Learn to Run
My older two have set some goals for themselves in terms of running. Heather would like to run a 10K this year and Graham a 5K (will be his first running experience). All the kiddos have asked to participate in a colour run. So I need to look into that. I injured my foot a couple of times last year and hadn't hit the track in quite some time. We started all over with a couch to 5K training app I have on my phone. It's a nice app and was free, you can even add music to it, if you like. :) We made it out a three times this week and although it challenged my son, he hung in there. My youngest (7 yrs) rode along side us on her bike, ran or walked depending on what she felt like doing at the time! It's been challenging to find the time but well worth the effort; lots of fun and memories made as we preserver together! There is a home school track and field meet held a few hours from our city that I plan on taking the kids to next year. They have all shown some interest in doing more activities like this. We'll take the year to research the various track and field sports so they can decide what they'd like to do. I'd like to start practising the sports with them throughout the year.
Book Club Books
We've been concentrating on our books for book club this past week. I run a junior division with 11 children; ages 6 - 11. And a friend of mine runs a Senior Book Club, which my eldest daughter attends. The junior book is called: A Wrinkle in Time & the Senior's are reading the classic: Little Women. My daughter is struggling to read Little Women, she finds it very slow paced, but she's hanging in there. It certainly isn't one of her favourites! The younger ones and I are throughly enjoying A Wrinkle in Time. I will be writing about our book club next month when I do a Book Club Monday post! :)
That's pretty much it for the week! Just keeping up with all the regular studies!
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| A little bit of picture fun at the park! |
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| Me and the kiddos! :D We are linked up with Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers Weekly Wrap! Have a look and share your own! |
That is great that your kids have set some running goals. That might be something to consider with my son.
ReplyDeleteI trained with my daughter a year and half ago to run in the Detroit 5K. We had so much fun training and race day was quite the accomplishment for us! :) When my son asked to do the same, I knew I couldn't refuse his request.
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ReplyDeleteI'm visiting from Weekly Wrapup. We are looking for a running program for our kids. To be honest I need to do it too. Thanks for the app. I didn't even know they had them.
ReplyDeleteYes! It's nice because it's free and I love that it tells us when to run and when to walk. :) When we started out a couple years back I didn't have a smart phone so we used this program: http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml I think they may have an app for smart phone too but I am not sure if it's free.
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