The Birthday Month

We are now in the midst of birthday month in the East household. That combined with a beautiful spring have lead to little formal schooling, lots of work, and a huge amount of outdoor play!

I think we've managed to fit in one week's worth of curriculum in the past month, but we've worked on baking and icing cakes, designing cakes, making birthday presents, looked at the calendar every day, and have learned how to act in social situations :) We've also had dentist and doctor appointments where we have seen x-rays and have talked about lots of science!

And like I said, plenty of outside time! The girls have been outside at least 6 hours every day, and sometimes more than that. They have been reading nature books and finding things in our yard, pioneer books and pretending to be pioneer children and thinking of what games they may have played, and have caught butterflies. We also got to witness flying ants come out of the colony and take flight yesterday!

We are also trying to plan a field trip/vacation, and we are thinking maybe Washington, DC. I'm also thinking that might be too much and we might do better to do something in the mountains. We'll see where that takes us.