Homeschooling at Its Best

Last Monday was Presidents Day. Most schools in the area had the day off. But, since we homeschool, not us! However, we did decide to do something even better. Ski (Snowboard) School! Why not?!? We decided to take Little Farmer T and Little Farmer G to the mountain to try out snowboarding for the first time. On the way up to the mountain, we did take the opportunity to do a few extra spelling and math drills, but the main part of our day was Physical Education and learning a new (and fun) skill.

Little Farmer T has been asking (aka begging) since last winter to try snowboarding instead of skiing this year. And, as all good little brothers do, Little Farmer G wants to do everything his big brother does, so of course, he wants to snowboard too. They decided to take some of their Christmas money and big brother is taking a series of lessons and little brother got a Burton Riglet

to play around on. It's not the exact one in the link, just a different color. It's super cool because there is a reel on the front that you can use to pull them around. We even tried it out at home and the boys loved making us race them down the hall! 

While Little Farmer T was in his lesson, Mommy & Daddy took turns pulling Little Farmer G around so he could work on his balance. He did really well!

Little Farmer G trying out his Riglet!

Oops! Snowboarding definitely has a learning curve!

Little Farmer T spent his day attempting to master the magic carpet, learn to skate and be a falling leaf on the way down the slope. He did great with the magic carpet and skating.

See that cutie on the magic carpet in the red jacket? 

Just made it to the bottom of the hill with his instructor!

Gearing up for another go on the magic carpet!

By the end of the day, he realized that he was gonna need more practice, haha! Poor boy was wiped out at the end of the lesson...but nothing that a very special (and rare) treat of french fries and hot chocolate couldn't cure! When we asked him if he wanted to go again, we got a very enthusiastic "Sure! Just not today." Can't blame him...those first couple of days on the board are rough. Pretty sure he was happy that this was how we spent our school day, though!