It's my life...
We will be doing a theme in our lessons and crafts most weeks.. This week was aquarium week! We got to start the week off with some fun and we went to the Huntsman Marine Science Center Sealab and Aquarium on Saturday with our friends the Hughes family! We had a blast picnic first then a lonnnnnng time in the aquarium/sealab. It isnt huge but they have an AWESOME touch tank and the kids (and adults) played in that for HOURS! I will be uploading those pics soon and posting.
To go with our themes each week I have been ordering books in from the Library through their online catalogue after looking up books in the current theme online. I love this because it is giving us some great book options to look to adding to our current personal library and not only books that are at our local library... I can order from any library in the province and pick them up locally. I am keeping a list of our favourites so with birthday money or at Christmas and when out at the second hand stores I can snag as many as I can!
Our books this week so far have been
Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni
It got okay reviews but not one we want to scramble right out and buy. It is simple and cute but a little young for the kids maybe? They listened to it and everything but it just wasn't a stand out book to us :)
Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea by Jan Peck
This book is cute..it is repetitive, fun, the kids loved it and it wasn't annoying to read ;) Definitely hitting the buy list! The ending made them giggle too!
Our craft today was Shark Tambourines filled with popcorn kernels.
Yes, you can say they were a hit. Though anything that involves a shark is pretty much a hit here right now ;)
Now what possessed me to plan a craft that makes NOISE I am not quite sure? Maybe some kind of self punishment? I will add that to the list of things to someday talk about when I finally get that much needed therapist ;)
More oceany fun to come tomorrow!!
To go with our themes each week I have been ordering books in from the Library through their online catalogue after looking up books in the current theme online. I love this because it is giving us some great book options to look to adding to our current personal library and not only books that are at our local library... I can order from any library in the province and pick them up locally. I am keeping a list of our favourites so with birthday money or at Christmas and when out at the second hand stores I can snag as many as I can!
Our books this week so far have been
Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni
It got okay reviews but not one we want to scramble right out and buy. It is simple and cute but a little young for the kids maybe? They listened to it and everything but it just wasn't a stand out book to us :)
Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea by Jan Peck
This book is cute..it is repetitive, fun, the kids loved it and it wasn't annoying to read ;) Definitely hitting the buy list! The ending made them giggle too!
Our craft today was Shark Tambourines filled with popcorn kernels.
Yes, you can say they were a hit. Though anything that involves a shark is pretty much a hit here right now ;)
Now what possessed me to plan a craft that makes NOISE I am not quite sure? Maybe some kind of self punishment? I will add that to the list of things to someday talk about when I finally get that much needed therapist ;)
More oceany fun to come tomorrow!!
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