Hunting for Fossils

Field trip time....we went to an area off of Rt. 100 north going towards Giles County for a fossil dig.
It was quite cold at 25* but we all had fun searching for fossils....and actually found quite a few.  Gabe Brame was our mentor.  Growing up with a father who teaches geology for a living, thus taught his children all the wonders of the earth provided us a great teacher for our day.

Hale's Happenings in November

Ryan helping at Connor's Eagle scout project.

 Ahhhh, Halloween is over and everyone is looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas.  We've been busy this month  with school projects.  Barry's still working hard on his Master's program with Liberty University.  Ryan's doing great at NRCC.  Every Monday and Wednesday he gets a ride with Br. McGrady into Christiansburg for his computer class.  He stays there till the afternoon when Aaron picks him up and brings him back to Pulaski.  On Wednesday he attends his game night at the GameQuest store in Radford.
Connor and Liam have earned another level in belts for Jujitsu.  Connor finished up the project portion of his Eagle scout project....now to complete the paperwork!
Cailin got the opportunity to work for the Hill's at a few more festivals--the Highlander Festival in Radford and the Newbern Festival (which Connor helped with too)  They certainly enjoy earning money.
Delaney, Liam & Brianne are all less than enthusiastic with Classical Conversations this year.  Brianne doesn't do well in the nursery,(there are so many littles that the crying noise gets to her), so when Ryan can stay home with her, he does.  I plan activities for them and it goes fairly well.
Although Liam and Delaney love their Foundations class time, Delaney is not all all happy with the writing and grammar class....so sad, just too bad!  She is learning.  I know this is the right path for this year,so I'm not worried....she's getting more than she realizes and will be fine.  Liam also dislikes the time in the afternoon.  I'm still not sure why, but he too will be fine.  We bring his large tub of legos and the nursery leaders let him and other big boys have fun creating with the legos while Delaney and I are busy learning about the eight parts of speech four sentence structures and purposes, and how to parse and diagram sentences.

Earning the orange belt.

Making rice crispy treats with Krystal

Having fun playing in the leaves after a day of history learning at the Mattson's.

SNOW!!!!!  The first snow of the 2014-2015 winter season!!

Ahhhh, cuddle time with Griffin.

Building with "super fun" blocks at the Pulaski Library.

A Harry Potter Halloween

 It was the month of August and these kids were already planning what they wanted to dress up as for Halloween 3 months away!

The Harry Potter bug hit many of these readers and so they wanted to dress up as a favorite character!  Even, us parents got to play in the fun!

Front row--  Hedwig (Brianne),  Doby the House Elf (Seth), Cho (Janet), Gabby De'lcure (Amber) Fleur Delcure (Delaney), Draco Malfoy (Liam)  2nd Row-- Harry Potter (Jared), Hermione Granger (Clarissa), Hogwats student (Beryl), Luna Lovegood (Cailin) Mrs. Weasly  (Vicki).  3rd row--Professor McGonagal, (Christine), Hogwarts student (Mikayla) Professor Trewlaney (Jen), Professor Snape (Chris).

We had so much fun one Saturday afternoon traipsing through a couple of Goodwill's or other thrift stores and costume shops looking for just the right piece of clothing for our character!

Such a cute Hedwig the Owl!

 

 

 

Roanoke's Science Museum

 Enjoying the marine touch tank.....along with all the other offerings at the Roanoke Science museum.  After looking at the Tutankhamen exhibit we check out all the other offerings of the museum.

 

Clarissa's green shirt worked beautifully on the green screen...she became the background for the weather screen.