Gavin and Austin continue to want to love on their little sister!  I guess there are worse problems to have.  Yesterday when I went in to get Adelaide up both her brothers were in her crib with her!  But, she seemed happy so I guess she doesn't mind sharing her crib!

Later in the day, Adelaide hung out in her play gym for a while.

Gavin made a resurrection garden.  I found this idea on Pinterest.  If you haven't been on Pinterest yet, I highly recommend it!  Anyway, he added his garden soil.

Then placed a few succulents inside and the tomb (potato).  It's not as easy to hollow out a raw potato as you might think...

Then he added garden stones.

Austin helped him fill in the garden with dried moss.

Here is the finished product...

We put it on our kitchen table.  On Friday we will close the 'stone' and on Sunday we will roll the stone away.  Hopefully our potato won't be completely rotten by then.  If it is, we will just replace our tomb with a fresh one!

When we finished that garden Austin helped me plant my geraniums.

As much as we enjoyed our break, it was back to school today.  Austin is working more with letters even though he can't identify them all by name yet.

Gavin seems to have misplaced Frog and Toad so today he started 'The Adventures of Arthur'.

Austin matched the bodies of reptiles (dinosaur, alligator, snake and turtle) with the correct head.

Then he colored baby dinosaurs and their eggs and glued the bottom of the egg to the bottom of the dinosaur.  I attached the top of the egg with a brad so you can 'hatch' the dinosaur.  Austin really liked this but I couldn't get him to hold it so that I could get a good picture!

Gavin is still learning how to make numbers on the back of his abacus, which includes hundreds and thousands.

Gavin finished all the pieces of his dinosaur lapbook today so we will put it together on Wednesday.  We read two books about paleontologists, one that specifically talked about finding dinosaur eggs.  I just so happened to find in the clearance section at Michaels last summer an egg with a dinosaur inside that also came with a hammer, chisel and brush.  So, Gavin hammered and chiseled away to find his dinosaur inside the egg.  This was much harder then I thought it was going to be but he worked at it for about 30 minutes and finally got through the egg and found his dinosaur!

Here is the dinosaur almost out!

A little more brushing off of the sand...

and he had a baby ankylosaurus!  He was very excited!  I couldn't get a good picture because he would not hold still!

These are the books we read today.

We are about done with dinosaurs!  I think from now to the end of Kindergarten we will just enjoy being outside when we can and read about plants and animals.

Our artist for this month is Georgia O'Keefe.  We don't have a composer yet. 

Our Bible verse is Psalm 146.

"Praise the Lord.  Praise the Lord, O my soul.

I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save.

When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;

on that day their plans come to nothing.

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,

whose hope is in the Lord his God, the Maker of heaven and earth,

the sea, and everything in them -

the Lord, who remains faithful forever.

He upholds the cuase of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry.

The Lord sets prisoners free, the Lord gives sight to the blind,

the Lord lifes up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous.

The Lord watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and widow,

but He frustrates the ways of the wicked.

The Lord reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations.  Praise the Lord!"

We are still doing Bible in the mornings as well we just aren't reading through the Old Testament anymore.  Our church is going through the Gospel of John with the kids and has been sending home a Bible Study to go with what they are learning in Sunday School so we have been doing that instead. 

Here is our poem for the month:

The Second-Hand Shop

by Rowena Bennett

Down in the grasses

Where the grasshoppers hop

And the katydids quarrel

And the flutter-moths flop -

Down in the grasses

Where the beetle goes "plop"

An old withered fairy

Keeps a second-hand shop.

She sells lost thimbles

For fairy milk pails

And burnt-out matches

For fence posts and rails.

She sells stray marbles

To bowl on the green,

And bright scattered beads

For the crown of a queen.

Oh don't feel badly

Over things that you lose

Like spin tops or whistles

Or dolls' buckled shoes;

They may be things that

Fairy folks can use;

For down in the grasses

Where the grasshoppers hop

A withered old fairy

Keeps a second-hand shop.