Tuesday, March 18, 2008
I'm going to see if I can resurrect this blog. I'm feeling a bit more on top of things again now that August is almost a year old (so hard to believe!) It's not that we didn't do anything over the past year, it's just that I didn't have time or energy to record it.
Yesterday we went to the library with our friends, the Peters', who then came over for lunch. The kids dyed Easter eggs and spent the afternoon playing together.
On to today:
-We read the section in "A Pioneer Story" by Barbara Greenwood on maple sugaring and did an experiment that involved freezing two cups of water; one with sugar added to it. The point was to see what the purpose of sugar is in maple sap. The experiment did not seem to produce the desired results.
-We delivered fliers to houses in our neighbourhood giving information about all of the events going on at our church this coming weekend - Easter. We studied the map which had the route marked out on it, found where our house was and planned which directions to go in in order to complete the route most efficiently. This was particularly exciting for Muirgen whose dream, at present, is to be a mail carrier when she grows up. Last week we met a mail carrier in the grocery store and stopped to talk to her. She told Muirgen that when she was a little girl, she always wanted to be a mail carrier, too. She encouraged Muirgen to go for it, telling her it's the best job she could imagine, she loves it and it's good money, good exercise, and so on. She told us a bit about what her job involves, besides delivering mail. Muirgen was in awe of her!
-The girls listened to the first installment of 'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett on tape. Muirgen wasn't all that interested in it and Astrid listened to all of it, but told me after that she thinks it's meant for kids who are a little older than her, so I don't know if they'll finish it at this time.
-Since it's Lent, we've been going through a little Lent devotional after lunch every day. We light a candle and open and close our devotion time with the same prayers each day (which the girls memorized fairly quickly). I read the devotion for the day to the girls and we sometimes do a little activity to reinforce what we read. Today we only read and discussed it. These have lead to some really good discussions.
-We read another section of 'A Pioneer Story' which was about what school was like for Canadian pioneers in the 1800s. It talked about different ways they learned to measure things given that most families did not have measuring implements such as tape measures or meter sticks like we do. We measured our arm spans with lengths of string and compared them to the length of our bodies. The girls were quite surprised to find that the two lengths were about equal on all of us.
-Muirgen made shapes on the floor using the length of strings we'd cut for measuring.
-Muirgen washed dishes and Astrid dried and put them away. Astrid unloaded the dishwasher.
-Astrid baked cookies with me. She is almost to the point where she could bake cookies without any help from me. She can read the recipe herself now and find the right measuring cups and spoons. She can measure out the ingredients and crack the eggs. Soon I might encourage her to try it all on her own.
-Jul, Clover and Oakley came over for a couple hours to play and had supper with us.
-We watched a National Geographic documentary called 'The Incredible Human Body'.
Yesterday we went to the library with our friends, the Peters', who then came over for lunch. The kids dyed Easter eggs and spent the afternoon playing together.
On to today:
-We read the section in "A Pioneer Story" by Barbara Greenwood on maple sugaring and did an experiment that involved freezing two cups of water; one with sugar added to it. The point was to see what the purpose of sugar is in maple sap. The experiment did not seem to produce the desired results.
-We delivered fliers to houses in our neighbourhood giving information about all of the events going on at our church this coming weekend - Easter. We studied the map which had the route marked out on it, found where our house was and planned which directions to go in in order to complete the route most efficiently. This was particularly exciting for Muirgen whose dream, at present, is to be a mail carrier when she grows up. Last week we met a mail carrier in the grocery store and stopped to talk to her. She told Muirgen that when she was a little girl, she always wanted to be a mail carrier, too. She encouraged Muirgen to go for it, telling her it's the best job she could imagine, she loves it and it's good money, good exercise, and so on. She told us a bit about what her job involves, besides delivering mail. Muirgen was in awe of her!
-The girls listened to the first installment of 'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett on tape. Muirgen wasn't all that interested in it and Astrid listened to all of it, but told me after that she thinks it's meant for kids who are a little older than her, so I don't know if they'll finish it at this time.
-Since it's Lent, we've been going through a little Lent devotional after lunch every day. We light a candle and open and close our devotion time with the same prayers each day (which the girls memorized fairly quickly). I read the devotion for the day to the girls and we sometimes do a little activity to reinforce what we read. Today we only read and discussed it. These have lead to some really good discussions.
-We read another section of 'A Pioneer Story' which was about what school was like for Canadian pioneers in the 1800s. It talked about different ways they learned to measure things given that most families did not have measuring implements such as tape measures or meter sticks like we do. We measured our arm spans with lengths of string and compared them to the length of our bodies. The girls were quite surprised to find that the two lengths were about equal on all of us.
-Muirgen made shapes on the floor using the length of strings we'd cut for measuring.
-Muirgen washed dishes and Astrid dried and put them away. Astrid unloaded the dishwasher.
-Astrid baked cookies with me. She is almost to the point where she could bake cookies without any help from me. She can read the recipe herself now and find the right measuring cups and spoons. She can measure out the ingredients and crack the eggs. Soon I might encourage her to try it all on her own.
-Jul, Clover and Oakley came over for a couple hours to play and had supper with us.
-We watched a National Geographic documentary called 'The Incredible Human Body'.
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