Mock Trial

Challenge B participated in Mock Trial April 21.  Ben was a lawyer for the prosecution.  They had both a prosecution and a defense team.  A Challenge B class from Fultondale came and competed against them.  They performed the same trial twice.  Once with our students as the prosecution and a second time with our students as the defense.  Our prosecution went first.

Random

The Knights finished their season with a winning record 5-4-1.  Their first couple of games were blowouts and I thought it was going to be a really long season.  It turned out much better than I expected and Ben ended up getting a lot more playing time than I thought he would as an eighth grader on a high school team.  In the bottom picture Ben is helping organize "evidence" for Mock Trial.

 

Faces of History

Mollie Grace's Essentials class ended the school year with Faces of History.  She researched the Greek goddess Artemis and wrote a five-paragraph essay.  For her presentation, she gave three facts about her person and the audience had to guess who she was.  Artemis was a huntress and did not wear a traditional Greek goddess costume.  Mollie Grace has a bow and arrows strapped across her chest.  Their theme was ancient history.

Easter

We spent a lot of time with friends Easter weekend.  Good Friday Ben's class (along with younger siblings) did an Easter-themed escape room and then went out for pizza.  Saturday morning Ben helped hide Easter eggs at church and then the younger kids hunted them.  They hid them inside because it was very wet from heavy rains in the night.  We had brunch with our neighbors and hunted eggs.  Zeke was Ben's egg hunting shadow.  The girls had chosen new dresses for Easter.  Annie's came with a matching doll dress.

Mid-April

April was a very busy month with Mollie Grace doing Faces of History and Memory Master and Ben's class (which I teach) doing Mock Trial.  Below are pictures of Mollie Grace trying on her Faces of History costume and Ben's class doing a dress rehearsal of Mock Trial the week before the real event.

Atlanta

 The kids and I left at 8 a.m. Friday and headed to Atlanta for the Charity Cup Homeschool Soccer tournament.  It was about a 3 1/2 hour drive.  We stopped at Buc-cee's in Birmingham.  We enjoyed getting to spread out in the new car.  Ben's first game was at 3.  We arrived at about 1 Eastern time.  They won their first game.  We checked into our hotel and then had supper with our friends the Dalumbas who moved to Atlanta at the same time that we moved.  It took us an hour and a half to get to their house because the traffic was so crazy.  It was great to see where they live now.  We've actually seen them several times since we both moved because we always schedule a trip to Southaven when they are visiting.  John left after work and got to Atlanta late Friday night.  It was freezing at the games.  We were wearing hats and gloves but needed long underwear!  We weren't prepared for it to be so cold in April.  It actually started sleeting during the game Saturday morning!  They also won their Saturday morning game and played in the championship game Saturday afternoon.  They lost the championship game to a team from Greenville, SC.  We were proud they finished so well after the bad start to the season.  They received medals for second place.  The pictures of Ben playing are all from the last game.  Ben is red #28.  The sun came out for that game and it was marginally warmer.

April Birthday Parties

April looks like it's going to be at least as busy as March.  We started with Ben's 14th birthday and both Ben and MG attending birthday parties.  Wednesday Ben's class sang happy birthday and dropped their pants.  Thankfully they were all wearing shorts or pants beneath.  I don't know what they were thinking but it was definitely coordinated.