World Turtle Day May 23

The purpose of World Turtle Day, May 23, sponsored yearly since 2000 by American Tortoise Rescue, is to bring attention to, and increase knowledge of and respect for, turtles and tortoises, and encourage human action to help them survive and thrive.^[1][2][3]
Turtle Day is celebrated worldwide in a variety of ways, from dressing up as turtles or wearing green summer dresses, to saving turtles caught on highways, to research activities.

To celebrate  we headed out to our local wildlife center to visit the turtles there!

Summer Session of Sensational Learning Fun Project 3

In Georgia we have access to a great resource called Discovery Education. This is a treasure trove of videos, lesson plans, images and more! All for FREE! We use this a lot in our home school lessons. One series of videos that we plan to use this summer is called Art Tango. Our first Art Tango lesson was a Giant Shoe drawing!  This is the description of the lesson:


Students will understand shape, color, and proportion after completing this lesson. The students will create their giant shoe drawing by drawing it twice as big on a piece of paper and filling it in with either warm or cool colors.


We talked about warm and cool colors and set to work!






Evamarie's drawing 

Emma's Drawing

My drawing (now you see why I love Art tango, I need lessons too!)

Sack Fine Art Gallery!  Location:  Door to School Room :)

Summer Session of Sensational Learning Fun Project Number Two Part Two

The second part of the Georgia State Parks Gopher Badge was to take a walk near home!  
It was a hot day but we headed on out anyway! Straight down the "dirt road" to Joey's pond!

Summer Session of Sensational Learning Fun Project # Two

Our second project for this summer is to work on the Junior Ranger Gopher Badge offered by Georgia State Parks You can read more about it here: http://www.getoutdoorsgeorgia.org/programs/index.asp?programId=1

Evamarie is the only child in the house that qualifies due to age but we are all getting into the act!

The first project on the list was to make trail mix:

CHECK!!!  Now only four more activities to go to earn the badge!

Sack Summer Session of Sensational Learning Fun Project One, Step One

Step one:  paint canvas!!

Sack Summer Session of Sensational Learning Fun Project One

We just wrapped up day 180 of our school year!  We are moving on to what I like to call the Sack Summer Session of Sensational Learning Fun!  This will be a time to get to those projects that I read about on various blogs and websites and never have the time to try with the kids!  

Our first project will be this:

 We have our canvas painted!  Updates to follow.

Junior Ranger Gopher Badge

We love State Parks!  We set a goal a few years ago to visit all of the Georgia State Parks as a family.  There is just something about the great outdoors! We love to geocache nnd lots of the parks now have caches placed in them.  It's really fun and gets the kids moving!  This up coming week we plan to work on a new badge that the parks dept. has come out with.  It's called the Junior Ranger Gopher Badge! You  choose from a list of 16 different badge requirements that will get you outdoors and help you learn about nature. You can download the booklet here or ask for it at your local GA state park office!  Wish us luck! 

Coupon for the Troops

Don't toss those expired coupons or the ones you wont use!! GIve them to a worthy cause: Coups For Troops: The Carolinas! They will go to military families that can use them within SIX months of expiration on base.  What are great way to support our heroes!  Your trash is their treasure!