Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Math at a snail's pace




We played counting games and had snail races as we caught more and more snails on the crab traps.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

JP Licks...

When we got home from Boston Johanna wanted to write a letter to Jp Licks .
It was a painstaking ordeal b/c writing is not her favorite thing to do and she struggles with letters like, "S" and "W". Also the letter, she was writing, needed to have punctuation, which isn't really something we have gone over at all.
I wish I had taken a picture of the letter but I did not. Anyway, she wrote and told them how much she liked the ice cream and she asked a question about the decoration tea cup ride which you could sit in but it said, "Please do not spin". Johanna was curios about this b/c it didn't spin anyway so she wanted to know why it said that.


Well can you believe that wonderful Josh over at JP Licks wrote her back? A very nice handwritten letter. He thanked her and explained that the tea cup used to be an old ride. We didn't actually get the answer to her question but it was first and foremost so kind of them to write her back.
I am so impressed that I want to tell everyone who heads off to Boston to please stop by JP Licks and enjoy some nice homemade ice cream!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Make way for us!!




I don't remember how old Johanna was when we got the book, Make way for ducklings but I do know that right after reading it, for the first time, I thought, "Hey this would make a great field trip!"
...and it did!
It was a day trip many years in the making. Everytime I read that book I planned in my head going to Boston and following the route of the ducklings. The funny thing is I didn't realize that many people before me had the same idea.




Finally my kids were at an age to appreciate the "tour" I had someone willing to come along and help navigate.
I was thrilled to learn that there would statues of almost all the ducks; Mrs. Mallord, Jack, Kack, Lack,Mack, Nack ,Oack, Pack and of course quack!
No Mr. Mallord though and we assume it is b/c he did not take the same trip.
The kids quacked up Mt Vernon street and we all thought better of trying to cross over to the Charles river since we would now be crossing a 4 lane highway. Mrs. Mallord at least had some help from officer Micheal. We just pointed and said, "this is where they crossed"

Our nagging question since reading book was, "Do ducks really eat peanuts?" In NJ they are always fed bread so we brought peanuts nd do you know what? Boston ducks love peanuts! They would eat them right out of our hands. (We did learn later we were not supposed to feed the ducks but we honestly did not know it at the time)




We rode the swan boats and ate JP licks ice cream (Oh wait that wasn't in the book)
I am so thrilled that this trip came to frution.
Since it rained the 2nd day we only saw Paul Revere's house and The old Norht church (And a really cool automated port a potty) but by then the kids were soaked and really done walking around in the rain.
this is a trip I defiently plan on doing again..who's with me! Quack!!

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