Reading Festival

 

The school had reading festival which included a week of screen free to focus on reading, a goal per day and many different ways to read (above) and many different types of books to read.

Reading festival also included a "Wear Words" dress up day.

And also book character dress up day.... introducing Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh.

A cat from Warrior Cats... Yellow Fang from the book series.

Naomi's 3rd grade class presenting how many hours of reading they did for the 2 weeks. Naomi read 23 hours and 40 minutes, each chain represents one hour.

Daily life in PNG

 

Most Saturday mornings, Jonathan dons an apron and makes pancakes for breakfast!

Just having fun

We volunteer in the nursery to watch the babies up to 3 year olds once a month. Before they come, Jonathan and Naomi get to play with the toys too. :)

Jacob helping Jonathan fix his bike.

Sometimes we get berries at the market! And we gobble them all up!

Everyone got haircuts!

Gingerbread house fun!

 

Every year around Christmas/New Years we enjoy making gingerbread houses together, this time we invited our good friends and neighbor's Steffan and Julie. Fun times!

Christmas!

 

On Christmas morning, the kids are allowed to get up and open their stockings before we wake up. But this time I forgot to tell them how early they were allowed to get up... normally I say that the earliest they can get up is 6:00 am, but instead they were up at 5:15 am! They were excited!!

Then Jacob and I opened our stockings too!

Naomi was very excited to have her own desk finally!

Telling the Christmas story

Bathrobe from Grandma and Grandpa!

Patriots shirts from Grandma and Grandpa!

K'nex from Grandma and Grandpa!

Goodbye holey hockey gloves! Roller hockey will be so much easier now!

Opening Nannie and Poppie's Christmas bags

Christmas dinner and our neighbors, Steffan and Julie.

We gave Jonathan a rack for his bike... Jacob helped him put it on.