Anyone watch the TV show “The Amazing Race”? Groups travel around the globe, meeting physical or mental challenges. On each show, the last group to arrive at the designated destination is eliminated. Our homeschool group organized our own Amazing Race this past Friday. We had 9 groups of 4 kids each, and our “world” was a local park. We spread all the continents around the park, with a challenge to meet at each stop. Here, Abbey’s purple group is trying to match flags to their appropriate country.
Lots of fun trees to play in at this park…
The kids did a LOT of running from continent to continent!
In Asia, Abbey amazed everyone with her chopstick skills!
Lainey loved the playground…
let’s run some more…time to put the books of the bible in order.
Payton running with a friend…the race was only for 6th-12th graders. They were bummed.
She climbed up to this slide over and over and over and…
another challenge – pogo sticks!
Ethan conquered the dinosaur rocker!
I had to do it…is this not the cutest thing? Yep, she’s big girl pants all day, every day now. (well, except nap/bedtime.)
After the race, Abbey’s Jr. High pastor gave a fantastic devotion about the spiritual race we run.
Our of 9 teams, Abbey’s team placed 2nd. 5 SECONDS behind the 1st place team. :)
April 20th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Do I watch The Amazing Race? Of course! This looks so cool! What a fun way to learn.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Way to go Abbey. Looked like a lot of fun.
Love Nana
April 20th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Great teaching tools for the kids. And of course the pictures are wonderful, too. Way to go Abbey and team !!
Looks like Marley, Payton and Ethan were having as much fun just being at the “race.”
Lainey can still always bring a smile to my face whenever you post pictures of her. Love the “rear” shot with her grown-up pants.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Wow, 5 seconds….that’s close! Congrats Abbey & Purple Team!! Great way to get lots of exercise!
And we discover yet another color that Lainey Q. looks fantastic in…peach! Looks like a puppy on her “big girl pants”!
Looks like it was a fun day for all and nice weather too! Love, Granma & Granpa
April 20th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
What a cool day!! Looks like so much fun. I need to let my sister know all that you do. She is homeschooling her boys in NC. Not sure how big their homeschooling group is but she can sure investigate!!!
Yeah to Lainey for being in big girl pants all day. :-)
June 11th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Hey mom, its A. I can’t belive that Kaitlin’s and Chris’ team beat us! all well, @ least it was people I knew. It was fun. :)