Week six and the second half of the term is upon us. We can feel that spring is around the corner as the weather slowly warms up and flowers and trees are starting to bloom everywhere. This was an exciting week for us as we started it with a visit from a dear friend of ours. She missed out (thanks to COVID) on celebrating Munchkin's birthday in April and Monkey's birthday in July. So we arranged a special afternoon together with presents and delicious food. The rest of the week we worked hard on written work, continued reading all our wonderful books, and enjoyed the wonderful sunshine when we got outdoors.
I will continue to photograph our stack of books every Sunday afternoon after they are released from their three day quarantine. Once COVID is behind us, I will simply photograph the stack we bring home with us after our weekly trip to the library on Thursdays. This is an easy way to see when we have checked books out. Given that we have had some confusion as to when books have been returned as well, I'm now keeping a list of what books I return each Thursday as well. There is only so much faith I have in technology and sometimes the computer scanner in the overnight return chute just doesn't work right.
Monster is nearly finished with another puzzle... this is his Sunday night progress!
Munchkin opening his wonderful gifts from our friend... she has a knack for finding really special and meaningful gifts for the boys and they were super excited!
Monkey diving in to his pile of presents... he was gifted with an activity book, a build your own ball shooter toy, and lots of art supplies. He was in heaven!
Monday night Monster finished his puzzle...
Tuesday night he promptly started a new puzzle...
Munchkin began his mathematics review on Khan Academy this week... there were tears and drama until I agreed to open an account for him so that his work would earn him points that he can use to upgrade an Avatar! Whatever it takes to motivate him... now he LOVES it and begs to work on it longer than the time I've scheduled... Munchkin also loved running ahead of the rest of us as we enjoyed a walk in the sunshine!
Munchkin playing Uno Stacko with daddy...
Another afternoon walk... this time on the boardwalk to the wetlands... you probably can't see them well but along the log at the top of the photograph are tons of tiny fish!
We found a baby hairy caterpillar when we were walking along the boardwalk so we carefully brought him home and placed him in our bug house. I will get better photos when I feed him through the next week since you can't really see him at all in this photo.
More puzzle progress from Monster...
Monkey found a baby cricket in the house and decided to release the pill bug and keep the cricket... Sadly when he was doing the transfer the cricket jumped away and we couldn't catch him again. Thankfully we get LOTS of crickets in the house in the spring and summer so the bug house is ready and waiting for the next one we find...
He was a cute little cricket and we were sad to see him go...
A photo of the pill bug as he was running away to freedom...
We checked out the construction progress on our way home from the library on Thursday afternoon. Believe it or not this is going to be four apartments when it is all finished. We are enjoying see the progress whenever we walk along our new footpath/sidewalk.
Thursday night puzzle progress...
Munchkin and daddy working together to build the jet engine kit that Munchkin received from our dear friend on Monday...
Finally some Friday afternoon sunshine and exercise on the trampoline!
Munchkin did a LOT of independent reading this week... the two older boys also read the How to Train Your Dragon books through the week as well.
We finished two non-fiction read alouds this week as well!
