Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Kiva Loan March 2011

This month we loaned to:

Oleg from Ukraine
Oleg needed the loan to buy eggs for his egg-hatching business.


Monday, March 14, 2011

she's a nest box builder

Olivia went to a class at the nature center where she learned about bluebirds, and other nesting birds.  At the end of class they  built their very own bluebird nest box!

OLIVIA'S PHOTO HERE

Learning languages...

The girls have recently been interested in learning different languages.  I speak a little spanish, french, and know basic sign language. Georgia wants to learn Brazilian Portuguese, and Olivia wants to learn South American Spanish. I'll have to look up some resources for them, but I wanted to add a couple here so I can find them later...

Portuguese

 

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Natural Disasters

After hearing about the earthquake in Japan yesterday, the girls and I watched some news footage on tv, looked at some videos on the internet, then learned more about natural disasters.

Here are some sites we checked out: