Pirates Homeschool Too

We've been remiss in picture posting.  Bug dropped my little point and shoot camera. . . face down. . . on the tile floor.  The shutter won't open and close; the camera won't turn on.  It's kind of not a super sad thing.  Our old camera had no battery.  It's so old tracking down a replacement battery wasn't easy.  I'm thinking I can justify a new camera about now ;)  But that means I also need the time and patience to learn how to really use a good one, or I need my dad!  Camera woes aside, here's a brief recap of some of what we've been up to.  When I get the phone downloaded I'll post a few more.

Pirate wars.  A cruise down the intracoastal, some science and history and a lot of drama. :)  The good kind.

See the retreating pirate?  He was a good sport and soaking wet by the time the 'battle' was over.  Note: *when attending water battles a sword is pretty much useless.

Human body studies, amongst many other things.

Assembling brains.  It now adorns our bookshelf in the front room; along with alligator scutes, crawdad exoskeletons, snake skins, tree sap, rocks, and who knows what else.  I drew the line at dried out worms.  It's the 'science display and specimen' area for the kids; they drag all kinds of things in. 

Easter 'baskets'.  We've never really done baskets.  We often do paper mache eggs that the kids decorate and leave out for the bunny to fill.  Except on years when we don't get going a month in advance, then they resort to posterboard eggs. :)

Bunnies at the Fair.  So cute.  So hard not to come home with one.

They both got to participate in a fire safety demonstration, climb on some very old fire engines, pet the animals and have a back-lot tour of an amazing model train set-up.  Elephant show, pig races, old time village, military helicopters.  Fun day!  And free to boot.

An alligator scute.  These are the bony plates under an alligator's skin.  They provide protection and help with the cooling-heating.  Kinda cool.  Somebody at the fair gave it to the kids.