Month: April 2012

We rented a bounce house again and had a bunch of friends over for a pre-Easter celebration.

We had cotton candy, egg hunts and bouncing fun.

On Easter we got a lot of goodies in our baskets.

Thunder thought the bunnies were for him.

Very quickly we destroyed the living room.

I can’t wait to sink my teeth into the bunny!

We colored some eggs.

I even ate part of a hard boiled egg!

My bunny can’t hear!!!!

Our family egg hunt was massive since we had a lot of eggs left from the party.

Our lego team, Homeschool Lego Leopards, was hard at work the last few months doing research and building with out Legos. It all paid off at the Battle By the Bay Expo at the Glazer Museum. There were lots of prizes to win.

Everyone got a medal for participation.

We put together a nice display and a cool model. The theme this year was “Snack Attack”. We had to pick a snack food and research how the ingredients got to our tables and how it was kept safe along its voyage. We picked pizza and had a great time researching.

The build contains near full cycle of the food. From the farm, to the delivery truck to a refrigerator and finally to a sink to be washed.

At the expo I was more interested in the big robots that the small projects. I can’t wait until I can compete on the robotics teams.

Hanging with some friends watching the robots.

I even got to dive them!!!

Our team at the end of the expo. We won lots of awards. Please note the book in my hands. I was reading the entire time when I wasn’t watching the big robots!

GO TEAM HOMESCHOOL LEGO LEOPARDS!

Out biggest trophy. We won for “SMART Minds”.

Look at me! I got my yellow belt in karate. It has been a LOT of hard work and learning how to behave in class but I finally did it!

This month we can get into the aquarium for free so we went over and had a great day out. I learned a few new things about otters.

I helped show Emmerson all the plants and animals in the estuary area.

I was so proud of myself for being such a good big brother.

I kept trying to convince Mommy to walk across the glass over the shark cage. She would have nothing to do with it.

I liked watching the divers in the huge tank. I thought it was funny how they communicated with the crowd. They sounded a bit funny.

We checked out the leafy sea dragons (my favorite besides otters) and then played in the water park for a bit before calling it a day.

For my gifted class we had to do a project on an animal Lewis and Clark found along their journey. Most of the kids picked big animals like bears, mountain lions and buffalo. I picked the flounder. I had a blast doing the research at the library and then building my diorama. I get to turn it in to my teacher in May.