Wow, we had a fabulous field trip yesterday. We went to a gorgeous almost-organic berry farm and had a ball with our support group, picking berries, picnicking and playing in the sand. There was 15 kids and 4 adults (and one very helpful 11year old) and it was perfect! The weather was perfect, the farmer was great about explaining things to the kids and the children behaved wonderfully. Of course each of the younger kids had a "moment" or two but overall, it was better than I ever expected it to be. Also had interesting conversations with the other moms about everything including discipline and child-rearing.
School has been good here. Zeff has been very interested in doing "Zeffy" school so we have started a letter-of-the-week approach that a friend of mine has been very successful with. Wednesday we made a poster of letter A and drew pictures and labeled "a" words. We traced letter A with his finger and made sound effects. We also did some counting stuff. Today we reviewed the letter A poster and made an ant out of an egg carton with pipe cleaner legs. Again practiced counting the legs, etc. Zeff is such a little naturalist. He loves ants and watches them all the time and refused to make his ant any color besides black or brown. Speaking of his naturalist-tendencies - he has become quite observant of trees and birds and will identify all I have taught him on his own. I need to learn more about trees as I can only identify birch and maple, but he is very excited to be able to identify the birch trees in the neighborhood and talk about the uses of the bark.
Joss had a fun week at daycamp last week and had trouble the first 1/2 of the week staying on task. That is much better today. We did a fun seed activity where we recorded our obsesrvations, tasted and glued seeds to a poster for science. She has 30 lessons left and is making a paper chain with thirty links to use to count down.
On the car front, we met with the ins guy yesterday who agreed to fix several more things on the car, we are still concerned that the frame is damaged but he keeps saying it isn't. They will be rechecking that when they do the other work, and I will obtain a second opinion if they again state that it is not. My back is still fouled up but I will be attempting to work this evening. I'm not sure I can make it through a whole shift, but I need to try.
Well, that's it from me. Hope everyone else in the blogosphere is doing well. I tried to add a comment thing to my blog but it doesn't want to work.
School has been good here. Zeff has been very interested in doing "Zeffy" school so we have started a letter-of-the-week approach that a friend of mine has been very successful with. Wednesday we made a poster of letter A and drew pictures and labeled "a" words. We traced letter A with his finger and made sound effects. We also did some counting stuff. Today we reviewed the letter A poster and made an ant out of an egg carton with pipe cleaner legs. Again practiced counting the legs, etc. Zeff is such a little naturalist. He loves ants and watches them all the time and refused to make his ant any color besides black or brown. Speaking of his naturalist-tendencies - he has become quite observant of trees and birds and will identify all I have taught him on his own. I need to learn more about trees as I can only identify birch and maple, but he is very excited to be able to identify the birch trees in the neighborhood and talk about the uses of the bark.
Joss had a fun week at daycamp last week and had trouble the first 1/2 of the week staying on task. That is much better today. We did a fun seed activity where we recorded our obsesrvations, tasted and glued seeds to a poster for science. She has 30 lessons left and is making a paper chain with thirty links to use to count down.
On the car front, we met with the ins guy yesterday who agreed to fix several more things on the car, we are still concerned that the frame is damaged but he keeps saying it isn't. They will be rechecking that when they do the other work, and I will obtain a second opinion if they again state that it is not. My back is still fouled up but I will be attempting to work this evening. I'm not sure I can make it through a whole shift, but I need to try.
Well, that's it from me. Hope everyone else in the blogosphere is doing well. I tried to add a comment thing to my blog but it doesn't want to work.
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