Learning something new today...

Today we went to the library and signed up for the summer reading program, and checked out armloads of books, too. We picked out books on tadpoles, frogs, toads, dragonflies, and fun summer projects. Trystan picked out a stack of readers as big as his head... the librarian was very impressed with his ambition!! Isaac had a hard time selecting a book, and finally settled on Old Yeller... I read that book the summer after third grade, too.

We spent time at the park right outside the library with friends we ran into while we were there. We checked out all the baby fish in the lake, the goslings, and a critter we thought was a crawdad. Trystan fell in the water, so we had to stay until he stopped dripping! We spotted a few dragonflies, too, while the kids were all trying to catch minnows with their hands.

When we got home we were reading book after book (after cooling off!) and discovered the little critter in the shallow water we thought was a crawdad was actually a dragonfly nymph!! We learned alot and will study them more in depth in the next few weeks. So fun and exciting!!