Passports Around the World

We have joined two different homeschool groups since arriving in our new home.  One group is a "co-op" and offers weekly classes (I wrote about HERE).  The other group is a "support" group, and offers fieldtrip opportunities, moms' nights, field day, used-curriculum sales, etc.  (These are two separate and distinct groups, but there is a lot of overlap in the families between these two different groups.)

The awesome handwriting on these directional signs, courtesy of yours truly.  BLECH, my handwriting stinks!

The homeschool support group recently hosted an event entitled, "Passports Around the World."  It was fabulous!  Families signed up to host a country table, and offered information, food, music, etc. to children who visited around and had their passport stamped in each country.

Our family hosted a "China" table.  

An opportunity to practice the Chinese character for "love"

Here is a Chinese bible, a tea set purchased in China, and an opportunity to practice using jade chopsticks 

We also offered samples of Egg Drop Soup (it all got eaten up, and one Egg-drop-soup-lover said it was good!  phew!)

Noah is obsessed with Europe - England and Paris specifically - so he did his own table for England:

He passed out samples of "English Breakfast" tea

This event was fun from beginning to end.   The president of the group asked me to help with this event.  Which basically meant we had a couple of fun meetings (their kids included)...and did some work together.  Here we all are sitting around cutting out country stamps together:

And then the evening of the event was fun - learning new info while having fun with friends!

E with her buds, K and R, also adoptees

G and A caught several rides in this "tuk tuk".

To conclude the evening, everyone participated in Polka lessons!

My sweet friends Amy and Sherry...whom I am so very thankful for!

Abigail is NOT a wall flower...no way was she going to be excluded from the dancing!

My sweet friend Karen, who is just too cute.

Instead of Polka-ing, these kiddos snuck out to the room next door to get some foosball playing in with their buddies

While we were all snazzed up in some of the pretty clothes we purchased in China, I asked E to snap mine and Jason's picture.


He cooperated....

...for a bit...