Our butterfly study/Motyle

Elizabeth got this Butterfly Treehouse for her Birthday last year. When we came back from Poland we sent the coupon and and we got live insects.

 

 

 

 

Poland/Polska

Only one more week and I and our three children will be on the continent of Europe. My husband will come for the last three weeks. I haven't been back to Poland in three years. I'm so happy to be able to see my family and friends.

Enjoy the continent video.



Juz za tydzien ja i moje dzieci bedziemy na europejskim kontynencie w Polsce. Moj maz przyleci na ostatnie dwa tygodnie. Ostatni raz bylam w Polsce trzy lata temu. Jestem bardzo szczesliwa, ze odwiedzimy rodzine i przyjaciol.

Happy Birthday, Julia!/Wszystkiego Najlepszego z okaji 5-tych urodzin!

 

Sisters! We took that picture a couple of months ago. Pictures from Julia's 5th Birthday later.

We have had a really good day so far. Julia opened her presents. We had cake and candles. We read the book she got for her Birthday and we all really liked it. Since Daddy has to work tonight we've had a good day with Daddy, too. We did the Montessori Birthday Celebration and we let all three of our children take turns and walk around the sun. It was a wonderful celebration

WE LOVE YOU, JULIA. HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY!!!!!

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Co za wspanialy dzien. Julia otworzyla swoje prezenty. Mielismy ciast i swieczki. Przeczytalismy ksiazke, ktorA Julia dostala na urodziny i bardzo nam sie podobala. Tatus idzie pozniej do pracy, bo ma wieczorny program dotyczacy budzetu, wiec jestesmy wszyscy razem w domu. Co za radosc! Nasza Montessorianska Uroidzinowa Celebracja bardzo sie udala. Pozwolilismy wszystkim dzieciom chodzic wokol slonca. Wspaniale!

KOCHAMY CIE, JULIO! WSZYSTKIEGO NAJLEPSZEGO Z OKAZJI 5-TYCH URODZIN!

Discoveries On Our Journey To Bethlehem... Chapter 1/ Odkrycia w drodze do Betlejem ... Rozdzial 1

It's hard to belive that we only have a few more Advent days left during this Liturgical Year. We have been very busy and ... peaceful. In addition to our regular schoolwork we have been focusing on peace education, which turned out to be one of the greatest treasures this season.

I challenged myself to do all the Christmas presents shopping before the beginning of Advent so that I could spend more time at home rather than beating the crowds at different stores. And what a blessing it turned out to be. It freed my evenings to do a lot of beautiful peace education works. I introduced the PEACE CANDLE. We light it every time we do a work in our peace corner. My two year old son often asks: "Mama, peace candle" and she really enjoys singing This Little Light Of Mine when we light the candle. I also intoduce the PEACE TREE. It is a Norfolk Pine. We decorated it with flowers circles, which I made on the computer, printed them out and threaded some strings in them. They were blank on one side and each family member wrote some of his/her hope on the blank side. We hung them on the PEACE TREE. It turned out to be a wonderful work for us. We have been doing many works. One of my most favorite ones is our PEACE FLAGS. Each one of us got a piece of felt and decorated it so that it reflected the idea of PEACE. We hang them up in our living room so that we can see them everyday.

All of these works provided a lot of descoveries for all of us - discoveries of our feelings, thoughts, experiences, likes and dislikes.

Nasz Adwent okazal sie wspanialym czasem pokoju. Ja zdecydowalam skompletowac wszystkie prezenty Bozonarodzeniowe przed rozpoczeciem Adwentu - Nowego Roku Liturgicznego, abym nie spedzac mojego cennego czasu w kilometrowych kolejkach i tlumach. Tak bardzo sie ciesze z tego osiagniecia, mialam bowiem wiele czasu na edukacje pokojowa w duchu montessori. Jak zawsze zrobilismy wiele projektow. Przedstawilam SWIECZKE POKOJU, ktora bardzo polubil szczegolnie moj dwulatek i prosil mnie, abym ja zapalila i abysmy spiewali This Little Light Of Mine (To Male Moje Swiatelko).

Przedstawilam tez nasze DRZEWKO POKOJU. Udekorowalismy je kwiatkami z brystolu, na ktorych napisalismy nasze nadzieje.

Moja najulubiensza praca tego Adwentu byly FLAGI POKOJOWE. Nauczyly nas wiele o nas samych i naszym pojeciu pokoju. Zawiesilismy je w naszym "salonie". Bardzo lubie na nie patrzec, bo pokazuja mi wiele, o tych z ktorymi mieszkam - moim mezu i dzieciach.