Wee lasses and lad

This week we "visited" Ireland. Our main book was Small Beauties about a girl who has to leave Ireland and her grandparents during the potato famine. She saves small beauties in the hem of her dress to take with her, mainly bits and pieces from home. We read a similar book called Katie's Wish so the kids learned a little bit about the somber (to say the least) side of the country's history.

                                             The girls made their own cairns in the yard.

 After they were allowed to move those rocks around, rocks were moved and stacked all over the yard for days : )

 These cuisenaire rods are great for Hannah. She's been working out of the book for awhile and now uses the templates as well.

 On the lighter side of Ireland we read books about St. Patrick's Day and leprechauns. What better fun than to play with Lucky Charms?

                                                 We organized and counted marshmallows.

                                       Then we charted the results. Clovers won by a mile.

 We watched some Lord of the Dance and River Dancing after reading about Irish dance.
Hannah caught onto the steps in an instruction video quite fast. 

                               Chloe felt it was very important to wear rainbow "tap" sandals.
We're off for the next two weeks, completing some fall projects and relaxing- as much as you can with 3 little ones. I've got some fun lessons planned for our return and things are going to be picking up with horn playing, so we'll be super busy soon. We'll enjoy our break for now.