Monday, April 28, 2008
-Last week, inspired by our friends, the Lovedays, we decided to do some still life drawing. We have a lot of practicing to do before we're as good as they are, but we had fun and were all pleased with what we drew considering it was our first time trying this. 
Muirgen's tomato, to which she felt compelled to add a cloud
bananas, as seen by Astrid and myself
-We spent the weekend with my parents who were down for a visit. We took them to the library, to a fundraising concert at which one of Jason's bands (The Gertrudes) performed,
to the playground, to the ice cream shop, on a walk around Kingston, to the flea market and to church. Grandpa read books to the girls and they did yard work with Grandma.
-Today the girls worked on their memory verses.
-They played in our rather wet basement. I don't know what they were doing, exactly, but I could hear them singing every song they could think of that was about rain. When I went down later I noticed that the water which had been running down the slightly sloping floor in little rivulets had been swept about to cover the entire floor.
-They spent an hour and a half playing with their friend, Hannah. Part of that time was spent outside in the rain, splashing in puddles and so forth.
-We read the first three chapters of 'On the Banks of Plum Creek' by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
-Last week we spent some time acting out the life cycle of a butterfly using receiving blankets to be our eggs, our food, our chrysalises and our wings. We were unsure about what butterflies do after they migrate south and mate. So today I asked Astrid if she thought we could find that information in any of the books we have in our little library. She pulled out a book about insects and the children's encyclopedia. We checked the insect book first. She used the table of contents to look up the section on butterflies and moths and found the page about them which we read. It did not contain the information we were looking for, so she looked up "butterfly" in the encyclopedia. It did not have the information either, but we managed to find it in the section on "migration".
-The girls listened to music and spent a fair amount of time playing Little House. August got to be baby Carrie. He's fairly willing to play the role at this point!
Muirgen's tomato, to which she felt compelled to add a cloud
bananas, as seen by Astrid and myself-We spent the weekend with my parents who were down for a visit. We took them to the library, to a fundraising concert at which one of Jason's bands (The Gertrudes) performed,
to the playground, to the ice cream shop, on a walk around Kingston, to the flea market and to church. Grandpa read books to the girls and they did yard work with Grandma.-Today the girls worked on their memory verses.
-They played in our rather wet basement. I don't know what they were doing, exactly, but I could hear them singing every song they could think of that was about rain. When I went down later I noticed that the water which had been running down the slightly sloping floor in little rivulets had been swept about to cover the entire floor.
-They spent an hour and a half playing with their friend, Hannah. Part of that time was spent outside in the rain, splashing in puddles and so forth.
-We read the first three chapters of 'On the Banks of Plum Creek' by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
-Last week we spent some time acting out the life cycle of a butterfly using receiving blankets to be our eggs, our food, our chrysalises and our wings. We were unsure about what butterflies do after they migrate south and mate. So today I asked Astrid if she thought we could find that information in any of the books we have in our little library. She pulled out a book about insects and the children's encyclopedia. We checked the insect book first. She used the table of contents to look up the section on butterflies and moths and found the page about them which we read. It did not contain the information we were looking for, so she looked up "butterfly" in the encyclopedia. It did not have the information either, but we managed to find it in the section on "migration".
-The girls listened to music and spent a fair amount of time playing Little House. August got to be baby Carrie. He's fairly willing to play the role at this point!
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