March Field Trip: USS Iowa

When my grandparents were out in March, we headed out to explore the USS Iowa docked at Long Beach. The boys absolutely loved it! Guns and missiles have factored heavily into all subsequent play, especially with tinker toys and blocks. Almost three months later, the pamphlets from the trip still travel with us in the car on occasion.

Elijah's requested copywork sentence on our next school day

If you are in the area, it's a neat ship to tour!

March Snapshots

I'll pretend like I'll someday catch-up (Paris, Josiah's Birthday, etc.), so here are some snapshots from back in March:

Playdough with trucks and trains, of course

Bath tub fingerpainting

Josiah's first representational painting: Train Tracks!

Puzzle time!

Beautiful Finches

Audio books were a hit this month: reading along and listening to "Katy and the Snow" by Virginia Lee Burton

Tanaka Farm's Subscriber Day

Wagon ride at Tanaka Farms

More reading and listening: "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel"

Bee Swarm at the park: The worker bees are protecting the queen while the scouts look for a new hive

Knott's Berry Farm train (Elijah's reading the map)

Re-enacting the show we watched at Knott's Berry Farm

Reading with babies

Puppet Show Time!

Lots of various tents were built

Josiah loved going outside to spend a bit of time painting; here he is painting a door