Reading

Maya can be found reading ALL the time.  Her current favourie is Bone books.  She also is enjoying reading Marty McQuire. 

Physical Activity

Maya continues to do cirkids. She also enjoyed her Dance Foundations class at the Rogue Dance.  She participated in a final recital where she really new her stuff!  She also love to ride her bike, play catch, badminton, practice her unicycle etc.

Sex Education

Maya went to go hear Meg Hickling to a talk with children about sex education and body awareness.

Horse Back Riding

Maya got to go Horseback Riding for the very first time.  Her best friend Katie invited her for her birthday.  She was so relaxed about it and worked really well with her horse Sarah.

Aquarium & Science World

We continue to make the occasional visit to the Aquarium and Science World.  Maya continues to absorb more and more with being able to read so much!

Cousin Andi

 Maya got to practice her amazing baby holding skills with her cousin Andi.  She then wrote a poem about Andi.

Dissecting a Flower

 We picked a flower.  We then read some books about how flowers grow with the help of bees and pollination.  We then dissected a flower to see all its parts and how what it takes to reproduce itself! Maya then wrote a poem about this. (top)

Lots of Creative Writing

 Making Lists

 Poems about Math

 Spy writing.  Maya wrote down all movements of her sister and friend with her friend Graham!

 This is Maya's poem Journal.

 Poem about her best Friend Katie

 Mother's Day Poem

 Poem about her family.

Poem about Swimming.

Violin

Maya still is playing the Violin!  Her audience is very revealing how much they like her music!

Reifel Bird Santuary

 Below was a spontaneous foot circle at the Reiflel Bird Sancturary

Turning 7!

 Maya turned 7!  She decided to write a poem about it.

Earth Day

 For Earth Day the Girls made some Earth Day art and thought of one thing they would like to do each to help the earth. 

East Side Story Guild

Maya LOVED her drama group.  She was a "minion" in the play and represented several emotions in her role.  She graduated from her first level as an Apprentice.  She also had her very first group sleepover with her drama group!

Field trip to the Art Studio

Our neighbour Louise invited to come and visit her Art Studio that is in the neighbourhood.  The girls got to see her art, where she creates and then they created a little art!

Measuring with Lego

 We read two books: "Me and the Measure of Things" & "Inch by Inch."  We then took two different size pieces of lego and tried to find things in our house that were about the same size.  Maya then created her own 12" ruler with the piece of lego that was about 1" long. 

Backyard Discoveries

 Both Maya and Norah love to explore our great backyard.  They found a slug and its eggs (we think).  Below Maya started her own weed garden to see which weed grows the fastest. 

Nature experiment

We did a bug experiment.  We read the book "What lives under a stone".  Inspired by the book we wanted to attract some bugs that live under stones. So we put some turkey meat and jam in some glass jars and buried them at ground level with a rock on top as the lid.  We waited 24 hours and then went to see what was living under our stone.  The girls mostly discovered ants and wood bugs.

Maya wrote a poem about What lives Under a Stone!

Bowen Island

Ballet

Maya and Norah are enjoying their Dance Foundation Class.  They are learning some ballet, tap, and hip hop.

Reading Reading Reading

Maya's world has opened up to her in so many new ways with her reading really taking off.  She can be found many times throughout the day reading a book or reading Eleah or Norah a book. Some of her favourite things to read have been books about  birth, rock books, Charlotte's web, Joke books and whatever the latest books we have from the library.  We practice reading together and she has moved away from sounding out words to just memorizing and reading them.  Very Exciting for her and for all of us to watch her reading grow! 
Maya also ejoys listening to recorded stories.  Every morning she listens to a Magic Tree House or Beverly Clearly book while colouring a new picture or practicing printing. 

Aquarium & Science World

We have enjoyed some trips to the Aquarium and Science World.  Maya given the choice will always choose Science World.  This year Science World has become much more interesting to Maya as she can now read a lot of the displays.  We have been trying to practice our map reading at both places to navigate the various displays.

Sewing

Maya initiated her own sewing to fix a hole in her pants.  She used her own sewing kit

Maplewood Farm

We took Eleah to Maplewood Farm for the first time.  All three girls really loved feeding the bunnies.  They liked the lettuce the most!

Rocks

We set up a rock display with Story books, factual books, rocks, photos, dictionary etc.  Maya picked out the books she was interested in reading together.  She like the factual books the most.  This lead us to do a rock experiment together about how sedimentary rocks are formed.  We also did made homemade volcanoes to see how volcanic rocks are formed.  Maya was so intrigued by this all she wrote a poem about rocks and then took a trip to the library to take more books out about rocks!