Cabane a sucre in our town!

We took an easy (read not at all) school day on Friday, spending a lot of time doing some free reads. We read William Steig's Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and The Amazing Bone. We also started reading the third book in the Sarah, Plain and Tall series by Patricia MacLachlan called Caleb's Story.  And we continued with The Wizard of Oz.

Fina also spent a lot of time drawing and playing. And she spent many hours outside, enjoying the sunshine and fresh air. Wearing shorts and a t-shirt. She stayed out playing with our little neighbour friend until 9pm. They LOVE being outside in the stillness and dark. (Fina did put on a fleece sweater and pants once the sun went down!)

On Saturday, we had our town's Maple Syrup Festival and we spent the day enjoying maple syrup products, exploring the museum, witnessing historical re-enactments, visiting an old fashioned house and eating baked goods coming right out of the wood stove, going on a horse drawn wagon ride, churning some butter, watching a lady carding and spinning alpaca wool, listening to Manitoban story tellers, playing with our friends and having lots and lots of tire sur la neige. We live in a wonderful town! We had a great time today!