April 7-8
Sometimes there really isn’t too much you can do to help family… but Sunday we managed to do our part. Anthony is still in hospital which has Darcy there as well… and while he is better he is not yet ready to be home. So that left Andy and the remaining 3 “A’s” home alone. With a request only Ken could fill we met up with them on Sunday at BestBuy to pick up a necessary piece of equipment for our lonely sickee. We picked up our birthday present for him as well, his very own Minecraft subscription. We were going to wait until his party but as plan have stalled (of course) we figured why not now?
So with 8 kids and 3 adults (two of which were not only male but busy talking electronics), I was VERY thankful for the test electronics available for the kids to bang around on (gently of course).
8 kids at BestBuy – Not bad!
Right to the Apple products
And computers too
Where the menfolk were the whole time
After that we went over to the Novak’s to set up the specs on the new machine… Echo was rather put out not to find her Nee Nee or Darcy there!
Setting things right
Then onto our original plan of spending Easter money!
So much fun shopping with the kids
Of course one Skylander came home as well
Monday was back to our schooling… with the good news that Anthony was heading home as well!
We had our Mr. Popper’s penguin chapter… I am loving this lapbook we found to go with it though I have found some minor errors. I found a site with some penguin crafts… Crafty-Crafted. We chose the Paper Loop Penguin.
All at work
Completed penguins
Our second book is The Pebble First Guide to Penguins by Katy R. Kudela.
With multiple illustrations
And then to round off our day after penguins, reading, spelling and more… Wild Kratts!
The Spider Monkey
Not the busiest of Mondays but when I look back at the stack we are creating for our penguin lapbook I feel like we are really learning something new. 17 types of penguins later and so far the Macaroni penguin is the favourite — just due to the name really. There are murmurings of wanting to learn about PANDAs next… maybe!
Gotta love the new rubber boots