Trip Day, Snow Days, and Sick Days

Last week, we had our first fieldtrip in 2014. To finish our unit on animals with a bang we visited the Animal Welfare Society, an animal shelter in West Kennebunk. The Agents had a blast.

 

 

 

As you can see, the cats were as thrilled to see us as we were to see them.

 

The puppy our tourguide introduced us to was much nicer, and let Agent J. and Future-Agent A. (Agent V's little brother) lead him around on the leash while Agent V. took pictures.

 

We walked around the facility a couple of times, looking at all the animals with awe and, in Agent V's case, trepidation.

 The animals.

 

The awe.

 

 The trepidation.

 

Agent V. didn't like the noise in the dog room, and refused to even venture inside until we found a magical solution: noise cancelling headphones. With these he was able to conquer his fear and go forth into the dog room with confidence.

 

So magic.

 

I think their favorite part was seeing the bunnies - no one barking at them or giving them cat-eyed glares there.

 

 Just calm disinterest.

 

Unfortunately, poor Agent M. was out sick for much of the week. We missed her tons and tons! Pastor J.E. came to read to the Agents on Tuesday, and they made her a card. Thanks to Agent M.'s mom for the picture, which will be below just as soon as my phone decides to do its job.

[Agent M.'s photo here]

We also played for a group of local pastors on Tuesday, and they really enjoyed it! Pastor J.E. said he got all kinds of emails saying how great the Agents were.

 

After all that, the week was pretty quiet. We worked and played really hard.

We had a snow day, which was awesome, and then the week got really quiet when Agent J got sick and it was just Agent V. and I holding down the fort.

 

We made do somehow.

 

In library news, we've begun making an absolute mess of things by sorting the books by genres. This process may take longer than cataloging them, although we have a week long break coming up and might be able to knock out a chunk of the project during.

 

So that wraps up this week! The commercial should be on Facebook this evening, and you'll be able to find it via links through this post, last week's post, the website, and on Facebook itself. This upcoming week is both our 100 Days of School party and Valentine's Day, so tune in next Sunday for another exciting post!

God bless,

Mia