! Thank God, he is ok!!!!!!!!

Garden Plans

So we are still two months away from gardening season here. We normally can't plant until sometime in mid-May for seeds and then after Memorial Day for plants. But the sun is shining here and it is beautiful out and when I went to the grocery store today I saw that their seeds are out. Here is what I am planning to grow this year.

Wild Alaskan Strawberries-These have already wintered over in the garden. Hopefully the will come back. They are hardy so it shouldn't be a problem. Wild strawberries are much smaller, but they can also be much sweeter than the ones you get in the store. I am going to have to watch them closely though as they will take over the garden if I am not careful!

Lettuce and Spinach-I always grow lettuce in the summer...too much lettuce that I have to give it away! It grows like a weed here. I am going to try spinach this year for the first time.

Peas and Beans-Peas grow real well here. Beans are another issue. I have to grow them under black plastic. I basically mound my rows and lay black plastic down. I then cut X's in the plastic and put a seed in the dirt under each hole in the plastic. The beans grow up through the holes and the plastic warms the soil enough for the beans to produce. This year I am doing a variety that is purple (easier to see them this way...to find them and pick them), but they turn green when cooked.Carrots-We love carrots here!!! Alaska is great place to grow carrots. I can't stand the carrots in the grocery stores because they tend to be bitter. So I can't wait every year until our carrots are ready to be harvested!!! I am going to grow Scarlet Nantes (which I have grown every year since I first started gardening in 2001), a rainbow blend of carrots (we did these last year and they turned out great!), and a new type of carrot, Parisian Market, which grow like balls instead of the normal stick-like shape. I am hoping to put the Parisian Market carrots in containers to save on space in my garden.Cilantro (and maybe a few more herbs) and beets-I love cilantro so we are going to try to grow it this year since I learned how to freeze herbs for future use. I might try basil, too. In the past few years I have also done beets. I wasn't really fond of beets, but Tim loves them. I have come to enjoy them (fresh...never canned). We are going to try this variety this year...more cylindrical than regular beets.I am going to attempt to plant bell pepper plants again this year in containers. They didn't do well last year because we had a cold growing season, but I am hoping for better results. I will also do maybe two zucchini plants in very large containers. I am so excited! Now if the snow would just melt so that we can get started!

Magic Mix

I recently found a great recipe called Magic Mix from the Everyday Food Storage blog. You mix this up and store it in your fridge. It makes a great white sauce, cream of...soups, and pudding. I have done mixes before that you can store to make your own white sauce or cream soups, but honestly they don't work! I have made alfredo sauce, soup (a creamy veggie soup) and chocolate pudding with the Magic Mix and it has worked everytime!

Here is the recipe for Magic Mix:
2 1/3 cup powdered milk
1 cup all purpose flour
2 sticks butter at room temp.

I blend this in the Kitchen Aid with the wire whisk attachment. Should resemble cornmeal when it is completely mixed. Store in the fridge.

Here are some recipes to use the Magic Mix with...

White Sauce
2/3 cup Magic Mix
1 cup water

Mix the two ingredients in a saucepan. Stir with a wire whisk and put on medium heat on the stove. Stir constantly. Cook til bubbly and thick. I tend to double this and then add parmesan cheese for alfredo sauce.

Condensed Cream Soups (cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, etc.)
1 cup Magic Mix
3/4 cup liquid (you could use water, chicken broth, liquid from can of mushrooms)

Mix the two ingredients in a saucepan. Stir with a wire whisk and put on mediaum heat. Stir constantly until thick and bubbly. This will make the equivalent of one can of soup.

Magic Pudding
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups Magic Mix
2 cups water
1 tsp vanilla (Optional)

Combine in a saucepan: Magic Mix, water, and sugar . Stir over medium heat until pudding bubbles. Add vanilla and beat. Cover and cool. FOR CHOCOLATE PUDDING: Combine 3 TBS cocoa with the sugar and follow the original steps. Makes 2 cups pudding or 4 1/2 cup servings.

