Habitats

Josie is very interested in animals.  A new favorite show is The Wild Kratts on PBS.  One of the things they talk a lot about is animal habitats.  One day while playing with her stuffed animals she decided that she would categorize them by habitats.  She decided that she had the following habitats: forest (woods), ocean, rainforest, African savanah, farm, and castle (okay the last two are not technically habitats  and as you can see there is a unicorn the farm but she is still only 4 years old).  I made her signs to put with each habitat and she had fun sorting for quite a long time.  My favorite part of our conversation is when she got to her Mickey Mouse and said that mice are in people's houses so she would put him in a castle with Belle.  Of course Ariel had to be in the ocean habitat. Here are a few examples for your amusement.



A Budding Artist

At the Pear Fair this year a local artist had a tent set up for art lessons or just painting.  Josie loves to paint so she wanted to participate.  The artist (Martha) asked her what she wanted to paint and Josie said a pear.  Martha offered to draw an outline for her to follow but Josie said, "No, I can do it myself."  The day before she and I had painted some pears and we had talked about mixing colors and the shape of pears so she was ready to try it out.  I think for the $5.00 it cost we got a pretty great paining.  It is now framed and on the mantle.

A Strawberry!

Josie and I have planted a garden.  While we have not reaped much yet (there will be a lone carrot and at least 10 tomatos) we did get one great strawberry.  According to Josie it was "delicious, sweet, and just wonderful".