Mesopotamia - Mésopotamie

Here is Lucie's Grade 5 work on Mesopotamia:

Voici le travail de 5ième année de Lucie sur la Mésopotamie:

Reading for this block/lectures pour ce bloc: Ludmilla Zeman, Le roi Gilgamesh, La revanche d'Ishtar et La dernière quête de Gilgamesh. 

A Long Weekend in Maine - Long week-end dans le Maine

Acadia National Park

Feeding Our Families: Eating on the Road

Because we live on a remote island, our family makes several trips to the continent every year to visit friends and family, to do some shopping and stock up on certain things (we have very few stores on the island) as well as enjoy a change of scenery. We sometimes travel by plane, but most often we travel by car. Our road trips are quite long, we first have a five hour ferry crossing and then we usually have to drive for six to twelve hours depending on our destination. These trips always require lots of preparation ahead of time, especially when it comes to food. We like to have everything that we need with us in order to make fewer and shorter stops (we don't want to stretch our drive any longer than necessary) and we are often driving along long highways with not that many places to stop and not very many healthy food options. Therefore, we like bring along our own food for meals and snacks on the boat and on the road. Here are some of our favourite travel foods:

breakfast and morning snacks: muffins, cereal or granola, soy milk, chopped fruit

afternoon and evening snacks and picnic meals: pasta salad, bagels, crackers, veggie-pâté, chopped veggies and hummus, fruit, cookies

we always have plenty of bottles of water with us as well 

making homemade bagels for the road

banana bread, cookies and muffins

veggies, fuit and veggie-pâté

snack-traps for nibbling toddlers are great to avoid (some) spilling in the car

A veggie-pâté recipe

1 cup seeds or nuts (I use sunflower seeds and almonds)

1/2 cup spelt flour

1 tbsp nutritional yeast

1 onion

1/4 cup tamari or soy sauce

1 sweet potato

3/4 cup hot water

dried basil to taste

Grate onion and sweet potato. Grind seeds and/or nuts. Mix onion, potato, seeds/nuts with other ingredients (I do everything in my food processor, leaving some texture). Bake in a greased square pan (I use a pyrex dish) at 350 degrees F for 40 minutes to an hour (until it looks done, depends on pan and oven). Eat warm or at room temperature on crackers or bread. Makes great sandwiches too. Store leftovers in the refrigerator (and this recipe freezes well, just thaw or warm in oven when ready to use). 

I would love to hear what foods you like to bring or stop for while on a road trip… Please share in the comments section. You will find other Feeding Our Families posts on these wonderful blogs:

Melanie from Our Ash Grove

http://ourashgrove.blogspot.com

Jules from A Little Crafty Nest

http://alittlecraftynest.typepad.com

Melody from Bespoke

http://www.littlehomeblessings.com

Tonya from Joyful Living

http://plainandjoyfulliving.blogspot.com

Taisa from Small Wonders

http://small-wonders.blogspot.com

Heather from Shivaya Naturals

http://www.shivayanaturals.com

Renee from Heirloom Seasons

http://heirloomseasons.blogspot.com

Sounds and Reading - Les sons composés et la lecture

I have been working on some two letter sounds and reading with Loane, here are some pages from her MLB:

Avec Loane, nous continuons de travailler les sons composés et la lecture:

Some reading in French/Voici quelques bonnes premières lectures en français:

-les comptines dans le recueil d'Hélène Besnard, Entre les mots

-la collection des albums La coccinelle chez Fernand Nathan (livres anciens que l'on peut dénicher à droite et à gauche chez les bouquinistes et sur Amazon.fr, on peut aussi en trouver plusieurs sur Scribd) 

-La clé des champs et Histoires aux quatre vents de Jacqueline Buisson (deux coups de coeur!)

Happy reading!

Bonne lecture!