week 1

Monday- We started on Labor day so Mike could do our first day of school with us.

We started the day with a treasure hunt.

 Sight words meet nerf gun.

Science, working on her junior ranger book.

Math in a tree

 Reading time

 Creating our own sand dunes

 lunch at the park

 Slushies to make it extra specail

Pizza lunch their favorite

Feeding the ducks

3D map

Tuesday 

 Science Tuesday at the public museum

Watching the clock

Caiden has discovered he loves to race the clock with math.  He finished this in 6 minutes.

Oil pastels

Maddy working on her Junior ranger book.  She's making a mobile here.

Wednesday

First Awana of the year.

 First science experiment of the year

Plum stone game.  Learning about Native Americans.

Blandford Nature center learning backpacks.

More Blandford fun

Blandford Nature Center play area

Thursday- The kids went to their Res life classes.  Caiden's doing Art and Cooking.  Maddy's doing Piano and Little House on the Prairie.  After class we went to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park.

 Enjoying some hiking trails while Mike set up camp.

 The weather was perfect but the flies were awful.

Maddy working on school in the car on the way.

Friday-

 The kids went fishing with Mike.

 Checking out the lake at the Piercing Scenic Drive

 Family pic

 3.5 mile dune hike

Bike riding.

 Showing the park ranger his junior ranger packet.

 Working on his packet at our camp site.

Ranger led program on birds.

Saturday-  

In the morning we went to Good Harbor and learned a little about the boats on the Great Lakes.

Playing at the beach before the storm

 Checking out the lake

 It rained all afternoon so we went into Traverse City and played at the Children's museum.

 Traverse City Children's Museum.

More museum fun.

 The rainy weather cleared up at night and gave us a spectacular sun set.

 We got out side every time there was a break in the rain.

Ranger led program on spiders.

Sunday

 The kids got to see the salmon swim from the Platte River into Lake Michigan by the 100's super cool!

The kids and I played at the beach while mike packed up.