Lumpster and Rootie-Toot are our new best friends. We rented the Heffalump Movie from the library a couple weeks ago... took it back and rented their other copy the same day! The girls are trying to memorized the movie so that they can act it out for us! And Lijah just kicks his legs and laughs out loud at the part where they're in Rabbits garden! New favorite movie... I think we'll be singing the Hundred Acre Woods song this summer!
We also started the book Because of Winn Dixie thinking we'd read it for our summer book and then have a popcorn/movie party at the end of the summer... the thing is, we're already halfway through the book! June. Page 91 and there's 182 pages! Half way today! The kids are excited to finish it up so we can read a Little House on the Prairie book!
Benjamin decided he would read Sugar Creek Gang. Hannie's working on the Janette Oke books Animal Friends. Ruth's reading all our Dr. Seuss. And Lijah said HE is reading all the Veggie books! Off we go...
I just finished the Roxanne Henke book Becoming Olivia. I've read the first two in her Coming Home to Brewster series, too. (About small town ND...) And I saw Kev pulled out our Narnia books after we saw Prince Caspian.
Oh yeah, I'm also working on the book The Way They Learn by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias. About different learning styles. Our kids are already noticeably different. Benjamin loves to be organized and to know the plan - spend time together. Hannie loves to give gifts and is always thinking of what she can give or make for someone. Ruthie is always doing... feeling, touching, hands-on. Lijah, we're still figuring out. He's 3 1/2 so he's just into getting dirty and running mostly! He can peddle his bike now! Whoo! Anyway, the book talks about the different ways they learn... go figure. So I thought I should read it to know more how to teach these different kiddos of ours! I'm about halfway through... we're all strongest in different styles. We'll learn a lot from each other!
