Exhausted!!

Abby fallen asleep in the car on her way home form a sleepover last week - she had had her hair done by her friends big Sister and had also had her make-up done too!! She slept over at her friend Jenna's house.

Colouring with friends

Colouring with a group of friends at MP after swimming yesterday....

Art classes continue....

Abigails art classes continue....she has taken a print making workshop and a water colour workshop. Above are the watercolour paintings she created. She is really enjoying the classes and will be sad when they end. Her last class is 'fibre arts'.

This week we also have the SHINE park day and will sign up to join SHINE for the next year. Abigail is also signed up to go to camp for a week this Summer - a weeks worth of day camp which includes horse riding (all she wants to do lately)!!

Busy in the kitchen.....

Baking cakes, icing them and chopping rhubarb!!! Abigail is enjoying our new kitchen and turning into a great little chef....

Scenes from the last week....

Homeschooling is officially done for the year BUT we've been busy with having friends over to play, swimming, walks together, catching frogs, worms, caterpillars.....skipping, watching thunder storms, painting bat caves, climbing on old trains, making Mothers Day gifts, planting sunflowers, playing at the playground, reading, shopping for herself and budgeting for gifts, ordering for herself in restaurants.....

Bendy!!

Instead of ordering butterfly eggs this year, we decided to just hunt for caterpillars and raise them from caterpillars. Next year we will order the eggs again. Abigail and Sam have found one caterpillar so far and we aren't sure what kind this one is, so after a lot of researching in books and online we've given up trying to find out, and hope to find out if and when it turns into a butterfly or moth!!!

We found this GREAT website though:

insects.about.com/od/keepingliveinsects/ss/rearingcats_2.htm

which includes information on how to look after a caterpillar if you aren't sure what kind it is!!! they have named this one 'Bendy' and he is living in a huge old pickle jar. We have several books on butterflies, bugs, caterpillars etc etc - as well as some story books about them, so we've been enjoying those too - as well as some activity sheets and things that we found online, so Bendy has turned into an all-round project for us!

We'll take more pictures if he survives long term and grows and develops! He's been surviving for about 4 days now so all is good :) PHEW!!!!

Head dresses...

We decided to make Native Indian Head dresses after seeing Stabbed-By-Mistake's Head Dress at the Royal Alberta Museum.

More acrylics painting...

Abigail worked on some more acrylics painting - this time at home!!! She remembered exactly what she was taught at the class and she ONLY bought acrylics in the primary colours as well as in black and white - she then set about mixing all the other colours herself and got the shades and tones she wanted by mixing with black and white. She refused to use any of the paints I had but ONLY the paints she bought and by mixing them :)

She spent most of the time mixing paint colours and I think this is the part she liked the most :)

Art class work

Acrylics colour wheel and canvas, and charcoals self portrait and horse.....

(work from the first two art classes Abigail has been to. She has really enjoyed these classes.