Monday April 7

Here is genevieve posing in front of our house, she wanted to get a picture with all of the flowers we have planted this week.  We went to the store and the kids picked out all the flowers and had a great time planting all of them

 

 

 

 

Here is a picture of Genevieve with facepaint on.  After Nathan and jeff went to the hockey game, I painted genevieves face.  We ordered pizza for dinner and watched Pride and Prejudice.  Yeah she loved the movie and wanted to watch it again the next day.  I am soooo thankful she liked it, since how can you not love jane austen.

 

 

                                           
                                       
                                               Nathan ready to go watch the canucks


fierce Nathan


 

Nathan is super excited

So this weekend we did some light schooling.  We watched the new science show called cosmos.  The kids also watched into the arctic, this was Geneviève's favorite, she loves learning about animals.  This was a great movie to watch as we are still working on learning about the arctic.  We played a few math games as well.

 

 

Monday

 

We started our moving beyond the page unit Sarah Plain and Tall.  We started by learning that the story would have 2 settings, we reviewed what the term setting is.  I told them the story would take place in Maine and in Kansas.  We then coloured some maps, of the area called New England.  When I asked the question why do you think this area is called New England Nathan was able to come up with the answer.  We also learned about the prairies also called the heartland.  I then copied a map of Canada and got the kids to colour the praire lands in Canada.   We discussed our trip to regina this summer, and how different the climate and environment was in the prairies compared to where we live.  We looked at the difference between Maine and Kansas, and talked about possible differences.  We then did some research on each of the states. 

 

I then showed the kids the title of the book and asked why some works are capitalized and others are not in the title.  We then talked about that Sara is a noun and Plain and Tall are adjectives.  Nathan said that Plain and Tall may not be adjectives, but maybe they could be the names of the children.  We also discussed and is a conjunction.

 

 

 

                                                                        Nathans work

                                                                                  Nathan

                                                                              



                                                                           Genevieve

I almost forgot we met with Jim Greendyk, Nathan really liked him and fell in love with a horse he will probably be riding :)  Nathan is pretty excited, I am as well.  I think it will be a great fun way for Nathan to improve his core strength.  I so want him to be able to sit comfortably.  Jim said that riding a horse takes an incredible amount of core strength, like trying to sit on a moving exercise ball, I think Nathan is up for the challenge.  He also said that depending on Nathan and what they accomplish Nathan may be able to show a horse as well!  Now to go buy cowboy boots :)  And he did suggest jeans as if he does really get into it, jogging pants can chafe, well that may be an issue, as I haven't found jeans that don't have buttons but I can sew! 

Oh and we have had lots of road hockey going on this week as well.  We have been taking advantage of all the awesome weather and getting outside to play lots.   Including a play date on Friday, with a bunch of kids playing roller hockey :)