Back to school

Well, it's that time of year again....

The kids had staggered entrances this week. Jonah went on Tuesday afternoon and met his new grade 3 teacher. He's pretty excited about the new books in his classroom and the project they'll be doing on underwater creatures.



Austin went this morning to meet his new grade 6 teacher and is excited about the smart board in the class, as well as the new books.



And Sage went this afternoon and met her new grade 1 teacher. She's just all around excited to be going to school full time.



To start the year off right, I gave each of their teachers an apple pie and a card I made with October Afternoon patterned paper:







Thanks for looking!

Le Festival du Voyageur

Austin's class went on a field trip to le festival du Voyageur yesterday. And of course, I volunteered to go along.

I love going along on his field trips. He has such a great class that I really enjoy connecting with. And I love watching him interact with his friends and take everything in.

I especially enjoyed going to the Festival du Voyageur park in old St. Boniface yesterday. It totally brought back memories of going there on field trips with my school as a kid. And now, Austin's doing the same thing. Kind of a neat thing to connect on.

When we got there, we walked around and looked at the ice sculptures which were amazing.

Then we went to the toboggan run where the kids got to slide down the hill on innertubes.

After that, we had lunch (we brown bagged it!) Then heard an outdoor presentation about transportation in the time of the voyageurs. This was followed by a horse drawn sleigh ride.

Then, the kids enjoyed playing on a large snowhill with a pole with ropes attached to it sticking out of it.

Then we stopped at the Cabane a Sucre (the sugar shack) and saw them make taffy by pouring warm maple syrup on snow and rolling it up on a popsicle stick. This was followed by a presentation of an aboriginal legend of the creation of Lake Manitoba and a craft. After another stop at the washroom, the kids loaded back on to the bus for the ride home to Morden.