This weekend is the annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival. It is a pretty neat deal... with arts and craft shows that feature wool products, food tastings and cooking clinics (with local lamb, of course!), and a wonderful "sheep parade"... yes, they bring the sheep down Main Street in Ketchum, Idaho! You can check it all out at http://www.trailingofthesheep.org/.

 

I LOVE the flexibility that homeschooling offers. We are highlighting sheep literature and activities here starting today and through the weekend. "Sheep in a Jeep", by Nancy Shaw is a fun little book, "Baa Baa Black Sheep" from the Real Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes makes a great song and poem for narration. For bible, we can focus on Jesus leading his Flock. Today's craft was a little hand held sheep we can take to the parade with us... and most importantly, we get to go and learn about and see the sheep FIRST HAND. Learning through living is the ONLY way to go....

 

 

 

(Oh, and best of all? Today, we learned in our pajamas)