Friday, February 20, 2009

Nature Walks & Opossums




Today I took the girls to Ant-Sized Adventures, a great little nature program at Mission Trails, geared towards pre-K to K. The focus of this particular class was on raccoons and opossums. We learned a lot about each and sang cutesy songs about them. Lola loved it, but Elise was not into the classroom portion of this at all and pretty much pouted on my lap the whole time. She did get into the nature walk, especially the furry caterpillars we encountered along the way. Lola pointed out a bunch of stuff to me on the nature walk that I probably would never have noticed by myself. Her favorite part was getting to meet a live opossum after the nature walk was over. Our adventure ended with a craft, then we had lunch outside the visitor's center with some friends. It was really nice. We are signed up for another adventure next month. I hope Elise will share some of Lola's enthusiasm next time!

Friday, February 6, 2009

New math games....


I bought a great book with tons of math games for k-1 aged kids. We are having fun with it today and I even made up some of my own games with the new burst of inspiration!