how about you… you… you? You could come too… too… too. We’re going to the zoo… zoo… zoo…

I love how Ken is still rubbing sunscreen onto his ears.

Near the entrance

I love the romantic lighting from the moisture heavy air.

Out from behind the camera for a moment.

Mr. Q

I swear this polar bear has OCD it kept swimming then going up like that and bobbing its head

Out front of the polar bear area.

Bison

Snack time

These two stuck together like glue.

Lions… no tigers and bears… oh my.

Steep stairs

How tall IS a giraffe?

Zander’s favourite

Monkey of some sort

Quinn and Steve had matching shoes

I wish I had the patience

And a chipmunk on the way out

For all of our Easter resources please refer to the blog entry titled “Easter Resources“.

April 1-2

Not emotional but educational… and more importantly – LAUNDRY!

Looks like an episode out of hoarding but it actually is a week and a half of laundry for 7!

We tricked/convinced the twins to watch half of the first load!

But first… MONDAY… April Fools was a non issue here… except for Anthony (god son) contacting a bunch of people with his joke and getting trouble with his mom. I don’t talk to the kids about it at this point. We have enough problems with behaviours right now, I would rather not tempt fate! BUT we did make our April poster… again talking about spring is still somewhat theoretic but we managed.

April

We started working on our Easter assembly only to RUN OUT of glue stick!!! WHAT??? I could have sworn that I had enough to last a while yet. Which means I probably do but have misplaced where I put them. So instead we started on Wild Kratts… 3 episodes!

Bats

Zebra

Firefly

The boys worked on copywork out of our Julie Andrews’ Treasury – The Easter Bunny by Rupert S. Holland.

Poetry

We also had some Easter games I picked up at the Dollar Tree.

Gaming together

Emanuel got a head start on the penguins with his own two page illustration.

Penguins at play

Tuesday was a Ken at work day, and the kids and I started right on the penguins with Mr. Popper’s Penguins. Again I am going to do the resource page at the end! This was Emanuel’s suggestion, he has always loved penguins best. We had some worksheets and a second book from the library… What’s in the Egg, Little Pip? by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman.

Cute little story

We had worksheets to accomplish…

Colour by words

Zander created his own little car ramp/jump for his remote control car.

Jump/ramp

This also marked the end of our reading program for the school year… one last round of pizzas!

YUM

Daddy also had a special picture waiting for him on his desk here at home at the end of the day!

Beautiful

And so our week has begun, as has April!

Colouring in the sunshine

Sunshine is once again gracing our home today. We went out to H&W after a pretty leisurely morning for everyone but Ken who had work to do at his computer. Not a huge amount of sales to take advantage of this week, but we did get a bag of kiwi, bananas, apples… etc.

Out in the sun (Gavin left)

We got right to work on our elephant and zebra posters. I am very happy with how quickly it all came together, though I really need to figure out how to make pockets on my own instead of needing Ken to do that final step. The boys are all excited about the idea of doing Arctic Foxes TOGETHER… to practice TEAMWORK as Zander says. I am hoping to find maybe a print out of their footprint, information about their habitat etc etc.

Gavin at work on portions of the Zebra poster

Completed Zebra poster

Completed Elephant poster

Trinity seems to really have come to grips with the idea of hair being in elastics. I am really starting to enjoy putting her hair up in the morning, not that it stays perfectly but we are learning.

Ponytail again

Last night I managed to get done the page from our trip to the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in Minnesota. I would like to add some vintage style notions eventually but don’t have any on hand.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

As an added bonus Karyn is here for a few nights while volunteering at a Librarian’s conference here in the city. So company in the evening while I am crafting is an added bonus. Last night she worked on a crochet project. It is great to have a friend over for a while even if she has to be out in the wee hours of the morning.

So our original plan to do a picnic or snack idea was waylaid by bad traffic on the way back from H&W.  The plan now is to keep our days open until a good day to go out and enjoy the sunshine for a few hours appears. After all Karyn only works until 2 pm on Friday! The luxury of the combination of homeschooling and a husband who works from home.

I am really glad to be completing things with the boys, and continuing with my scrapbooking… Hopefully the trends continue!

Cuteness extreme from the back

Bonus image! Nekid Alpaca!

Alpaca!