Open House

As a homeschool family we don't get an opportunity to show off what we are learning very often, but this year we decided to put together an Open House with a couple other homeschool families, the Millers and the Sochas.  The kids all had a lot of fun displaying their talents to family and friends and the kids really enjoyed getting ready for their big night!

We began the evening with a Piano recital as five of our kids are taking piano lessons.  Alyssum was so excited to finally get to play in her first recital!  So our five plus three others played a couple songs each for the piano recital.

Then we had several memorized pieces to be shared.  The Millers did a fun "rap" rendition of Ecclesiastes 3..."A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot..."  Our kids shared their Bible memorization of Psalm 8..."O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth..."  We enjoy memorizing and putting motions to our words.  We have done several simpler texts this year so as to include the younger kids.

Lego Robotics demonstration came at the end and was done by Ethan, Tyler, Jayce, and Jacob.  The boys worked hard for many months this winter and even though they didn't get to go to the state competition, they still had a lot of fun and learned so much.  They each learned how to build a functioning robot and then programed the robot to accomplish various tasks.  Programming turned out to be much more challenging than anyone thought!  Like I said, we all learned a lot!! 

Part of the Open House was displaying craft projects from this year.  Ann Marie and Kailee got the opportunity to show off their quilts!  The quilts are not quite finished as they need to put the binding around the edge.  They have worked so hard on their masterpieces and the finished product is quite inspiring!