We finished reading the book - which the girls gave 10 thumbs up.....
So I said if we finished reading the book we can go to the movie.....In the theater
We did and the girls gave it another 10 thumbs up....
Here are some of the differences we noticed between the book and the movie, its pretty long... so bare with us...
We walk around the campsite a lot and talk to all the old people and people on real vacation. The girls found a guy cutting down some of his bamboo and asked if we could have it.
I found a project online to make a bamboo wind chime .
The girls and I went to Lowe's and got a saw and a drill for fathers day. I decided that we could test out the drill to make homes in the bamboo. I wanted to make sure Michael was getting a good product. We also got little tape measures for each girl. I bought a wooden wreath at Michael's, paint and glitter.
We started by measuring different sizes to cut (6",9",12" and so on) and then I held the bamboo while the girls used a real saw to cut each piece, hard work when its 100 degree out.
Then the girls each took 4 bamboo stick and painted them, (2 brown for granddaddy and 2 green for daddy)and added glitter and there initials and glitter glue and all sorts of fun stuff to make them pretty for Grandaddy and Daddy.
We tied them to the wooden wreath and were done. I was very proud of the girls for using a real saw, measuring on there own - which of course led to math (discussing what a foot was, two feet, inches and so on) and on cutting there own pieces of bamboo - hard work, even for mom.
Here is a video of what they did - they do a much better job explaining than me :-)
How are clouds made??? That was the question for today..... so we made a cloud by taking a 2 leader soda bottle cut it in half and then but very hot water in the bottom and put ice in the top with the lid on and upside down.... It didn'[t really form cloud but it made steam (or condistation built up between the layers)
which formed on the side of the bottle and then dripped water like a cloud...
We go to the library every Wednesday and get some educational video and lot of books and here are some that we are reading right now...
Mac: The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson...
She did an excellent job but I started looking at the end and decided it was too scary
The Grapes of Math by Harry Briggs
Bird Watch by Jerry Jennings
Butterflies by All Aboard Science Reading
Belle: Dick and Jane - She has read all 12 books in the series
Lots of Spots by Lois Ehlert
Monster Stew by Mitra Modarressi
Clifford's Best Pal by Norman Bridwell
Pet Stories by Reading Rainbow
We read a chapter or two of each of these books everyday
Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg - by David Christiana - Mac wanted this book because it tell about how Raini losses her wings - she bought it with her own money
Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer - We want to get done with this one before the movie comes out in July....
We got Bill Nye the science guy - he is one of our favorites, and we watch Magic School Bus
This is a fairy house that Isabelle found by our camper and took a picture on her Ipad...
Fairy House
Here is a really funny video that McKenzey did....
Belle asked the question do Frogs eat lunch and and dinner like us..... So we looked it up on a fancy IPad2 and here is what we found out..
Postcard Tuesday...
We wrote postcards to two people each and this time the girls drew pictures of baby animals. I still have to find envelopes and stamps but hopefully they will be mailed soon. We are trying to get to everyone, so bare with us... This helps with spelling, and writing...
We did more workbook pages.... Mac had to read a story and then answer several questions, which she needed some help on but did pretty good and then she did math word problems. Belle did 2 pages on ending sounds of words. They worked on there Ipad for a bit and then we went to the library.
After we got home we watched BIll Nye the Science Guym - this time we watched a video on insects....
here is Belle video...
We did our two work book pages from Brain Quest - Today we did math. Mac did multiplication 1 and 2 times tables which she did with no help at all, I am so Proud!! Belle did subtraction pages which turned into tic-tac-toe. The were 2 digit problems that subtracted 2 digit problem (98-74=24).
Next we did our postcard writing, so if you haven't gotten a postcard from wonderful Hilton Head you will be soon! I decided we will start doing that once a week. It nice for everyone and good for girls to practice spelling and writing.
The last thing we did was work on our IPads - they did several educational games, spelling,typing,read 3 books, stack the states and of course Isabella ( a search and seek game)
Then we went swimming to finish off the day, found some bamboo (If anyone has any ideas of what we should do with it - let me know), took Jack for a walk and of course went for our daily ice-cream, which McKenzey used her own money to buy.
