Last week Becky chaperoned a group for Ally’s first grade field trip to the Aquarium. The saw the I.MAX movie first.
Then it was on to the sharks and ray touch tank.
posing for a group shot with Melyna (on crutches) Bleuet, Ally and Clara photo-bombed the picture behind Ally.
Becky said one of the neatest things was that the girls could read the signs. Ally really enjoyed the sign about Penguins and all the different sizes and types.
The giant main 3 story tank is always a highlight.
Ally stayed home sick from school recently. I stayed home with her. I can actually work and get a lot done from my computer at home.
After a few TV shows in the morning. We started working on puzzles. The first one we did came from a 2nd hand shop, and it was shrink wrapped in the box, can you see Ally’s disappointment that it was missing so many pieces?
We did a 2nd puzzle (I forgot to take a picture of it finished) and then it was time for medicine.
We played 3 games of Sleeping Queens (I won 2 out of 3).
Then it was time for shower and lunch.
While I made lunch Ally worked on a drawing. She drew her view from her seat at the dining room table. She was really proud of how she made the chair and the table.
After lunch she watched the movie Frozen (for the 6th time) while I worked. After that she played solo for quite a while so I could get more work done, and then when mama came home the two of them played some games.
Ally is such a good kid.
I volunteered to help out in Ally’s classroom today (along with 14 other parents and grandparents) to assist the 25 first graders with making paper mache projects. They are learning about Antarctica and next week will be giving oral presentations on a subject they chose. They are group projects – Ally chose Emperor Penguin (Oscar and Jaylinne are her fellow “experts”) other topics are; the albatross, a skua (a bird), the blue whale, and 2 kinds of seals. Then a couple students chose an Icebreaker Boat – pretty neat!
Here are some pictures of the day:
Ally with her animal “structure” it’s a small plastic juice bottle for the body, a tiny balloon for the head, all taped together with 2 cardboard wings and 2 cardboard feet.
Then it was time to apply the paper mache. Ally and Jaylinne were dip the paper in the mache material, Oscar’s mom Monique is demonstrating how you “slide the paper thru your fingers to make sure there is not too much on the paper strip. Then we would apply the strip and smooth it out.
Elena is holding up the Albatross before it was paper mached (left) and then 2 parents and Bleuet are working on a seal.
Its hard to see but at left is the Skua bird, and then on the right is Ally’s baby emperor penguin. She is very proud of it.
Eric worked on the team that did the icebreaker boat. It was huge!
It was a really fun time. I had never paper mached before and was a bit nervous about it. But the animals turned out pretty good.
It was a beautiful Saturday, and so Ally and I headed out to the zoo.
Ally posed at the big gorilla statue. Then she spotted the playground! She ran ahead (and stopped to wait for me to catch up).
It was so warm – 60 degrees and sunny. Ally had a blast climbing, sliding, exploring.
Turns out she is too tall for these monkey bars!
Swinging is always fun.
Then we moved on to the zebras.
Its actually the zebra and giraffe habitat, but its too cold for giraffes, but Ally climbed up to the top of the lookout.
We saw lots of eggs in the hen house, the lion asleep as usual.
Then we entered the rainforest habitat and saw the tapirs. I always think they are pretty funny looking.
And of course the gorillas. The mommy gorilla was right in the corner next to Ally, and the baby was keeping us amused with his antics. He even climbed the wall right in front of Ally, and then would fall down – run away to something else and come back and do it again. Ally was enthralled. We stayed and observed them for about 20 minutes.
Always so much fun at the zoo.
In English weeks Ally is learning about Antarctica. That is her teacher posing with her under the banner to the 1st grade classrooms. This week they went to the Aquarium to see a penguin movie and the penguins. In a couple of weeks they are doing a special presentation.
Ally is very excited.
Ally loves the movie Frozen. I confess we have taken her to see it 3 times in theater! It came out for digital download last week and Ally wanted to see it with her friend Olive. (Ally thought Olive had not seen it – as it turns out she had, but with her grandma over vacation.) So we invited Olive and her parents over for a Frozen movie screening.
It was supposed to be a pajama play date, with breakfast for dinner. Ally was so excited for them to arrive.
Thanks to Pinterest I found out how to make pancakes into the shape of one of the characters, the snowman Olaf. Becky as usual executed it perfectly!
They were a big hit with the girls.
Who settled right in to watch the movie after dinner.
