Why the Whales Came

happy readers rescue a whale

 Our family's recommended book came up for reading this week, so we hosted the DYRS crew on Saturday morning. My love organised a marvelous session if ever there was one.

Seb had us relaxing by listening to various whale songs; we watched a clip of a mostly successful rescue of 6 beached whales, and then another with an indeterminate ending; the kids rescued 3 very heavy whales who had beached themselves in our yard; we wrote postcards to our Minister of National Defence to stop sonar testing and underwater explosions when endangered pods are near; oh and we discussed why villagers were hostile to one particular character, as well as other character and plot elements to the book.

And we all ate well of course.

moving a whale by using found 'logs'

moving a whale with a found scooter

assembling materials to move a beached 'whale'

some of our young readers and their parents

and the rest squeezed into our ground floor