Recently

Well, I'm falling off the wagon again!
Here are a few of the things we've done in the last week or so:
-Finished reading 'Little House on the Prairie' by Laura Ingalls
-Prepared a Little House dinner from the Little House cookbook. We made baked beans, creamed carrots, mashed potatoes and rye'n'injun bread (which Jason tried to convince the girls to call rye'n'corn bread, but to no avail, despite talking about why he thought the name from the book was no longer a very good idea).
-Read more of the pioneer story and the underground railroad story both by Barbara Greenwood.
-Spent a lot of time outside playing and doing yard work. The girls spent an entire day with our next door neighbours, Tammy and Maria, helping them put gardens in their back yard which had been badly neglected by the previous owner. It's looking great!
-Observed ants, caterpillars, earth worms and flies. Astrid managed to catch a fly with her butterfly net and put it in a jar with an ant to see what would happen.
-Did some watercolour painting.

-Built forts in the back yard.
-Astrid did some workbook pages in math and geography.
-Hung butcher paper on the fence on which the girls made a mural using oil pastels, crayons, paints, stickers and feathers.