Week 7

 Nathan finished up his moon unit by making a space helmet and pretending to walk on the moon.  

We then started his leaf unit.  The 'l' sound is a hard one for him so he hates this unit so far.  Ha!  I think he'll like it more as we go into it.  He drew an apple tree in his book and then we did some leaf collecting on our field trip (pics below).

Finishing up our skeleton unit in science:

Samuel drew this lovely picture of the 2 of us:

Hunter and I tried out our new game, Tenzi:

Lily keeps pretty busy sewing and crafting in her room:

On Saturday, we headed out for a field trip.  We hopped out of the van for a quick picture at the strawberry:

A park was having it's annual heritage days so we stopped in to see what life was like for the pioneers:

Another quick photo at the pink elephant:

This pic just cracks me up.  This was our last picture before we were headed home!

The Effigy Mound National Park was our intended stop and it was pretty busy!  I didn't walk the whole way because I am fighting a cold/cough and found the hike to hurt my chest a bit.  :(

The park had a neat museum area to walk through:

This is Nathan's idea of enjoying nature--he's not so much into the hike part:

Pretty trees!

Great view of the Mississippi River!

And headed back, this was the quiet van:

We collected just a couple leaves for kindergarten and enjoyed driving into a different state for lunch, just for fun.  We went to an arboretum on Sunday to collect even more leaves so we are ready for a new week!