Did your family participate? Here’s what we did for Earth hour this year: - Read Common Ground by Molly Bang shortly before lights out - Munched on homemade apple crisp (still warm from the oven) and soy ice cream, with tea to drink, by candlelight - Freaked Gareth out with Daegan merely mentioning ‘spooky stories”. I tried to be funny by talking about 4 ghosts—a Mommy, Daddy and two little boy ghosts who were sitting around their table drinking tea and having ice cream and apple crisp. Gareth laughed at first, but then got freaked...

Daegan and Gareth have discovered a show with great animal and nature related songs: Big Green Rabbit. The boys have been singing The Dinosaur Song and The Archaeopteryx song a LOT lately—you can find both songs on youtube. Here’s Daegan’s version of The Archaeopteryx Song: And the lyrics: Archaeopteryx, a bird-like flying dinosaur Archaeopteryx, with a mouth full of teeth Archaeopteryx, a long bony tail and then Two feathered wings with three claws on each. Archaeopteryx, from the Jurassic period Archaeopteryx, been...