Our Week in Review (March 18-24)

We took the week off of school for Spring Break.  We had pretty weather every day but Wednesday so the children spent quite a bit of time outside.  We had a lot of stuff going on this week so we didn't get to do anything "special" for spring break but it was a nice break from school work.

Monday we started baking for our bake sale on Wednesday.

Tuesday we did more baking all day and then the boys had Trap Practice.  Over the course of those two days I made (with help) : 3 apple pies, Milky Way Cake, Peach Crumb Bars, Brownies with Peanut Butter Chips, Caramel Corn, Snickerdoodles, Oatmeal Raisin Coookies, Corn Bread, and Ooey Gooey Chocolate Chip Bars.

Wednesday morning Alex, Anthony, and Nicholas went and did a live interview about the upcoming International SeaPerch Competition on a local radio station.  Then later we had our Bake Sale to help pay for expenses for their trip.  We were at a local bank from 11-2 and then moved to a local grocery store from 2-5.  It was not a very nice day.  It got colder as the day went on and started raining in the afternoon (luckily we could move under an overhang outside the store and not get wet.)  But, it was a very successful bake sale!  We had a ton of stuff to sell and sold almost everything.  We had people just come by and give donations.  It was definitely worth the work we put in to the sale.  Every member of our club baked and came out and helped with the sale.  We will have a raffle coming up in a few weeks to raise money and a silent auction at our banquet next week.

Lily made our signs.  Lily and Emmie did not stay at the sale they went to play with Liam at Chelsea's house instead.

Thursday we had 4 H Entrepreneur Day Camp.  For this camp we learned about what being an entrepreneur is and goods and services children can provide.  For this camp we made and decorated sugar cookies with royal icing.  They named their business, "bought" all of their supplies, and made and decorated their own cookies.  We packaged and delivered some to local businesses that support 4 H and then got to take some home to eat.  They plan on doing more of these camps with different themes.

After it ended at 3 we cleaned up and stayed for a few hours to work on our SeaPerch.

Friday the girls had music lessons.  It was Emmie's first mandolin lesson.  She learned the C and G chords.

Saturday Christian and Alex had a Trap Shoot.  Alex shot 46/50 and Christian shot 15/25.  It was their team's fundraiser so we stayed the whole day and helped clean up when it was over.

The week went by too fast and now it's back to school.

I hope you had a great week!

Happy Homeschooling!