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the prairie family chronicles blogging about the life of a homeschooling adoptive family home about the prairie family chronicles looking for hope the prairie family chronicles blogging about the life of a homeschooling adoptive family feeds posts comments annie costumes april 3 2016 by colbylobrien well i think we are getting pretty close to having our costumes for annie there are a lot of them i keep saying that once we start taking these to practices we will look like we are moving in to the college which we practically will be for the next couple of weeks everyone has more than one costume this year so that has made things interesting our local thrift store has been very gracious about letting us try things and donating items for the show so that has been a blessing here is a slideshow of the prairie family s annie costumes posted in music leave a comment ongoing annie rehearsals april 3 2016 by colbylobrien posted in music leave a comment cosette s 9th grade science project april 3 2016 by colbylobrien this year cosette had a very interesting science project that ended up much differently than we had originally planned she wanted to do an investigation that tested the rotations per minute of a toy helicopter s blades under a variety of conditions so we got the helicopter researched ways to measure rpm and started trying to gather data we quickly discovered that all of this was easier said than done first of all the helicopter was pretty hard to control in addition to that measuring rpm on a moving object can be tricky we were almost ready to give up when i saw a friend of mine post some information about his drone he graciously offered to fly his drone if that would help with the project so we tried it out experimented with the right kind of tachometer to measure the blades rpm and got the investigation re worked we didn t completely abandon the helicopter we thought of ways to adapt her original project that would be more practical in real life and gathered data under a variety of conditions with that as well so probably the most important lesson we learned from this project was to thoroughly test an idea before investing a lot of time into a project that may or may not work once we were finally able to collect the data for cosette s project her board and reports came together quite well i will include a video of her presentation and a slideshow about her project with this entry posted in abeka academy science projects video clips leave a comment spring break annie rehearsals march 19 2016 by colbylobrien posted in music leave a comment early annie rehearsals march 19 2016 by colbylobrien the 2016 annie cast has gotten a good start on rehearsals for the april production the last several weeks have been spent learning songs reading lines and blocking scenes soon after returning to rehearsals after spring break we will be ready to begin running whole acts even on the stage then the real fun starts so now it is crunch time time to get the songs and lines memorized costumes prepared scenery and props gathered and a million other little details to check off as the show gets closer our days will be very busy but i know we will be building memories that will last a lifetime posted in music leave a comment united states army field band march 19 2016 by colbylobrien our community was very blessed over spring break to have the united states army field band perform at our local high school auditorium any time a group like this comes through our family makes our best effort to attend because they always have amazing programs this particular performance was really special however because the concert band and soldiers chorus invited local students to join them in performing one song when we were asked to consider doing this we were very excited so we downloaded the sheet music that the group provided practiced the song and waited for the special day we never know exactly how something like this is going to go but i felt pretty sure that being part of the us military this one would be handled very professionally and it was before the concert a member of the choir came and explained to the kids exactly what would be happening and what they would need to do there weren t any rehearsals but i felt pretty confident that this would work out all right so we enjoyed the concert the band and chorus performed a variety of pieces we especially liked a band song entitled el camino real by alfred reed the kids really enjoyed it when the chorus presented several songs from musicals including tradition from fiddler on the roof boy did that bring back some fun memories from the musical a couple of years ago this concert was a special treat for kara who loves all things military she was enraptured throughout the concert especially when a featured soloist played a trombone piece she recently began taking lessons on the trombone herself and loves it the kids sang their song with the chorus and of course that was pretty neat they all came back to their seats with big smiles the army field band treated my kids like royalty several times throughout the evening they d come ask them how they were enjoying the performance what songs they liked etc at the end of the show they brought each of them and me too a personalized dog tag as a thank you for participating it really was a great experience one that i know they will always remember posted in family music leave a comment easter cantata march 18 2016 by colbylobrien i love easter it puts the price my savior paid for my salvation front and center and reminds me of his victory over sin and death for years i have talked about doing something special to honor this great day i ve thought about how much time and preparations are put into celebrating christmas and yet in my own life somehow easter often goes by with little more than a few special songs sung at church maybe it s because easter falls at a busy time of year i don t know but i decided that this year would be different so right after christmas i began to think about what to do that would really make easter special at first i thought about doing something with the kids of our church but right when i was thinking about these things i had two or three adults approach me about the idea of doing something for everyone so i decided to give it a try and i am so glad that i did we decided to do russell mauldin s easter musical it is finished this collection of songs with narrations is pretty simple to put together and i thought it would be a good place to start the songs are great and the story ties everything together well we started rehearsals early in the year and people have been very faithful to come to practice the thing that has made this a very special experience is that the members of the group truly love the lord and there have been many special moments of worship as we have worked our way through this program i think the most precious thing is to see the children sing from their hearts sometimes even with tears as they sing praise to our lord it has been amazing so since this weekend is palm sunday this will be our last week of rehearsal before our performance on easter sunday march 27 during our regular worship service at 10 45 i can t wait this special resurrection day will be one to always remember posted in christianity holidays music 1 comment spring break march 18 2016 by colbylobrien this has been a pretty common scene in our house this week having john home from ksu is always a lot of fun my kids are truly best friends and i am thankful for that we are blessed posted in family leave a comment one more performance march 18 2016 by colbylobrien we are already getting close to finishing our first year with the homeschool choir we will be having our last performance in april and then will take a break for the summer and one of our members will be graduating that is exciting these kids have been great to work with they are always respectful and put forth their best effort they have done a great job putting together songs in our limited rehearsal schedule and i am very proud of them i hope they have enjoyed this as much as i have we talked a little bit about plans for next year and the kids have several things they d like to try some ideas tossed around were adding in instruments and maybe putting together a skit or two i think both of those ideas might work these kids have proven that they will reliably practice outside of our class time and that will help make those ideas a reality i am thankful for the opportunity to get to know these kids they have been a real blessing posted in homeschool music leave a comment luke s 8th grade science project jumping to conclusions march 18 2016 by colbylobrien as brock was completing his last a beka academy science project luke was working on his first in 7th grade the students plan a project but do not actually complete the experiment or make a display then in 8th grade the students go through the entire process to put together a finished science project luke s project is kind of hard to describe and it didn t work like we had planned so we had to make some modifications as we went along his investigation involved transferring static electricity to a leyden jar with various conditions and measuring the resulting discharge spark the first jar that luke built did not work that was our biggest obstacle it simply would not consistently discharge making the collection of data nearly impossible so after a few days of frustration we hunted for ideas on how to improve the jar s design to make it more reliable ultimately we completely scrapped the original design which required luke to rethink his tests hypotheses etc this was a good lesson to go through however and luke was very persistent in getting the project finished now we know that it is a pretty good idea to test a procedure out early in the planning stages of the project just to make sure everything works right sigh anyway 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