Brown Owls

We've been taking a bit of a break due to summer colds, but we'll be back soon with a book review and some snow globes.

In the meantime, here are some owls we've come across recently in our travels:

Owls and nests by the K 1/2 class at Charles Dicken Elementary and a brown owl cardigan adapted from the Owlet pattern by Kate Davies.

Edited to add one more owl, this time one for Auggie, with button eyes:

Reed Boat

After working on Foggy, we've collected many different schemes to make a boat. Over the summer we'll be posting a few more.

Here is a very cool boat made out of a reed leaf. Would you like to make one? Take a look over here...

We'll be posting more again next week.

(Image from Lap(fen)lander's Natural Lore blog).

Puppet Theatre

Here is a beautiful rainy day project for the kids.

Bloesem Kids and June crafts have put together templates for a puppet theatre to colour in and download. Find the links here. We made ours using a shoe box, which made it very stable and easy to use.

This is very inspiring!

You could take pictures and use them to make a book....

The Teachers' Holidays

The Teachers' Holidays(PDF link) was written and photo-illustrated by the children in Division 1 and 2 at Charles Dickens Elementary after reading Foggy.

It begins: One June morning, all the kids in Karen, Jen, and Wendy's classes were looking forward to summer. The kids began to imagine what the teachers might do on their holidays....