Tuesday we went north about an hour and a half and saw the Gilboa tree fossils, then hunted for fossils at a site on the side of the road. An excellent site as you can't help but find fossils!
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| At the Gilboa Fossil Site |
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| A fossil of a tree stump! |
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| At our fossil collecting site. It was a tad hot. |
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| Heat did not stop the big kids from exploring and looking for trilobites (we never found any). |
Wednesday meant going to Dance with Emily, a walk on the Rail Trail with Friends, and a Book Club meeting at the Stone Ridge Library. They discussed The Miraculous Journey of Edward Toulane.
Thursday was Math, English and Reader's Theater. This is also at the Stone Ridge Library and run by Julianna. The kids practiced and made costumes and line changes, then they put on the play, seated, reading from scripts, but enunciating with feeling. The Big Blank Wolf: the day the Big Bad Wolf forgot his middle name. It was really cute.
Friday was the first Zoology class that we have made it to at the Forsyth Nature Center. It turns out that the kids are putting together a newsletter, and Luke volunteered to do the Rules and Procedures section, and Emily will do Births and Deaths. The Forsyth Nature Center is a great little zoo in Kingston with animals that they encourage you to feed with goodies like lettuce and carrots that you can bring. They have peacocks, ducks, a sheep, a bull, deer, goats, a pot bellied pig, chickens, rabbits, turtles, tortoises, guinea fowl, parakeets, finches, and an apiary I haven't been near. They have a beautiful pond there they put in a year or two ago with a boardwalk to see it from. Seems like the programs are really pretty good, too! So we'll see if I can get these ratscallion kids to do their homework!
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