School activities

We've had a lot going at school lately. On Tuesday we went to the Museum of Flight in Seattle. This was an awesome day! Lachlan LOVED it...I could hardly get him to focus on the educational part of it-he just wanted to check it all out! He loved seeing the Concorde, Air Force One and the 400 models of WWW I and II that they have displayed. All the kids really enjoyed the control tower where they could hear and see the planes landing and leaving Boeing Field! We had an hour program where the 1 and 2nd graders got to be young aviators-this was great too. Lachlan was WAY ahead of the other kids with making paper airplanes...wonder why...all that paper airplane creating at convention! We have such a great group of kids so that makes it really fun. Here are some pictures:

Beneath the Blackbird...WOW



My four charges-Keegan, Richard, Cooper and Lachlan
Concorde
Astronaut Lachlan

This week we also had Market Day. This is a real market and "Visions" money is used. It is so great. It is treated completely as a real market so they have to have business licenses, there are fines, taxes etc. Drew and I even worked so we could buy some things. Drew did banking and I did set up and clean up with the help of Cohen and Mack. Lachlan decided his business would be "Orcas Island Rock Works". My parents picked up the rocks from Orcas and he painted 10 rocks which were his rock paperweights, he made 10 rock people and he made 10 bags of what he named "Firerock Skippers" skipping rocks and everything was $10.00 each. The skipping rocks sold the best and he ended up making quite a bit of money for next Market Day which is in the spring! We've already got some ideas for that. It was so much fun to see what all the kids created! The older kids had loads of great items and made lots of money too. I could not believe the amount of people who came. A lot of kids who graduated from Visions took the day off school so they could come spend some of their past account (which if you graduated is still good), and teachers and family members too. What fun! It was a lot of work but well worth it and a great experience for the kids to learn how business and money, banking etc works.
Lachlan and one of his employees Cohen
Drew helping with banking
Lach and Haley manning their stores
lots of people shopping
Even the principal came and bought a rock