As many of you know we homeschool around here. There are many reasons why we started homeschooling so many years ago, ONE being that God just opened up the HOMEschool DOOR and shoved us right on in. Sometimes, I need a little push...lol
We continue to homeschool for some of the same reasons we had when we started, but have added a few other reasons along the way as well. One being, I just like being with my kids. Yes, we have moments when we get on each others nerves. There are times when I am TIRED of helping with school work and tired of School in general, usually the tired of it attitude sets in around this time of year, and I think all school goers deal with it(teachers, students, all involved). But all in all, I like being in control of curriculum, making sure its Christian based. etc...
Shek has been wanting to go on a field trip all year, and I finally put a field trip on the calendar about 6 weeks ago. He helped me check the calendar and we penciled it in. We went on the field trip last Friday and made a family affair out of it...the grands went, college boy went and both girls went too. Daddy missed out, he had to work.
Our long awaited field trip was to tour the Braves Stadium at Turner Field. Shek is a hands on learner and we have done a lot of unit studies over the years. My philosophy is if it's not fun and engaging, then we are not doing it. SO, we keep our sanity by doing unit studies. It engages us, we have fun, and we all learn something and retain it. He is really in to sports, and begged to do the baseball unit study by
Amanda Bennett. We've used many of her studies over the years.
He was excited and ready to do school each morning when baseball was the unit study. He
willing wrote letters to all of the ball teams requesting a fan pack. He usually hates writing anything, but he wrote so many letters that I ran out of stamps.
So to tie a ribbon around our last study of the year, we went to Turner field. There were lots of schools there last Friday as well. I thought we had chosen the wrong day to come, but, because we were a small family group of 7 we had our own little private tour. AND it was totally awesome. If you're ever in the Turner Field Area...take the tour, very worth it and fun.
Shek posing in the museum by Smoltz's jersey and such. Smoltz is one of my all time favs.
Jolie on the train...
Some more of my favorites...
With Hank Aaron
Posing with the mac-daddy award...
Need I say more...
These cannons blow at homeruns...
Mowed twice a day...
The Atlanta skyline from the top of the stadium with a glimpse of the old stadium's wall.
Fancy coke bottle all digital or something fancy like that...
Loved the quote.
I still love this photo of the Braves
Karlie and Pop wait for our tour to start while sitting in the museum dugout
Gam and I always have our cameras...just call us Mable Lane (family joke)...
Shek at the desk...he's such a sports commentator at home.
Painting the tomahawk...
Our great tour guide, Dave.
The Skip Carey Room
Yes this is our glimpse of the locker room...and those are Heyward's jeans hanging on the hook.
There was a security guard that would not let you go up in the room...you could only peer in at the door, but hey that's still pretty cool and close...
The hallway going toward the locker room.
Sitting in the duggout...how cool is that?
All of us in the dugout.
When we got home, Shek had received his very first fan pack in the mail from the Braves. He received a letter, a photo, a schedule, a sticker, and a pack of dirt that was scooped up on the day of Bobby Cox's last game as manager. That fan pack in the mail, was just icing on the cake for his special day. Isn't God so good to be in the details...like that...amazing!
Next time you're in Atlanta...stop at Turner Field and take a little tour.
