Of course, too many pictures to share in one post. The zoo always results in images that are too numerous for a single post… so enjoy!
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May We Reflect on the 5th Month of 2015?
Yup slowly but surely we are working our way to current life… it has just seemed like the year has slipped away before we could truly grasp it! But on I go… May…
Well, what happens in May? Mother’s Day… that is the big one.
But we had so much more going on… Spring means sunshine and park days! We do have a couple nearby.
It also means (in Texas), roses are big, gorgeous and mailable… Gammie has always sent us beautiful blooms from her garden that seem to make it in record time for the most part, smell and petals intact!
Garage sales have started back up as well. A goldmine for books, toys and the odd piece of clothing… especially when they are walking distance.
The hot find for this year – LITTLEST PET SHOP pieces! Trinity and Echo are now addicted to them. Odd little bobble head things.
Miss Trinity completed a couple workbooks, as did Emanuel.
We dressed up fancy for church, especially when there was singing to be done for the Cherub Choir!
Scouts figured highly in our activities around the month of May… anything to fulfill Emanuel’s arrow points. This is a game where you throw washers into a pie plate. All the kids enjoyed that one! Noisy though.
One of Trinity’s birthday presents was a knot it yourself fleece blanket with a Hello Kitty theme. Trinity was such a go getter with this one – her goal was to finish in time for the Family Night movie at the YMCA… she made it!
Miss Echo was gifted a lovely selection of shoes thanks to the Schwartz family’s neighbour! What a blessing!!
We took the whole family for a special outing to the carousal at one of the smaller malls.
The kids rescued some free chairs from the end of the neighbour’s drive as well. Decent condition and rather comfy!
May also marked the beginning of this year’s straw bale garden. Nana and Baba are gone so much now they figured they would set it up and let the boys go with it. The results were… varied… but they did enjoy the process of setting things up, planting and such.
It is surprising how quickly winter melts away around here. The kids are always quick to embrace that change, really they are quick to embrace each and every season with a great deal of enthusiasm.
Cousin Robbie even found the time for a visit! A college student now we see a lot less of him but the visits we do have are terrific!
We ended the month with a trip to the zoo (Como) with Aunty Shandai and Uncle Ravyn. Sometimes a place takes on a whole new experience just by adding some amazing company. So sit back and enjoy the inevitable photo overflow!!!! Happy May!!! (belatedly!)
You can find the rest of the month’s images (many from the zoo) HERE. Can’t resist sharing these!!!
And of course we spent a lot of time with the Schwartz family! Even met the neighbour’s baby. Now that we have snow it is fun to look back at all this green warm sunshine!
Don’t forget Home Depot with Daddy and Baba!
And our time with Kites and the Wind (resources HERE).
And tons more but instead… a few more pics and then bop up to that link at the zoo section and see the overflow! Bask in the warm images with our cold winter just beginning!
Kites and the Wind
Well what to do in April when the weather simply will not accommodate but dream of flying kites and educate the kids on proper tornado safety. Amazingly enough this lined up perfectly with a surprise tornado warning siren that was done during extreme weather education week and that we did NOT know about in advance. So we got to experience first hand going into our sub basement and discussing how to stay safe there until the all clear was given!
We used our scout book and their very timely arrow points to make a grand total of THREE different kites – diamond, sled and barn door. Yup we even looked those up and found more single string kites to do topic cards to put on our poster. We were on the ball! And to top it off, we also bought a brand new (and very decently priced) TURTLE kite from Sam’s Club. Now for a good day with a nice wind to trial fly them all. You can find the actual instructions we used for our diamond kites HERE. The scout book was a bit too vague.
Of course we also did a whole mini unit on tornadoes, being as we are in an area where they do occur. You can find our tornado lapbook HERE.
Of course we had a list of links we used…
- Facts thanks to Kids Kites HERE.
- MyBestKite.com has amazing history and individual kite information resources HERE.
- KiteMan has a great LONG list of interesting kite facts about kites and history around the world HERE
And books…
- The Kite That Bridged Two Nations by Alexis O’Neill based on a true story about the bridge across Niagara from the US to Canada HERE.
- The Story of Kites by Ying Chang Compestine HERE.
- Let’s Fly a Kite by Stuart J. Murphy where we even got a chance to deal with symmetry HERE.
- I Face the Wind by Vicki Cobb HERE.
We did borrow a nice line up of wind and tornado related books and used most… I will include all of what we borrowed used or not…
- What Makes a Good Tornado Twist? by Mary Kay Carson HERE.
- The Wind by Craig Hammersmith HERE.
- Wind Power by Kathy Allen HERE.
- The Magic Schoolbus Presents Wild Weather the Nonfiction Companion HERE.
- It’s a Disaster! Tornado by Jessica Rudolph HERE.
- Fueling the Future Wind Energy by Elizabeth Raum HERE.
- Tornado! by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin HERE.
- World of Weather by David Adler HERE.
And video of course…
- The Magic Schoolbus Takes Flight HERE
Hopefully these items will help out in case of wind and kite interest!!