Lighting the Fire: LA COUNTY fair- that's right! we have farms too folks!

Our life in books

This is our eigth year of homeschooling and I finally got around to blogging about our adventures a few years ago.

I love the path that God has us on.

We get to enjoy the lightbulb moments in educating our children and have quite a few of them ourselves.

We are starting Exploration to 1850's this school year, 2012-2013 using My Father's World curriculum.

In the past, we have enjoyed the 'MFW Adventures' and 'Exploring Countries and Cultures', and 'Creation to the Greeks',

Rome to the Reformation,

Exploration to the 1850's and NOW.........

1850's to MODERN TIMES !!

Below is the week by week of lessons for this year if you'd like to start at the beginning.

There is also a handy LABELS area that you can peek through to find a specific lesson.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

You heard me, it's the LA County Fair. It's not all star sightings and high heels here folks. We have a fair and farm animals to prove it.

The BIG Red Barn is where all the baby animals are held.

Baby pigs clamoring for a drink and baby goats only a week old held the attention of my crew. Precious.

Here they are with their Nana and Papa.

Here little piggy!

These are the adorable kids (not mine)

Always a treat to get a cold draft on a hot,hot day.

Meanwhile, inside the Inventor's laboratory......... We had to learn something as we went on a school day after all!

Harper and Everett get to make electricity from wool sparks, like Benjamin Franklin.

Mackenzie flies the simulation of the Wright Bros airplane.

Everett builds a car on an assembly line like Henry Ford.

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