It has rained and rained here and if it is not raining it is freezing cold. Seems like we are stuck in the house a lot more than we would like to be. I’m not one to get out much if it is freezing. Piper is the only one that will brave the really cold days and even she doesn’t stay out very long. So, we have worked on school and done projects for history, studied extra science and started a new book – The Secret Garden. We have been doing a pretty good job getting stuff done.
Some of the kids made these Indian rattles for history and also teepees and drums. We have been studying about Indians and the settlers at Jamestown. Making a few things breaks up the day and makes it more enjoyable and that is a little more important since we are in the house so much. Piper and Tess really love a project. They love to make just about anything.
Bella used cut up straws and made a necklace that she really liked.
We have been wanting to get out and go to Jamestown for the day, but it rains so much we haven’t made it there. On Sunday it was the nicest day we have had in ages and we were planning on going to Jamestown that day — but, again, it started raining and it didn’t look like it would stop. So, we sat home hoping we would get out at least to a park or something later in the day. Finally, in the late afternoon it stopped raining and I took some of the kids on a nature walk. They took their nature journals and and I took my camera. We just went to a park that has a lot of paths and large rocks, trees and a lake. It was really quiet and almost nobody there.
We walked up and down and all over the park. We stopped and the kids wrote a little and did a little drawing. It was beautiful and so quiet and it felt so good to be outside.
