Oh my goodness, it's been a long time since I have posted here for you other Albertans.  It's amazing how fast time flies when change is going through your home.  Between illness, spiritual journeys and the like I have been MIA far too long.  I while not be disappearing like that again I hope.

A quick note, The International Children's Festiva is currently going on in downtown St. Albert.  It will be on until Saturday May 31, so if you haven't been down yet please make time to do so, a great time is guaranteed for all ages.  We go every year and this year will be no exception.  We will be attending tomorrow, hope some of you can make it too.

Other goings-on.  This is the time of year for life cycle sciences.  We have decided on 2 studies so far, both rather spur of the momenr, first on the agenda is Painted ladies butterflies.  While at our local Education store looking for a spanish program we wanted I noticed butterfly pavillions, so we bought one and 2 caterpillars.  They are very small still but growing quickly.  It willbe fun to watch them metamorphosis into butterflies.  The second study is frogs.  A fellow homeschooler went pond dipping and caught tadpoles, she graciously shared them with my family.  In conjunction with both studies we are doing lapbooks.

Now a point of interest for those in the Edmonton area.  Durning the month of June the Valley Zoo, and the John Janzen Nature center are doing a frog theme.  Every weekend will be a different topic, check their websites for more information.  Apparently frogs are headed towards extinction, these topics will give you more information on the hows and whys and what we can do to help, as well as general information on frogs. 

Also if anyone has information on where one can order a ladybug raising kit here in Canada I would really appreciate it.  It appears that while these kits are readily available in the states, they can not send the larvae over the border, so I need a Canadian supplier.