Before we went, she watercolour painted these for her cousins and grandparents.
We love this polar bear RCMP at our airport.
While we were in Ontario, we did some nature study about this Honey Locust (and many other things).
Fina always loves the ROM.
the subway station at the ROM
We found this cool exhibit with lots of paintings by Norval Morrisseau (the painter of Fina's favourite painting from the WAG, from when she was little)
One of Norval Morrisseau's painting
We went to the Chrysanthemum Show, which is always fun to see!
We visited Parliament Hill and learned a lot about our government. We were able to attend Question Period and saw our Prime Ministers and MPs "collaborate." We were unable to get any pics of that, as we had to go through security and had to check our devices. Security is taken very seriously at Parliament Hill.
Centere Block
The East Block (our library has a flag that flew there)
The Rotunda
Grandma taught Fina how to knit! She really enjoyed that.
Fina climbed grandma's fir tree.
And, later, nonna's maple tree
She planted one of the seeds/beans from the Honey Locust, and, within a few weeks, we had this!
We finished reading Clyde Robert Bulla's A Lion to Guard Us as part of our historical fiction. The story is really captivating and both Fina and I enjoyed it!
We took advantage and had both sets of grandparents tell Fina a bit about their lives, when they were kids, looking through photo albums etc.
As of October 31, we completed our third year of the 1000HoursOutside challenge. Fina hit 1338.5 hours outside from November 1 2016. (On Oct 31 2016, she was at 1384 and in 2015, she hit 1084). I'm not going to keep track anymore. I think we've got it!
And we came home to this!
We started reading through Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (we saw that play a few months ago). We listened to an audio version. I think I might alternate the audio version with my reading aloud.
While we were away, I picked up a bunch of books at a big used book sale. I found three of the McGuffey Eclectic Primer Reading Series, so she started reading one of those today.
We took advantage and had both sets of grandparents tell Fina a bit about their lives, when they were kids, looking through photo albums etc.
As of October 31, we completed our third year of the 1000HoursOutside challenge. Fina hit 1338.5 hours outside from November 1 2016. (On Oct 31 2016, she was at 1384 and in 2015, she hit 1084). I'm not going to keep track anymore. I think we've got it!
And we came home to this!
We did our lessons today. Fina did two drawing lessons with chalk pastels. And some watercolour painting "from her imagination" as well.
reeds
poppy
While we were away, I picked up a bunch of books at a big used book sale. I found three of the McGuffey Eclectic Primer Reading Series, so she started reading one of those today.
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