grrrr grrr

O ...what sound does a cat make? ...grrr grrr

O has discovered our books with pictures (real ones, not cartoons) of animals and is really interested. So we have been making the appropriate sounds. Fun for both of us.  So now when he sees a cat he says Poes (cat in Dutch) and grrr grrr .  ..we will continue to practise :-)


Friday we all kids got dressed Dutch style. Or Queen is stepping down ..her son is taking over so all schools organized: The King games ..everyone got dressed up in orange..and they played games in the classroom (it was raining outside). Tuesday we will celebrate the last queens day. As of next year we celebrate Kings day ..hmm still need to get used to that.

 Lot of updates this week...

O is a charmer he gets his friends to do anything!  :-) We had lots of play time outside this week...we are loving it.

 Our milk carton garden...every day the boys check its progress. We talk about the different seeds and the different plants.

 Some of them are growing really fast :-)

K has got art lessons as part of the after school program. They are experimenting with different materials. This week water colors and oil crayons. This is ....a pirate ship in pieces in the water.  :-)

Another great adventure. K and one of his teachers went spawn fishing this week. We have them at home now and their progress is followed by all the kids of our neighborhood.  ..they all felt it  & smelt it. They all come in every day to check on them. Curious about what is going to happen.

 K's drawings now show spawn instead of eggs :-)

 This week K asked me how he could draw a heart. I showed him but he had some trouble so I drew a few hearts with a pencil and he traced them with a felt pen.  ...he loved it and now continues to ask me to draw more hearts :-)

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This week we had a fun surprise @ 7 am!  ...frogs at the playground.  No other kids around yet...just us and Annelies.  We were able to get close and really study them. A few were stuck in the sandbox....so K built a bridge for them so they could get out. We talked about their color, how high they can jump....what the 2 frogs on top of each other were doing...where they were all going ...and what they will do etc etc. The whole frog life cycle was discussed.
K came home with several frog coloring pages and we added them to our spring tree! ....K found a special spot for them ...in the sky! Because that is how high they can jump according to K.

K came home with to big packages of  sidewalk chalk after an afternoon of Bingo at school. He was so proud! You should have seen his smiley face. He had won 3 times. The first price he picked was a ball. And the other 2 prices were the sidewalk chalk.
He had a great time with the chalk. ...according to K it makes the same sound as tiles..but it breaks more easily than tiles. He spent some time with a hammer and the chalk. On Saturday afternoon he took it outside and the neighborhood friends joined in. It was good to see everyone again. It has been a long winter.
At the end of the day he was disappointed that he did not have any chalk to draw anymore. ..but he did like that he had had a good time today with his friends.   ...he had a good time..and found out what happens to chalk when you break it...add water to it etc. ...I have already found a recipe online so he can make his own sidewalk chalk.

We set up a practical life activity for the boys this week. ...sorting and folding socks. K had a great time and I only had to show him once how to fold the socks. O enjoyed the socks too. He was filling up the bowl with socks...and emptying it :-)