It's been hot this summer so we've been doing lots of swimming to cool off. We are so thankful to have a first floor apartment with a small yard so we can have a small swimming pool. The kids love it! This summer has been quite hot, but not as bad (yet) as last summer, where we had a heat wave that lasted about a month with no breaks. Usually it gets hot for a week, then cools down for a few days, and then gets hot again, etc... Most of the kids' friends are either away on trips, stay at home because it's too hot, or are in extra summer classes (which is super common here), so they are bored. We decided to start school a bit early because of it. This way, we'll take a more breaks here and there. For the summer we might not always have a full week of school either. This week the boys have a sleepover at a friend's house so we're not doing school that day.
I also recently finished a book: Birds of Africa For Kids. Here's the description:
Follow a hoopoe bird as he travels to visit his cousin to see the birds in South Africa and then as his cousin visits him to see the birds in the middle part of Africa. Later he goes to Egypt and his cousin goes to Madagascar to see the birds that live there. Included are stories about 20 birds that live in Africa including the ostrich, the grey crowned crane, the go-away bird, the African penguin, the flamingo, the shoebill, and many more. There’s also a resource section at the back.
It's available on the INK Website (www.inknewspaper.net) and will soon be available on the Living Book Press.
