Field Trip - Pt. Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

KNUJ Player of the year

It was a very big honor for NPS football and Dalton to be up for KNUJ player of the year.  Here are his stats....Dalton Elliott / SO / QB & LB  – 5’10” / 165 lbs.

2012 Conference Champs

2012 Section Runner Up

10-1 record

2012 All Conference

Career Record 19 wins – 3 losses

2 QB starts as freshmen – 2011

2012 Season Passing

175 comp. / 312 att. / 2,704 yards / 32 TD / 8 XP / 6 INT

2012 Season Rushing

195 carries / 876 yards / 7 TD / 1 XP

2012 Season Receiving:

1 catch / 12 yards

3,592 All Purpose Yards in 2012.

Career Passing:

240 comp. / 445 att. / 3,477 yards / 42 TD / 10 XP / 12 INT

Career Rushing: 

238 carries / 1,009 / 10 TD / 1 XP

Career All Purpose Yards: (13 starts at QB)

4,498 yards / Involved in 52 career TD

On pace to break all school career passing records. 

In round one of playoffs Dalton set a school record and tied a state single game record with 8 TD passes. His 471 yards in the same game was a school record and also top 10 all time in state history for a single game. Dalton is very composed for a sophomore and had one of the best single offensive seasons in school history. He has two more seasons to lead the Raider offense to more prolific moments.   

Field Trip to the Vicktory Gardens!

Fox Unit Study

It’s Fox Week here at Homeschooling in the Rose Garden!!

Today started out with a storybook study/nature study on the wild red fox.  I base it on this book by Shirley Woods:

This story is amazing!  In fact, I would highly recommend any of Shirley Woods naturalist series.  I have all of them and we will be spending most of our time going through these for our storybook and nature studies this year along with Trickle Creeks, Ecojournals.  If you enjoy nature study and Charlotte Mason these are the books to get!

We are pairing these two wonderful resources with a few Homeschool Share Lapbook materials.  I pick and choose what I use with this to what would help my children specifically.  Slowly, throughout the book, we can fill out different portions of the lapbook with answers.  For example, the first three chapters we covered several varieties of prey that foxes hunt, two different dens that foxes use and live in, and two different types of barks that foxes will use to warn young and mates.  This gave us information for a whole section of the Lapbook and we hadn’t even gotten half way through the book!

Fox Lapbook from Homeschool Share

Here are some videos we found very useful and fun for our Fox study:

Fox Sounds:

5 Wild Fox Kits Playing:

Aesop's Fables about teasing.  Aesop's Fable Lapbook (we only used the Fox and the Stork portion).

Aesop's Fables - The Fox and The Stork:

And the last one, just for fun, Foxes jumping on a back yard trampoline!

And that’s just for starters.

Elliott Boyz

Well it wasn't in the cards tonight to come out on top but really I was the big winner of the night.  I watched my three boyz come together and show admiration and love for each other.  Couldn't be prouder how they responded and how important it was to have Tabor join them on the sidelines.   On the down side Tanner will be on crutches for a couple of weeks and Dalton has been battling the flu for the past two days.  But from looking ahead we are three weeks away from wrestling practice, trip to K-STATE, Turkey Day, maybe pheasant hunting, deer hunting and a family trip to a very warm beach!  Thank you to all who supported us during football.  On to the next chapter!

We are ready to take the field!

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback – but not necessarily in that order.
Bud Grant

 Common Boyz you can do this!

Pinterest Win - Ziplock bag painting!

We found a Pinterest pin that worked perfectly for a cold rainy afternoon in mid October.

Ziplock Bag Painting