Caterpillars - BY ABBY

Caterpillars - by Abby

We found 7 Wooley Bear Caterpillars, and 1 green one with a red head that we don't know what it was.

~ by Abby Bennett

On the Road Again!

On the Road Again!

We are back on the road again and off to Hagerstown MD! We will be working at the Haunted House again this year! Fun, Fun, Fun!

Abby is Reading!

Out of nowhere Abby has started to read! Over the past year we've been working with her on phonics and sounding out words, but she has been so resistant that I haven't really pushed her too much. Then two days ago I called the school to see what type of reading program they are using and they mentioned they were doing the 100 book challenge in addition to their regular program. When I told Abby about it she was very excited and wanted to do the challenge also. Since I hadn't heard her really read much without struggling I thought she wouldn't be able to do much more than picture books, but she has already read 27 simple sight word and word family books. She is still sounding out and guessing a lot, but she is definately reading!

Busy Summer

Labor Day is over already! It's been a while since I posted and I figured now that things have slowed down a bit, I might as well catch up on the blog. The summer went by so quickly! Abby had the best time with all of our themed weeks - Pirates & Princesses, Retro, Disney, Country Western, and so much more!

This summer I really saw her begin to bloom and make some good friends. She met a little girl named Autumn who lives just up the road, and her friend Juliet and her seem to be getting along much better this year as well.

We also had a great time this year as well. We met the greatest new friends - Pat and Debbie - and have had such a good time hanging out with them. We're planning on meeting up again with them this winter in Florida, and we actually hope to see Pete & Rita and Kati & Vern sometime as well.

Our New Camper - BY ABBY

We got a new camper this April. It was hard to get a new camper cause I didn't want to go out of ours, but my Daddy did and my Mommy did. So we got a new one. It was not really cool at first. But now it's cool. I like that it's bigger than the other one.

~by Abby Bennett

School & Work

It's hard to believe that the winter is almost over and that camping season starts in just a few weeks. Even though kindergarten is technically suppose to start until this fall, Abby has pretty much completed the K-Program. She has developed a real love of learning and we are always looking up new things on the internet. Her latest sustained interest is in space (triggered directly by the space shuttle launch in February). She loves to hear all sorts of books about space and is very interested in learning about the planets, stars, and galaxies. Lately our bedtime stories have been non-fiction facts right out of the encyclopedia about space -- so much for Goldilocks! We've also started reading the Little Princess and just finished Tinkerbell. She loves the Little Princess book and has decided she wants to read more books by Frances Hodgsen. Oh, and guess what! She got a letter back from President Bush from the time she wrote to him in November. The war memorials really affected her when we went to see them in Washington DC and she had written to the president about stopping the war in Iraq. I never expected for her to get a reply, but one day in the mail was a letter for her in the mail from the White House. He wrote to her directly and also sent her a picture of himself and Mrs. Bush. I was impressed.

RV Shows

Our RV shows went well this March. We went to the Syracuse show and since Binghamton got canceled at the last minute we substituted Turning Stone instead. Overall we handed out over 8000 brochures. In the past Abby had been front and center in helping to hand out the brochures and talking with people about the campground, but this year she didn't want much to do with it. Instead I had her help out at the kid's craft table. That she liked, but after 2 years of RV shows I think the new has worn off and she even got bored with this.