old stone house days

This summer Izzy and I spent a few Fridays at the Old Stone House for their kids Fridays. They had old games and fun crafts going on. She had fun but we have decided she has gotten a bit too old for them. She could probably lead one of the crafts next year!

good citizen

Spent an afternoon with Izzy at the State House celebrating all the hard work she did this summer completing the Good Citizens Challenge. Her "I Voted" sticker was one of 12 nominees, out of 96, that made it the last vote. She won a cardboard pinboard machine kit for her efforts! It was a fun afternoon and proud of her and all her hard work.

Fort Ticonderoga

Took the kids to Fort Ticonderoga for their homeschool day. Our first field trip of the year. We had fun checking everything out and then got to go through their corn maze and ended the day by taking a drive up a mountain for a spectacular view. A very nice day with my two babes.

busy sewing

We have been going to our local library for evening sewing programs. Izzy has taken super well to it and loves doing it. She has made a pillowcase and now a zippered bag

library fun

 This weekend Izzy and went to two different libraries for some fun free programming. Saturday we went to a planetarium lady. She had a pop up planetarium and we got to learn all about the night sky. Very informative and interesting.

Then on Sunday we went to build your own birdhouse program. Izzy did everything basically by herself. I just held the wood while she hammered. 

It was a few hours of my girl which was nice.

printmaking

 Izzy went to a printmaking class where she was able to design and cut her own print. It came out so amazing. Her Adi dog, she said.

fishing festival

Izzy and I attended a local fishing festival. They had different learning stations where she learn about specific fish, do a craft, learn to tie knots and cast a fishing rod. She was very into all of it. She then had the opportunity to fish for awhile. She did not catch anything that day but on our way out they gave her a brand new fishing pole since sha had spent the whole day there. Her luck is still with her. Now we have to find some places to go fishing.
 

learning about bees

We went to a class where we built bee boxes and learned how to trap them and then feed them some sweet water so that we can follow them to their beehive, if we ever wanted to find a natural beehive. It was pretty neat to learn about and when we got home they tried out the boxes, but haven't found a hive yet.

a creative week

 I ran a robot class at the library and it was such fun to see all the kids ideas and how they came out. Everyone was so very into it. 

Then we had our last class of the Red Clover Book Club that I have been leading all year. We made a mixed media collage of  the ten books that we read throughout the year. There was an element from all the books and in the center there was a big poop since the winner of the award went to the book, I Eat Poop. It was really fun to see the kids ideas.