Another Summer Week has come and gone.
We spent our days;
- Painting with Sidewalk paint
- Building with Lego
- Making forts
- Crafting
​- Doing puzzles
- Blasting off a baking soda and vinegar rocket, after figuring out how to build a launch pad for it
- Throwing frisbees in the field
- And of course when it's nice out, it's pretty exciting to have a picnic lunch!

Happy Canada Day! We sure do love our country! 
 
The kids are especially fascinated with the Canadian flag, so naturally we had to learn about the maple tree where the maple leaf comes from. We are very fortunate to have a maple tree down the street to look at. The owner of this maple tree also told us how the leaves change colour in the fall. That was quite exciting. We also learned how maple trees are tapped for its’ sap that is then turned into maple syrup. 
 
We enjoyed trying to sing to national anthem. The kids are adorable when they try to sing a song that they are not 100% familiar with.
 
We also learned a bit about Canadian money, particularly the coins although they did get to look at our ‘paper’ money as well. “Canada In My Pocket” is a song I remember from my childhood and they seem to enjoy it too. We talked about why the we don’t use the penny anymore, since that was the one with the maple leaf on it and they sure do like those. We learned about all of the symbols on Canadian coins and were particularly interested in the beaver. We learned about beavers’ teeth, what they use to build their dams, how they build their dams, what they do inside their dams, etc.