MFW Week Four (Hot Air Balloons)

Here are some snippits from our week:

On Monday we went on a Hiking Field Trip on Mount Rose.  It was Labor Day, so daddy went with us!

Can you see Lake Tahoe in the background?

We hiked 2.6 miles up to this waterfall, then back down 2.6 miles...

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Our memory verse is John 8:16.  Rose decorated this candle to help us think about the verse.

Rose has her Keepers At Home uniform on because we started Keepers Club this week.  :0)

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We studied different native American tribes this week.  The wigwam craft, daddy did with her one evening...

 

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This week one of the things we studied was the stars.  Out of all the many books that we read this week, this book really stood out:

Rose picked up the constellations fast and enjoys trying to find them out her window.  This book is going on our "to buy" list.  

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On Friday we went on another Hiking Field Trip.  This time it was with some homeschool friends at Galena Park.   We arrived at the trail head early so Rose could do some nature study and nature sketching.  It was a beautiful place!

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To celebrate a job well done in handwriting review our curriculum suggested eating Alphabet Soup for lunch.  Well, we do not normally eat canned foods, but this sounded fun. 

I guess our taste buds disagreed (they are used to homemade soups).  Neither one of us liked eating this canned soup.  It was gross.  Rose ended up eating a sandwich on some freshly homemade bread instead.

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We ended our week by getting up at 4:30 AM to go watch the Reno Hot Air Balloon Races.  It starts off with some balloons doing a pre dawn show.  It was beautiful and worth getting up for.
(Chad was with us too...he is taking the photos)

  

After that, we watched to the sunrise.  Then at about 7 or so, the balloons started to inflate.

 

And then we watched them fill the sky....

 

 

Very, very neat thing to see!