This is pretty much the last week before we get ready for our new school year. Skyler did some outside fun with planting mint in her fairy gardens. We had gotten cutting some weeks back and they finally grew roots so here is hoping they do nicely outside!
We also "rescued" some plants in the clearance section at Lowes for her. She is all about rescuing the plants LOL!
The plate in this garden is for bees. She really loves bees!
We found a bee house at Aldi so she had to have that too for her gardens. I didn't know this but apparently bees and fairies are great friends!
Since our amazing field trip to see dinosaurs was so much fun we decided to have some dinosaur days!! Months back I had made a dinosaur basket but we had never really messed with it much so this was the week for dinosaurs! It is so hard to find cool dinosaur stuff for older kids. Everything is usually for much younger children or it is dry and boring. Skyler finally decided to crack open her Dino Doodle Journal and start working in that. She loves her journals.
We sure did learn about bees this week! Skyler is pretty big on bees, I mean they are a friend of the fairies after all! The first thing we did was learn how bees smell. She had fun picking stuff out of the spice cabinet to use for this one!
She made little cups and had to close her eyes to smell and guess. She had to do this two times to see if she got them right each try and she missed on the second!
I bet every kid that has ever been to the Jacksonville Zoo has a picture like this! My kids have several, I think they should start a wall of fame at the zoo for all the kids pictures. I am sure many kiddos have literally grown up alongside this turtle! We really like taking the same picture at different times to see how things have changed through the years. This is the first zoo turtle picture my oldest isn't in. I didn't realize until later when looking through them that the kids still grouped together as if there were another child there. They have been a group of four and i don't think they will ever stop expecting her to be there.
Giraffes are one of the coolest animals ever and I love taking pictures of life size models next to my kids. It makes it seem like they are still small!!
We stopped off at the gift shop first, we just had to hunt around!
This week Skyler finished her Shakespeare Globe Theater! She was pretty pleased with herself too!
She also did a bit of work in her fairy gardens. The plate is for bees to have water she is calling it a bee lake!
The fairy cook book came out and she whipped up some treats!
This week the kiddos worked on their projects for Homeschool In The Woods Renaissance and Reformation Project Passport! Review for that in a future post! My kids love this time period and making projects so it was a fun week! Skyler is making Shakespeare's Globe Theater and Fox made a chessboard.
Skyler also made some "fairy crystal jewelry"! Sadly my camera did not cooperate and the picture is a bit fuzzy.
We had a fun day at the Santa Fe Teaching Zoo College! I think Skyler has found her college! Today was Zoo Keeper Day so there were quite a few people there to talk to, ask questions and teach us stuff! I love these kind of field trips! We even got Rhyli out of her lazy mood and she came along!
This week was a fun week. Skyler painted. Fox was being boring and didn't do anything cool other than read, math and watch documentaries. I guess those things can be cool just not really worth countless pictures, ya know! Sky had fun painting and I had fun watching. She can use that paint brush better than I can use markers! I even had to do a little video.
She did well after a few tries on mixing the colors to get them just the shades she wanted.
Another busy week! Skyler is still learning about herbs and fairies and having fun while she is at it! I love her little creative self!
Skyler is having fun finally getting to read her Herb Fairy books! It is nice having her home all day and not at camp.
Skyler was excited to get a book about bees! The truly cool thing about this book is you can turn it into a beehive for mason bees! While nobody likes getting stung by a bee they are extremely important to our environment. This book is packed full of experiments and activities as well.
Fox was pretty excited this week to put up a hammock. A friend of mine had it brand new never used and I knew Fox would just love it! Of course Skyler had to help him and he wasn't too thrilled to see me taking pictures of him with no hat!
My kiddos are still doing their fun stuff this summer!! Fox is really likeing his survival skills stuff. He isn't crazy about the math, but he is moving forward!! He did learn about tieing knots in one of his books this week. This is like "boy stuff" to me. This is an area I knew nothing about so I think my boys missed the bus on some stuff. There has never been anyone around to do these things with so to Fox this is fun stuff!
