This past Sunday we enjoyed a day trip at Lake James State Park. The gems really enjoyed playing on the "beach" area of the park. They played in the water and sand all day! I could not get over how they were so content, and never got tired! I enjoyed laying in the sun and relaxing! We all got alot of sun! We also had a picnic and had lots of blueberries and strawberries to eat! And I loved the fact that by the time we got home the inside of our van had just about as much sand in it as out there on that beach! ;'O
School-wise, we finished Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos by Robert Lawson and continued to read in Robert Louise Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses during our poetry reading time. The gems also completed a page of penmanship each day. I am so proud of Emerald, this is the first time that she had done any formal penmanship, and her writing was very neat and she really concentrated at the task at hand. I was impressed that she was so glued to it! She must be really enjoying it because on Sunday evening after our day trip, she requested to do a page! She also is continuing to do wonderfully in her reading!




