We have been home all stinking summer. One 4-day trip to LBL in May and one 3-day trip to Arkansas in June. We did not do anything in July or August and here it is halfway through September, well thirdway anyhow.
We are finally having a weekend away! Matt has a gig tonight, so we head out mid-morning tomorrow for Georgia! We are camping in a yurt! Then, Monday we are going to the Georgia Aquarium! I already have everything paid for including parking and lunch at the Aquarium. I will report back if it's a good deal to go that route.
I am already a little annoyed because while we can turn in our tickets toward an annual pass the day of our visit, if I had just bought them online-where they offer a 20% discount, which is $80 off for us-we could have saved that money and it would pay for itself in 2 visits. Grrrr.
Jake and I have been listening to the first of the Kingdom Keepers series in the van, it was NOT the best choice for an already Disney-crazed family! hehehe! Now we are gung ho about the Halloween Party...but it's another $300 for the 5 of us-that dampened our desires PDQ. That's 2 days in Universal! *sigh* I still looked on ebay for Mickey ears...
School went well today! We started 2 new things, research-based history and calculator math. I have never let them use calculators before, but the GED has a big section where they are okay to use, so I thought they might as well learn to use them and score extra well on that part! They are having so much more fun with the calculators that they asked me to print out extra sheets for them to work on during the drive tomorrow. Ack!
They are doing their research now. Today's questions are:
9-10
Who is Elias Howe and what did he do?
How long did the first single-day Chicago to New York airmail trip take?
What long-running TV show first aired on this date in 1955?
9-11
Who won the Battle of Brandywine (1777)?
Who was the first US Secretary of the Treasury?
What was the Beatles first single?
9-12
What happened at the Battle of Northpoint?
What happened on this date in 1944? (specifically WWII)
What year did the show Lassie debut?
I went to a 'this day in history' site to make up the questions, I figure if we did 3 questions for each day for a whole year, doubling up when we won't be home (in this case, tripling) then they would get a good mix of all kinds of historic events-important and otherwise.
Plus, research and writing practice is always good. This is not replacing our current history study, just extra. It took me about 10 minutes to look up all of the questions, so it's not an insane amount of extra busywork. We'll give it a go, see how it works out.
