Operation Christmas Child Packing Party 2014 at Arcadia Friends Communit...

Lunar Eclipse

We got up at 2:45 to watch the lunar eclipse... 

everyone in the family.  

We all stayed up about an hour.  

Aerial Arts Showcase during Eagle Rock Music Festival

Heritage Park, Sante Fe Springs

Field trip to see a life size Tongva home.  We are still working on our Native American badges and this has helped our perspective move from the pages in a book to real experience.  

Boogie Boarding Beach Beauties

Native American Badge

Hair styles - http://www.native-languages.org/hair.htm

Homes -
http://reesetipis.com/indian_dwellings.cfm
http://www.susankae.com/free_resources.htm

HONK! Jr.

First theater show... opening night... a smashing success! 

Thank you to everyone who came to see us!

A Day with "Old" friends

Where did these kids come from????

Nice photo bomb Maddie!

WiNKs

We got together with other kids from our church and went to a local nursing home to make a craft with the seniors living there.  The kids also sang a few of their VBS songs.  The seniors loved it.  Our kids were able to show God's love in a very simple and tangible way.

Happy Mother's Day!

Ann Jarvis was thrilled when President Wilson declraed Mother's Day a holiday in 1914 and wrote to Wilson to thank him, saying that the day would be “a great Home Day of our country for sons and daughters to honor their mothers and fathers and homes in a way that will perpetuate family ties and give emphasis to true home life.”

Aerial Arts Show

Second Annual Champ Fest

End of season show at Club Champion.  The girls did a great job!  

An Afternoon at the Museum

We spent the afternoon at the Norton Simon Museum enjoying the works of the some of the artists we have studied this year:  Rembrandt van Rijn, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Berthe Morisot, and then some!  Here is a sampling of the girls sketches.  

Alyssa draws Bissolo's Annunciation.

And Degas' Dancers in Pink.

 Hannah drew Verspronck's Portrait of a Lady.

And Degas' Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.

Dissection with Daddy

We got together with a group of friends to dissect various creatures.  There was four turtles, one fish, 

one frog and whole lot of frog eggs!