I thought I’d give a bit of a look at what we have been doing for the summer.

Sage has taken an interest in Native American life and especially the horses. So, we have been reading about them and we just started a teepee project together. I am trying to figure out what to make the teepee out of, we’re brainstorming together. She has been making eleborate horse villages where the horses take on all the traits of real horses and combine them with some humna charachteristics.

The library has been our best friend lately, and the baby has even stopped ripping all the books off the shelves every visit! Today there were some new summer-help library staff in the children’s library. I was so greatful, since our library apparently has a policy to only hire the dour, rude or shy type of librarians. I especially like the ones who when they find out you homeschool, can no longer meet your gaze without disdain. At least the younger ones are nice and happy to help.

Torin found a book today called Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs. It’s not our usual fare, but it cracked me up because the title was so obviously a draw for the “boys’ boy”. I mean pirate dinosaurs? why not just have them all collect bugs first and then fly into space… I think we’ll have covered all the ‘boy’ bases then. A sure best seller.

Rhys has even jumped on the book bandwagon this summer. Of course her interest is more of the obsessive “read..me…read..me….boooooooookkkkkk!” type. Her current favorite is One Moose Twenty Mice book from Barefoot Publishing. And it’s actually not a bad choice for reading oh, 100 times a day.

At least I can’t blamethe kids obsiession with books on anyone but myself. Tonight I’ll start a review list of Must-Reads. I’m a bit obsessed myself!

~jo

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