What a Week!

We have had a full week. A few really hot days where we just didn't want to do anything except sit inside our one air conditioned room and read books, play games or watch movies. But we still got in a lot of learning.
Lets take a look......
Ian has really enjoyed all the Pirate books we have been reading.
He even sat through the whole Pirates Magic Tree House Research guide. I really enjoyed the library book called Pirate Treasure. In it the captain uses a lot of the seafaring sayings about the weather. Such as red skies at night sailors delight, red skies at morn' sailors be warned. I hadn't heard all those saying and they are good to know.
We finished reading and listening to Peter Pan earlier this week and were waiting for Peter and the Starcatchers to come in at the library. We will start that next week

During our hot days I turned on the sprinkers for the kids to run through. They loved it. And of course anytime there is water there is mud.
The boys had a great time, and at least they were cooled down a bit. I hosed them down, which they loved, before coming inside so the clean up was so bad.

While out shopping one day last week one of the store we at were offering free tickets to a minor league baseball game. We love these free tickets and take advantage of them at least once or twice every summer. The tickets may be free but parking and treats at the park aren't so it is still a special event for us. So while at the ball park we enjoyed some cotton candy and rooted for the home team. We went with a few friends and all the kids had a great time. The kids loved it when the crowed sang along to songs or got up to do the wave. They also enjoyed all the between inning side show contests. By about the 7th inning they all we asking how much longer the game was going to be and if they could get more cotton candy. So after doing the 7th inning stretch and singing Take me out to the Ball game with the crowed we left. It was nice to be outside for a change since it had been one of the hottest days this week and luckily it had cooled off enough to be endurable.

Back to academics.

We read a biography of Frederic Remington. Sophie even tried to draw a few Remingtonish pictures.I think they turned out quite well.

We also read a few books about weather and focused on wind. We tried to make a pinwheel. They looked alright but wouldn't turn. But the kids really enjoyed making a weather girl and dress her up with all the different outfits to fit the different types of weather.

There are no children's books about Camille Saint-Saen. We did find a few Carnival of Animals books and CD's.
Sophie has listened to these at least 3 or 4 times everyday. She knows which song goes with each animal. Ian gets a few of them. We did look Saint-Saen up on Wiki so we at least know a little about him. Sophie thought it was funny that Saint-Saen didn't like Debusey.

We even squeezed in a little Math today. We still have about 1/3 of the Singapore 1B book. Ian loves getting out his preshool book to do math too. I think I will get him some Early Bird math books for him when I order the 2A and 2B books for Sophie. Henry usually does a book of mazes while we sit and do math. So everyone is busy with their own "math" book.

That about sums up our week. We enjoyed cooler weather today, thank goodness! Hopefully we will get around to more Nature walks and Outdoor hour challenges if the weather stays nice for a bit. Aarrgh!