Zip-a-dee-do-dah

"My oh my what a wonderful day."

I feel like I could dance around singing right now. I'm so happy.:D Today was a GREAT day!

We started off with Bible, all good. Moved on to math, all good. Did a mixture of reading and music practice, still all good. Did history, really good. But the highlight was our first ever formal:

Nature Study

It was a hit, hit, hit, HIT!
Here is Green Hour Challenge Assignment #4 where we're jumping in. We have chosen flowers, both wild and in the garden, as our focus. I'd thought each kid would want to do something else but it was a unanimous vote that flowers are the perfect thing for us. This is Morning Glory Academy.
So we set off for the park, flower spotting eyes on the ready. There were lots of nice flowers on the way but the kids wanted the park so we kept going, until we saw a beautiful cherry tree. Out came the nature journals and we plopped ourselves down on the side walk. :D
We were getting ready to go when a lovely old lady came out of the house. She said she'd been watching us draw and how glad she was that children were still interested in nature. She lets us take some petals to press and did a tree rubbing with us. She told us about her childhood in the woods in the times when people cared about nature and how it changed so that now many people are ignorant of the natural world. We learnt about the stages of a cherry tree and about her favourite flowers, morning glories being one. :D
Then we got caught in a down pour and all went inside for tea and cookies. The kids all turned their cups upside down and said that they'd really rather not have because they'd just been learning about the Boston Tea Party but hot chocolate sounded very good.
We will spend the rest of this week learning about cherry trees and when we got out next week our new friend will come too.

I've been in a happy mood all day and then I just found out that there is an offer on our house!:D It is condition that the bank will give this couple the money and that the house has no major problems but still, I'm happy!:D