Thailand

Okay...so we were a little weak on our studies of Thailand. The library did not have a single book on the country...not a fairytale, not a cookbook. So we spent a lot of time online, which was actually very entertaining. We watched many puppet shows and traditional dances with the Thai fingers which gave us exposure to the art, music and dress as well. We looked at the many temples and beautiful architecture of Thailand which is stunning. The thing that grabbed the guys interest was this travel blog outlining some of the do's and dont's when traveling in Thailand. We also had a great meal with our friends at a local Thai restaurant followed by presentations in the park on a beautiful fall day. I guess our studies on Thailand weren't so weak afterall.

Geography Club: Israel

Backing up a month! Last month our geography co-op studied Israel. After gather quite a large quantity of books from the library, the boys seem to both be interested in the subject of kibbutzim. It was interesting. The subject led us to other topics, I didn't think we would be touching on just yet: Socialism, Communism, Zionism (lots of ism-s), community and the importance of agriculture. So, we did a project together, it seemed fitting, and put together a diorama.

Today's Lego project

Dinoland at Zilker Park

Today the boys and I decided to hit the traveling exhibit Dinoland before it left Zilker Park Botanical Gardens. This has been an intense week so I felt like a field trip was in order; they chose it over park day with friends. I believe the older guys learned quite a lot, as they took time to talk to the people that were there to discuss such things. And I heard them interjecting their own dino-knowledge too! In fact, Cisco was telling me about one creation from a distance saying it wasn't really a dinosaur at all, it was confirmed by the time we reach the exhibit. Oh, Discovery Channel! Anyway, Cisco and Leo were debating the use of this particular creature's sail with dinoland man. I was keeping Santiago from going beyond the guard rails. Those dinosaurs looked good enough to touch, reasoned my two year old! So his lesson for the day was not of dinosaurs exactly but of boundaries. Because there was also this very tempting wagon that we kept running into as well.

Afterwards, lunch and a quick sqeeze from Daddy at Whole Foods. Then home again, home again, jiggety jig.