Book Sharing Monday - A Bad Case of Stripes

A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon is about a little girl who, out of the blue gets stripes and ends up not being able to go to school.

The doctors were amazed and just couldn't figure out what was wrong with her or how to get the stripes and other designs on her skin to go away.

This is a cute and well illustrated story that is sure to impress.

Christmas at the Museum

I'm getting a bit behind in posting. Things have been getting a bit busy here.

We went to a Christmas at the museum field trip put on by someone on one of the local homeschool groups.

 We could only stay for half of it because we made other commitments for the afternoon. We chose to do the indoor section since we forgot to bring mittens for the outdoor part. We went around the world and learned about holiday celabrations in different countries.

There were stations set up with different crafts, reading and games to show examples of things that are different from place to place.

Book Sharing Monday - The Lion and The Mouse

We borrowed this version of the popular Aesop's fable from our library. It was more than interesting because it had hardly any words. This audio version was mostly sounds. 

Don't get discouraged about that. It was well done and we enjoyed it.

Decorating the Tree

 We have started to get ready for Christmas. We are a bit late this year.

 It  seems a bit strange having Christmas in someone else's house, but I think it'll be fine.

 We gave our tree away when we moved back to Ontario because it wouldn't fit in the trailer. This isn't our tree, but we are using our decorations.

 Putting the decorations on the tree wouldn't be complete without a bunny ear picture.

Have a happy holiday season!

Christmas Parade

 Small town Christmas Parades are fun, free and it's easy to have a good view.

 While waiting the kids played on the stairs of this old building.

 The pigeons seemed to know that something was going on.

 I thought that these dogs were so adorable!

Santa made an appearance. Life is good in small town Ontario.



Book Sharing Monday - The Little Crooked House

The Little Crooked House by Margaret Wild is a fun book about a little man and his cat who are live in a crooked house. If they become unhappy about where the house is, the house gets up and moves.

It's a fun book with silly illustrations. We rather enjoyed it and recommend it.

First Holiday Craft

I remembered doing this craft at a Homeschool Co-Op a couple of years ago and decided to pull it up on the iPad and do it with the kids. We are a bit limited because we don't know where many of our craft supplies are, but this craft just requires, paper, scissors, a stapler, and tape.

Mine is on the left. I followed the directions exactly. Zoe did the one on the right. I'm so proud of her because she did it all by herself except for the stapling. Austyn's is in the middle. I helped him a great deal. The cool thing about Austyn's is that his has more ribbons cut and a bigger center, on each arm of the snowflake. It looks different than ours and turned out amazing.

HERE is the link to make them yourself.