Homeschool Chemistry

Blaze attended a chemistry class for homeschoolers this morning at Wakulla Springs State Park.



The mom who hosted the activity did a fantastic job of taking a subject that could have been confusing and presenting it in a simple way that children of all ages could understand. She also provided a fun hands-on activity for the children to do in small groups.







They learned about acids and bases, using red cabbage juice to test the PH of a variety of substances.













After the lesson, everyone, even the wildlife, took refuge from the heat (the heat index was over 100 degrees F. yet again today) in the spring water.

Mobile Again/Nature Journaling at Wakulla Springs

Thanks to a very generous gift from another homeschool family, we are mobile again. The previous owners of this car have just moved out of state and couldn't take the car with them.



Today we took advantage of our ability to drive places and went to the homeschool program at Wakulla Springs. The topic for today was "Nature Journaling".



Everyone took a walk in the woods and collected things from nature, that they could then draw and identify when they got back to the picnic shelter. A very extensive collection of books was provided for the children to look up the common and scientific names needed to label their drawings.







After the lesson, there was free time in the spring.

Learning About Fossils at Wakulla Springs

This morning, we went to the Tallahassee Homeschool Group's lesson about fossils at Wakulla Spring.















I really enjoy going to these programs! They are free to attend, are entertaining and educational, and they end with the children going swimming.

The First Day of Aquabilities Swimming Class

The World's Largest Swimming Lesson

This was the event we attended this morning:



The idea behind the event was to make people aware of how important swimming lesson are for children. It was free and the kids had a good time, I just wish more people had shown up.

The children were divided up by age for their lessons. Blaze was with this group of 10 and 11 year olds.





The local new was shooting footage of the children swimming, so we'll have to make a point of watching the channel 20 news tonight.



Here is the entire group together:



The Noah's Endeavor/Aquabilities swimmers and volunteers:







As the children were leaving the pool, they were each given a certificate of participation:



This was a great warm up for Aquabilities swimming lesson, which will be beginning soon.



Blaze is signed up for the first two week session, which begins June 25th, but there are two additional two week sessions after that.

Water Slide

Swimming lessons are at a different pool this year and the children had originally been told that the water slide would not be available to them at this pool, because the time was reserved for lessons only, not for play time.





Today was the last day of swimming for this week and the children did work hard, they even learned some very basic life saving skills, so the coach talked the pool managers into turning on the slide at the end of class.



It was fun just to watch how excited they all were over this unexpected treat!