Sunday, August 11, 2013

August 3-11th 2013 Pictures

August 3-11th 2013  Pictures
I am sharing a little bit of INDIANA with you all with the pictures this week!  




Dd earned a new LOTR LEGO prize!



 INDIANA STATE FAIR


Dd and Dh at the Walt Disney Exhibit---very fun exhibit!  


 






Dd rode her first park ride ever---with me--the Ferris Wheel!




Our favorite part of the fair: The Pioneer Village
 


  














 Heather----is this who you did your Easter Egg's with this year???




We have to have some cow's and chicken's in our picture's ---we are in Indiana after all!






 



Our other favorite part of the fair is the HONEY place!  We get honey ice cream, and honey sticks.  This year we bought beeswax scented with lavender to put on our dry skin---heavenly!
 



I personally LOVE the 4H poster displays!  I always spend forever reading as many as I can!  My poor family had to wait for me!  I plan on doing some pressed flowers like this poster'er did.




















We had 2 Black Swallowtail Butterflies hatch this week---which was great!  These are the pictures from the first part of the week.  We did go to the Indiana State Fair; but those pictures aren't ready yet.  I'll download those in a little bit--check back later!



I released this butterfly---and it flew away; and then flew back into our yard!  I've never-ever had that happen!!!  And then SHE flew over to this Black-Eyed Susan flower and I took her picture!  It was really neat to see her return!




This is the chrysalis she hatched from.  We had a fennel next to our pea plants in the spring.  The momma butterfly laid her eggs on the fennel, and I watched the caterpillars for weeks, and then we brought in the chrysalis that was on the pea stalk and put it in our aquarium.  It only took about 2-3 weeks until she hatched.











Dd and Dh were invited to join GG and her dad right on the 2nd row to watch the Indianapolis Indians baseball team play!  How cool is that!  They had a great time out all together!  It was a Dad's and Daughter's night out!
 













A few weeks ago Dd and Dh went to a see the woman's basketball team here in Indiana--the FEVER play---here are a few pictures from that game too:


Dd and Dh had a really nice time at the game--and ate well!  Free tickets from Dh's vendor contact through work.








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Garden August 1st 2013

I'm falling behind on getting garden pictures into the blog this year--- half of the pictures I took didn't come out.  The camera didn't focus (and I didn't know) and the last half of the pictures were ALL fuzzy--but here are some that I took first that were okay, but they were my 'fun' photo's!  But, my veggie pictures didn't turn out.














There are a few bee's on this sunflower--can you see them?

There is a beetle on this sunflower---very cool!

Friday, August 9, 2013

Ancients---links and resources

 Ancients---links and resources
mostly from Chelle

http://www.last-in-line.info/search/label/Ancients%20during%202013


http://education-portal.com/academy/course/western-civilization-ancient-near-east-to-1648.html

http://www.last-in-line.info/2013/09/favourite-books-list-ancients.html

Greeks:


A wonderful collection of photographs of Greek Architecture.

Who Were the Greeks--from Chelle
Who were the Greeks. BBC.   youtube (can't guarantee all of the content in  this, as we haven't watched it yet :-)
Part 1
Part 2

Maps:
http://aurorak12.org/gateway/academics/Social%20Studies%20Dept.%20Pages/documents/ANCIENTGREECEPDF.pdf


I find lists are helpful, and not sure if you've browsed through these (ignore as needed)
http://forums.welltr...story-booklist/
http://amindinthelig...ancients_8.html



Romans:

 Roman Myths and Religion Free Web game:

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/roman-myths-and-religion.html