May 24-29
I have to say we have learned from our winter… get those kids OUTSIDE!!!
And on Sunday we joined Matt, Fran and their twins at a local park to have a full on BBQ…
And on the Monday we were back to Geocaching… we have had some amazing journal entries regarding our experience with some VERY creative hiding ideas.
We had a lovely print out for a scavenger hunt (HERE) to have the kids looking everywhere for their nature objects.
And a break with snacks and park fun while the twins and Ken hunted that last cache.
Tuesday was much more our work work work on the schoolwork day! We had a rather interesting experience learning about Legends and Pecos Bill. We are working on understanding the difference between true factual stories and what a legend really is. The kids just keep quoting back at me – EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS and then giggling.
We got back into our classic Treasure Island. I am not sure which book we will read next. BUT we are working on a plan to get us storytime every day.
We are working through our dinosaurs that were in our Texas book… of course links to all of this will be in the Texas resource page (eventually).
And then right back out to burn off the energy… so much discussion of spring, teaching of siblings on the outside toys… so much fun!
On Wednesday I changed it up. Before the mosquitoes can take hold we drug the whole classroom outside to enjoy our grassy backyard. Once we found an ant free spot that is!
Great fun and we didn’t get too badly eaten up.
We fulfilled another additional Scout thing by driving down to a local small airport and checking out the planes. The kids all took turns spotting planes and talking about the different kinds. Family favourite is the seaplane. Though everyone was quite put out they land in LAKES not SEAS.
From there it was on to a park for a Geocache and play about in the sun.
Add in some Texas themed story writing and I think we succeeded with an interesting mid week.
Thursday was another special outside day. Echo had a preschool assessment to go to at our church so she and Ken dropped us off half way with some schoolwork.
and a park! It was just really too bad that her session was delayed, we were there over 2 hours in the end and rather warm and cranky. BUT we met some wonderful little kids with their dads and enjoyed a perfect spring day.
Miss Echo did wonderfully with her assessment though they did reinforce that we should get her hearing tested to rule out anything extra in regards to her lisp (not total word forming… lazy girl!) which of course we already had scheduled for later in June.