A lamb, some pigs and a duck. Awesome!
Spring Break is always fun because there are lots of great camps to take advantage of. This year our district has 2 weeks of break, so this week the kids did soccer camp. Leif and Hannah were both signed up for a morning half-day camp, and then they were invited to join the afternoon camp if they wished. They did! So they each did 6 hours of soccer each day. Insane! They loved it, even when it poured and SNOWED!
When Hannah wasn't playing soccer she was playing around on the piano. She's been listening to Chariots of Fire and has picked out the notes on the piano. Now she plays a medley of that and Harry Potter, Sar Wars and The Sound of Music. Then she discovered our electric piano has a memory function, so she can play a tune and then the piano plays it back to her. To her dismay, even if she yells out her songs, the piano does not record her voice. :)
Hannah and I played with mirror-writing this week. Hannah began of her own initiative, spelling TIK TAK TOE backwards on a piece of paper.
Then she read it in the mirror.
Then we got crazy with her name. It's such a great name.
At Hannah's drum lessons she had a substitute instructor. He showed her how she can think of beats like syllables in names of fruit. PEAR is one whole beat, APPLE is two 1/2 beats . . blueberry, watermelon . . . it was cool. I'm hoping to sew her a satchel so she can carry her things around with her, and that includes her drumsticks, so she can drum out beats anywhere she goes.
She enlightened me this week with her explanation of odd and even numbers. That they must be divisible by 2 or they are odd. I love the stuff they dish out while I'm driving.
Leif played soccer, soccer and more soccer. When he wasn't playing soccer he was playing outside with us, or watching hockey on the computer.
We were listening to the radio and a story came on about baby boomers, immigration and minorities (I'm sure we all heard that story this week) and Leif asked all about it. So I explained the concept of generations, and what the baby boomer gen is, why it is called that, and how od they are now and what that means. Then explained why immigrants can help in the hole booomers are leaving in the workforce, but too often they are relegated to being underpaid cab drivers. Again, a great car chat.
I introduced a new idea to the kids this week. I told them how Earth Day is in April, and tha I had an idea that they could earn an Earth Badge, similar to their embroidered swim level badges. I told them they need to find a way to measure energy we use or waste we create in the house, and then see if they can find a way to reduce that amount. Create an experiment and hypothesis to test your idea and carry it out. I'm getting a bunch of books and DVDs from the library on this topic to give them the info and ideas. I hope this is a success.
And how are our birds you ask? Well, for days we've watched the two house sparrows bicker over real estate. He wants the bigger house he can fit into, she the smaller one she feels is safer. It's so funny to watch them debate it day after day.
And finally, a male Red House Finch has discovered my kitchen sink window feeder. But if I move in the kitchen he flies away. It's tricky.
I hope your last weeks of winter are not wearing you down, wherever you are. :)
C
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