Monday, August 1, 2016

A Little Bit of July

Jayden has been fascinated with making stop motion videos for months now. He spends a lot of his free time creating scenery and storylines for his characters.
At Wild Explorers we have done a bunch of things for our Bear Badge. One of the assignments was to learn a new game or sport. The kids all brought or created their own board games to share.
Another assignment was to learn new words in another language. We learned some Greek words!
We've had pool days with friends... 

 and we have enjoyed the beach several times before it became unbearably hot!
 We saw a fireworks show for 4th of July.
 Jayden earned his first stripe on his new belt. 
 We also got to enjoy a show called "The Night Sky" which was put on by the McAuliffe Shepard Discovery Center. They brought an inflatable planetarium and we learned about different constellations, the planets, and the night sky.

Thursday, July 28, 2016

More June

Our town has an annual "Old Home Day" where they celebrate the town with races, marches, food and other festivities.




For Wild Explores one week, the kids had to help repair something in the house. So Caitlin & Juan worked on painting our bedroom!
Caitlin started volleyball. She loves it!

Jayden is still working hard at guitar. We love listening to him practice songs everyday!

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Early June


Early June was a super busy time, as always.

Jayden and Caitlin finished finished floor hockey. Jayden even scored a goal for his team, which he was super proud of.

Caitlin had her ballet and tap recital. It was a great show!! Caitlin even got invited to join dance team in the fall!
We also went to a Geography World Fair, where we got to learn about (and sample foods from) different places in the world.






 We went strawberry picking as soon as we could!

Our Wild Explorers Club had to make two recipes, so they chose tacos and blueberry muffins.
 We went to the beach several times of course.




Our local library kicked off their summer reading program with a festival. It was after a beach trip so we were hot and tired. But the kids got their faces painted!





Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Wild Explorers Club

Last month one of the assignments for Wild Explorers Club was to taste exotic food.  Many of the Explorers were unsure about this assignment, but they got through it!











The kids tried:
Halvah- Middle Eastern, Kumquats-China, Seaweed Chips-Korean, Kombucha-Japanese (?), Guacamole-Mexican, Fiddle Heads-Native American, Pastitsio- Greece, Arepas & Tostones