Club STAR lesson on book making

 Our Club STAR lesson this week was on book making. The kids each made their own book and homemade paper.

Club STAR Lesson on Flags

The first Club STAR lesson of 2009 was on flags. Here the kids were learning the correct way to fold a flag and why it's done the way that it is done.

Club Star: A hiking we will go!

Autumn is such a beautiful time of year to take a hike. We enjoyed wonderful weather, colorful leaves all around us, enjoyable friends and fresh air. The kids played, caught lady bugs, and collected leaves. What a great day off from school!

Club Star: Photography 8/21/08

For the final week of photography, hosted by the Martins, all of the kids tinted their own black and white pictures.
Every great picture needs a cool frame.
Devon painted his like a Pokeball.
Makenna's was a rainbow of colors.

With the exception of Makenna, the kids all presented pictures that they took. Makenna's camera has been a little bit disappointing. The pictures have been blurry. We turned the lemons into lemonade and let her show her latest dance pictures.
Our final Club STAR activity for the summer of 2008 is complete. Yeah, we did it! Time to start planning themes for next summer!

Club Star BBQ

No, that is not Devon's beer!

Club Star: Photography 8/7/08

The next two weeks of Club Star lessons are being presented by our family. We chose photography. Just to shake things up, we went on our field trip the first week. We visited a darkroom at the Ogden Arts Center, had a lesson given to us by a high school photography teacher and set out to take pictures in downtown Ogden. The kids looked took pictures while laying on the grown, up close, and/or with reflections (just to name a few approaches). It was an eye opening, scorching hot day!

Club Star: This Is The Place field trip

This weeks Club Star field trip was to This Is The Place Monument and Park. It is a simulated town that is run and operated like they did when the Pioneers were alive. They have original houses and cabins that have been moved to the site. There are people acting as tins smith, mothers, teachers, etc. for a very hands-on involved experience. Even in 100+ degree weather it was very enjoyable.

The kids enjoyed a lesson in the schoolhouse.
Devon raising his hand during the classroom lesson.
The proper way to hold your hands while in class.
The children performed chores as the children did during pioneer times. Devon beat the rugs.
Makenna washed the laundry.

Jayden watered the plants by hand.
The kids got to see how they would spin yarn.
Makenna helped to prepare the wool for spinning into yarn.

Club Starville Pioneers

This weeks lesson at Club Star was on the Utah Pioneers. The kids started the day with a Pioneer Day parade around the neighborhood.

Next, they played games that the Pioneer children enjoyed. Like three-legged races, wheel barrel races and leap frog.




The kids all made items that children used to make when they had extra materials. They had their choice of making a baseball, a bag for marbles or a corn husk doll.


Even treats required a lot of work before you could enjoy them. The kids pulled their own piece of taffy, ate hard tac, tasted rock candy and sampled beef and buffalo jerky. All of which, I might add, was made safe for the food allergic "pioneer" children.


It was a fun, hands-on lesson.