200 Days of Homeschool for That Family: Day 168--Helping Others

We got up at five this morning! We drove an hour and a half to put together some groceries for some people that don't have enough food. We didn't love getting up that early, but it was fun to do the work. We were at a food storehouse that our church owns. We worked in pairs, but since there are five of us I got to work with a fun girl and get to know her a little bit. She's planning on coming every Monday for a while.

We've all been pretty tired from it. I even fell asleep on the couch, which immediately gave me a headache. It's not too painful so hopefully it'll go away over night. But that never happens. My head is ridiculous.

The only thing academic we did today was read a couple chapters of A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park. We decided to read another one we know we like. We watched old episodes of My Favorite Martian too. We'll call that history and maybe science. Jeff's still on vacation this week, and we need to figure out something fun to do. I don't know that we'll try to go back to that gorge to get some pictures this week or not. It's kind of a long drive.

The other day, we practiced framing photographs. Here are some where we tried to make sure there was something interesting going on in certain parts of the frame. If you draw a tic tac toe board on the picture, you should have something at the intersections instead of centering everything.