WELCOME BACK!! Another Summer of Funner has begun! Here’s our Summer Love-to-Do List for 2015 : Sunset Canoeing, Small Town Parade, Bonfire S’mores, Early Morning Birding, Electricity Experiments, Family Film Fest, Lego Skyscraper Build, Putting on a Play, All the Farmer’s Markets, Family Yoga, Backyard Camping, Scoring a Baseball Game, Sidewalk Mural, Making Moving Vehicles, […]
It’s Summer of Funner 2014! The Summer of Ability: Invention, Imagination, and Independence. Originally, we thought that our theme for the summer was going to be “Summer of Funner Nights.” However, when I broke my hand and had corrective surgery a few weeks ago, the kids and I decided that we wanted our summer to […]
Somewhere along a section of damp sand I encountered several large toads who were also making a night journey and who hopped clumsily for a little way with me. There was something so attractive about their little bursts of energy that, tired as I was, I began to skip with them. I was delighted … First one […]
The Summer is Over! But, Have No Fear! The Lunchbox Season will be up and running in early September! Summer of Funner would like to THANK YOU for a FABULOUS SUMMER! If you have a look at our original 2013 Summer Bucket List, to the right, you’ll notice we ticked off most of Summer Must-Haves! And we […]
Blaise is going to spend most Tuesdays in the summer introducing the kids to Toronto’s neighbourhoods, or finding and exploring all of the city’s “hidden gems.” Before these travels begin, however, they spent a day “mapping” both the city of Toronto and our Upper Beaches neighbourhood, newly dubbed “Beach Hill.” To get started, they looked […]
Today, I finished reading Beowulf aloud to the kids! Beowulf and his companions return home to their King. After several years of service to Hygelac and, then, Hygelac’s son (whose murder is depicted below), Beowulf himself became the ruler of the Geats. In his old age, Beowulf must do battle one more time. A poor […]
Today, we had a long train trip home from our trip to High Park, so I took the opportunity to have the kids both create and play story-telling games. They had their markers with them already. And, thinking ahead, I had brought along a big deck of blank white cardstock that I cut into small […]
Today, we took our reading and illustration project to the great outdoors. On a misty, “drippy” morning, we sat on a bench beneath a cluster of trees in Toronto’s High Park. There, I read the kids our second instalment of Beowulf: Just when things were settling down at Heorot, Grendel’s mother comes and attacks the […]
“Don’t be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.” L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon. Each year, the kids keep journals to document all of their Summer of Funner activities. We call these “Yesterday Books.” In the Summer of 2011, […]
June 30, 2012 Pick yourself up, SUDS yourself off, and start all over again… We’re back! Welcome to Summer of Funner 2012! Over the past few months of our Lunchbox Season, the kids have been forming a list of all of their requests for activities for their Summer of Funner 2012. We’ve got plenty of fun […]
