Pictures- W in the W and Rakhi

We LOVED the Phantom Tollbooth!
Kamie is showing our new choice for our daily reading: The Wind in the Willows
Hey.. LOOK they both have maps inside the front and back covers.

During our reading today the kids could illustrate as I read. Kamie and Catherine chose to do this activity. The others listened quietly, colored in coloring books (which we hardly ever do) and created more bracelets with yarn.
This is Kamie's illustration. Notice the tree with the face, the house next to it and Rat. I think she did a great job.

This is one of 10 fast sketches Catherine did as I was reading. I think she captured the expresions of Mole and Rat really great to be such a quickly drawn artwork.

Yesterday we made the rakhi. While studying our Ancient Indian History we learned about different traditions that the people in India have. This is one tradition. We modified it a bit, but the kids had a great time making these for each other. Below see information I found on the internet:
"Sisters tie a red thread or nowadays more ornately decorated bracelets, around the wrists of their brothers. This thread symbolizes the affectionate sibling relationship between them." While tying the rakhi, sisters chant the lines from the text they memorize and believe this will protect them from evil spirits. We discused different aspects of that and what we believe.


Here is on close up. We just used yarn. It worked great.

Here are the kids with them on.

Today was also filled with a bit of emails back and forth to my friends in Tiawan. I downloaded Google Earth and showed the kids our house, Taylor, Kamie, and Kalebs house and then showed them Tiawan. Its was great. Google Earth is amazing.

I think we will really enjoy the Wind in the Willows..had a few words I had to edit.. but it was not a big deal.

I am off to update Jo's blog.. he is sitting here waiting.. :)