Fireflies

We get the choice of mosquitos or fireflies for today and I picked fireflies (if you're interested in doing mosquitos, try Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale retold by Verna Aardema).

Who doesn't love fireflies?

And it's a perfect way to spend a summer evening. My thoughts are to have us play all afternoon at home, then read the "Firefly" poem (by Elizabeth Madox Roberts) from Animals Animals, which is beautifully illustrated in Eric Carle's inimitable style, and tell the kids that we are going out to hunt for fireflies after dinner. Eat, then go to the field behind the Community House and wait for the fireflies to appear! I don't think my kids are old enough to catch them and put them in a jar without squishing them so we won't do that. There's a song in Sing Through the Day called Firefly, where they set the words to the Elizabeth Madox Robert's poem to music, so we can sing that while we watch them. Then we'll come back home and read Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant, then go to bed.
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