iphone snapshots....

One thing I am loving about geocaching is that it leads you in to some places that you would not see otherwise!! I never knew this park existed and it was lovely! I must have driven by it a hundred times!!! And who knew there was treasure buried there!!!?? ;)

Another geocache find!!!!

I didn't feel very well this weekend so we cancelled our plans and instead we just went out to find a geacache fairly close to the grocery store we had to head to. This was a GREAT find - and the kids were THRILLED!!! We had taken things to trade with and so they were really pleased that they got to pick something to keep and they exchanged several things from their stash and took one thing each. Sam took a yellow ball and Susannah took some pencils. In exchange we left three things and signed the log book. It was a really good cache and the kind that we plan to make because I think this is the kind of cache that is best - adults are happy just to sign a book but kids LOVE treasure and it makes it soooooo much more fun if there is something to find - this is the third real 'treasure' find we have had now and the kids really get excited but I have to say this was the BEST one!!! :)

3 tired little ones.....

New sign for the bathroom????

We found this piece of garbage on the floor and couldn't resist snapping a picture!!! I joked that we should frame it and hang it in the bathroom ;)

Smile cookie monster!!!

Coraline...

Last night we all watched Coraline as a family movie and Abigail, Sam and I got to compare the movie to the book!! Wow - it is VERY different from the book! It was a great movie and we all enjoyed it (although Sam was scared at the end). It was just very interesting to see how different the story was from the book. I also thought how they interpreted the characters was very interesting - especially Miss Forcible and Miss Spink - wow their show was hilarious in the movie.....and kind of odd for a childrens animation.....although I guess the kind of parents who let their children watch movies like Coraline wouldn't mind things like that anyway - I just thought it was hilarious!!! ;)

It has been an interesting learning experience anyway - to read a book and then see a movie. Onwards and upwards - we move on to 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'. We have read the book a few times but this time we are reading it with 'meaning' as part of our unit study on comparing books and movies. So we will be heading off to the movie theatre this week some time!!!

Mail day!!

Abigail and Susannah cycled to one of our neighbours today to get some eggs, and then stopped off at the mailbox on the way home to collect the mail from yesterday. In amongst the mail was a letter addressed to Sam and Abigail!!! They were THRILLED!!!

Thank you sooooo much JoAnne! They were thrilled with the coupons and I see a few trips to McDonalds for breakfast in our very near future :)

Crafts with Fall leaves.....

We started with our Fall leaf crafts today but have more to do over the next few days when we have more time. I plan to do a 'mini album' or work in their art journals with them using ideas from the online workshop I am doing - some of the prompts will work well with children. I also think with the weather due to change, that it is time to pull out the childrens books we have about Fall.....poetry and childrens stories......and maybe one day this week we will go to a coffee shop for a hot chocolate/ pumpkin flavoured treat and savour the flavours of Fall! Mmmmm :) Sure beats being stuck in a classroom!!!

Leaf collecting...

This afternoon we went out and collected some Fall leaves. we tried to collect as many different types as possible - different colours, shapes, sizes, textures.....some with holes in them..some with spots on them etc etc.

We played outside for a while on the rope swing in the woods and enjoyed a Fall walk. Our pond had dried up and we talked about how our bees can no longer drink from there any more and how they need to be given drinks now. We met the school bus.

We brought the leaves we had collected back home and used them for crafts at the table.

Lunch bag puppets...

Abigail made a version of our cat Grayson - but as a puppet from a lunch bag! Then she brought it upstairs to show me her handiwork!!!

Another creation....

Using up some craft supplies from this Summers craft drawers...the blue 'thing' is actually a bone that Sam found on a walk (sigh....) and he was so thrilled with it that he wanted to bring it home, wash it and paint it!!! Anyway it made a nice addition to the little village of tipi's..... ;)

From the art class...

Here are a couple of Abigails pieces from her art class....they are from yesterdays class on Van Gogh. The second picture is based on his Sunflowers....perfect for this time of year and is now decorating the hall table - I think this is definitely one I will frame!!!! I just LOVE it!!!

Abby seems to have struck up several friendships in the class and I think i'll blame that for the fact she seems to have forgotten how to spell her name (lol) and needs to write her name twice on all her work - both ways might I add! Maybe if she wasn't such a chatterbox like her Mother she wouldn't be so distracted and would get her name right anyway ;)

Painting treasure boxes....

Fall is here....

Abigail - some iphone snapshots!!