Atelier Art

Some of the gals on Homeschool Share were asking about Atelier art. I decided to post a few pictures to show what we have done this year. We only do Atelier art once a week with another family. This is really the way to go since the program is a bit on the expensive side so you can share the cost. Besides, for us, it is a great way to build relationships between the kids and the moms. We use it as a social outlet. We always tell the kids they get a bit of playtime afterwards. Atelier is great because it teaches theory (color theory, perspective, overlapping, etc.), different media, and artist/picture study. We did one level (level 3) this year all three modules, and we are currently starting level 4. But I really think that one level a year is a good pace. We love Atelier because it is clear in its instructions, has supply lists for each lesson, and it is a DVD program in which the creator of Atelier teaches the lessons and then show a classroom of kids doing the art project for that lesson. Showing off other kids work is a great way to get ideas and to show kids that we are all on different levels when it comes to art ability. This year with Atelier has been great enrichment for my boys...they have learned so much...color theory, perspective, depth, mood, etc. in paintings, and about artists such as Matisse, Van Gogh, Picasso, and several lesser known artists (there are 8x10 prints of the artists' works with discussion questions for each print).
Above, is a work done in clay depicting our family.A koala done in chalks.This was a lesson in overlapping, basic shapes, and bright colors.Paper tearing...a farm scene.My son had to mix all the colors in order to paint this scene of a scarecrow in a field. In the process, he learned about primary, secondary, tertiary colors...warm and cool colors, complementary colors.

Awesome Bread!

I normally use fresh milled whole wheat flour to make bread, but at times we like to have the artisan-type bread which includes white flour (nice crunchy crust on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside). Well, a couple of months ago I found this book at my library...Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day.
It may sound like a hoax, but this is for real! The basic idea is that you mix the dough and let it rise at room temperature. You then put the dough in the fridge. Whenever you want to bake bread, you take out some of the dough, shape and let rise. Then put it in the oven. The "five minutes a day" is in reference to how much hands-on time there is on baking day....and they are right that it amounts to about five minutes. However, there is rising and cooking time which comes to about an hour and a half. I love the fact that I can have dough in the fridge and pull it out and use it any time! This dough is very wet and needs to be to work right, but I have found that even when it is wet because it is cold from the fridge it isn't hard to work with. Here is a picture of a newly formed loaf before rising:
Here is the risen dough that has just been slashed and is ready for the oven:Here is the final product! So yummy! And yes, this came from my oven and not the store!

Homeschool Share-My Favorite Freebies!

Homeschool Share (HSS) is the best resource out there for free unit studies, lapbooks, and other homeschooling resources. I was introduced to HSS over a year ago by hearing about it through the Five in a Row boards. The basic concept of HSS is that homeschooling moms create units, lapbooks, notebooking pages, and other resources to share and they are posted on the site. Our family has greatly benefited from the resources available there. Many of the units are based on the Five in a Row concept of reading a book for five days and doing learning activities related to the book. There are different levels of units from preschool up to the age of 12. HSS also has an amazing amount of printables especially lapbooking components and notebooking pages. We have done several lapbooks...some related to a book we are rowing and some related to animal studies. Next year we plan to do zoology for science. Our goal is to use Lyrical Life Science as a spine and the animal lapbooks from HSS for further in-depth study.Here are just some of the freebies available at Homeschool Share:Multi-Book Theme UnitsNotebooking PagesFive in a Row resourcesLapbooking TemplatesFree LapbooksI am totally amazed at what these homeschooling moms create! The units are wonderful (thoughtfully put together with lots of great topics to learn about)...the lapbooking components are easy to work with and look professionally done! My boys love the clipart that goes along with the lapbooks. This group of ladies is truly talented and creative!

Our Kimonos

We made these kimonos using the instructions on Art Projects for Kids. This week we are rowing Grass Sandals, so I thought kimonos would fit the theme since the book is set in Japan. In the instructions it said to use oil pastels...we did it a bit differently. We used oil pastels for the designs and then painted the whole kimono with watercolors. The watercolor won't stick to the oil pastels so we didn't have to be careful to go around the designs with the paints. You will notice that one of my sons did a rather unique design on his kimono...yes, that is a chicken kimono!

My KimonoThe Boys' Kimonos

Grass Sandals

Today we started rowing Grass Sandals which is a book in volume four of the Five in a Row curriculum. We did a little on Japan today and also on bananas. We are currently reading The Biography of Bananas, which is one in a series of books from Crabtree books. I recently order Study Starters, which are basically notebooking pages for different subjects. We did the plant page today in which Noah drew a banana plant and its flower and fruit and then wrote some description about the plant.

TaeKwon-Do Tournament

The boys participated in a TaeKwon-do tournament this past Saturday. Here are a few pictures.