Jumpin' June

I seem to do my monthly reviews when the next month is more than halfway over!! Oh well, better late than never :)

June. Jumpin' June. Was it ever a month of jumping - between report card writing, organizing a Play Day for the school, wrapping up curriculum with my students, saying good-bye to them, then packing, packing, packing everything in our school as our school is moving into a new building. Jumpin' June?! I'd say so!! And that was just SCHOOL stuff!! Never mind HOME stuff! But we got through it and I managed to take a few pictures as well.

Play Day - a day where the student body is divided up into teams and they play different team building games as well as track and field challenges. Here are some of the games:

Kids had to pour water from cup to cup till the end of the line, where the last person then filled a pop bottle. The more pop bottles they fill, the more points they get.

 Not too sure how successful these two were, considering they weren't watching what they were doing :)

Spider Web - where each team member needs to go through an opening (that has not been used yet) of the web without touching the sides.

High jump! Keziah did quite well in this event.

 

Water balloon Volleyball - using two bed sheets, they need to pass a water balloon back and forth. The more complete passes, the more points the team gets.

Skis (that Nathan made!!): the team needs to work together to move the skis past 6 pylons. The more pylons you pass, the more points. Very tricky!!

It was a fun day. I was one of the Play Day Committee members, and I managed to put 23, 000 steps on my Fitbit that day! The kids weren't the only ones exhausted that night!

Nathan was gone for a few days and we discovered skype!! That was pretty exciting for the kids. And me :)

We had some marvelous sunsets!

 

 

My dad comes to visit often (when he is not off motorcycling, atving, snowmobiling, traveling etc.), and the kids LOVE it when he reads to them.

Goofball

 

This girl has discovered chapter books!! It's slow going but she is getting there!

The cozier the spot, the better to read!

Keziah found a couple beautiful butterflies on the way home from the bus stop. Aren't they gorgeous?!

 

 

My old classroom, almost done packing!

Lincoln's self portrait :) Not sure about the orange teeth....but everything else is pretty accurate :D

And that was June. It was a busy but fruitful month. Oh, and our basement renos also finished. But that's another post for another time. We are enjoying our summer holidays thus far - enjoying God's creation and all that summer has to offer. I hope you are as well!!