Day 32 out of 365 homeschool looks like this sometimes

Some days, homeschooling looks like this.

Road Trip For King and Country Because Sometimes Homeschooling Looks Like This - Day 31 of 365

Day 31 of Homeschool day 365 posts looks like this:

So, my daughter got her license on February 13, a day after she turned 16, which means she had a sweet 16 birthday! One of her big gifts that she opened were tickets to The Roadshow, a Christian music festival much like Winterjam.

The highway is not my thing, but my hubby couldn't drive this time since he had several gigs scheduled, so it turned into a mom and daughter road trip to Cape Girardeau, overnight.

Tickets are just $10 at the door, but I had purchased VIP tickets since I didn't want to drive that far for a chance of not getting in the doors.

I snagged an amazing hotel room for free using points from a hotel rewards group we belong to.

We checked into the hotel and headed across the parking lot to Olive Garden, feasted on their Never-ending deal and stashed to-go containers full of salad and extra entree to take back to the room for after the concert. Then, we headed back to the room to freshen up and head to the concert.

We only waited outside for about an hour before the VIP doors opened, and my daughter made a bee-line to the B stage where she knew For King and Country would come out onto part way into their show.

She had made miniature koalas that had the names of Luke Smallbone's two boys stitched on the little blue blanket the koala was holding. She crafted drums to look like their daddy Luke's drums, and she handed off the first two koalas at a previous concert to Luke. This time, Luke and his wife have welcomed baby Leo, so she made a koala for Leo. She wasn't able to give this one directly to Luke, but it did make it's way to the proper owner, apparently (see screenshot further down in blog with Joel holding the koala next to his face). Too cute!

Sometimes Homeschooling Looks Like This - Outdoor Winter Lessons

When the temps are in the mid 60s and it's January,  this is where we do school...

365 Days of Homeschooling Day 26, Day 27, Day 28 and Day 29

OK, I'm obviously way behind on my 365 days of homeschool in pictures - How homeschooling really looks in our home. But, I never said I was going to post every single day, just 365 days total. So, here is Day 26. Here is how real homeschooling looks sometimes.

Day 25 of 365 Days of Homeschooling FLL Lego League Robotics

Here we are at Day #25 out of 365 Days of Homeschooling, Some Days This is how homeschooling looks series. As you can probably figure if you've gotten beyond Kindergarten math - I am behind and will probably fill in the days by posting a few of our homeschool days at a time as I can.

So, here is Day 25 (not in any kind of particular order, as day 26 may actually be a flash back of what happened on another day). But, for the sake of this blog - here you go!

Robotics for the youngest...  This weekend was the FLL FIRST Lego League robotics competition qualifier. We ended up finishing 7th overall, but they did better than last year, their rookie year. This competition really puts the kids through a lot. There is the project board, where they have to come up with a project that relates to the challenge. This year the challenge was about water, and our project was about developing an app that would gather information about individual home water usage.

They also have a time of core values where the team has to build on-the-spot a solution to a problem and work together and then answer questions about core values of robotics - One of which I really like is called coopertition. It's where teams cooperate to help each other even though they are competitors.

Next, they have to discuss and show off the robot.

Finally, there are 3 matches where the robot competes for points as programmed.

The Legoes used are Mindstorm and are programmed using their software, which my daughter personally doesn't care for. She prefers working on the project board as the software is drag and drop flowchart style, and she prefers writing line for line when given the option.

Here are the pics: