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 :)