Thursday, February 14, 2008
Johann needed a new sweater. Eric needed a new hat. I needed to reduce my stash. At Eric’s request, I made him a jester hat like Johann’s. As I was doing the finishing work on that, I threw in the left over yarn with extra yarn from 8 other completed projects for Johann’s sweater. I [...]
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Here’s a new favorite quote (author unknown) that gives some insight:
Most people don’t know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don’t get too comfortable and fall asleep and miss your life.
Chapter 3 of Johann’s Physics book covers the basic concepts of potential and kinetic energy. The teacher’s manual gives examples to get kids thinking about kinetic energy (the energy of motion) in a way they can relate to: a fast moving car, a basketball sitting still on the floor, a fast moving toddler versus a [...]
Since Johann is officially in second grade, we have been practicing penmanship. He’s been asking me to teach him cursive, but first he needs to refine his printing. One thing everyone needs to learn is not to put the letters that hang down above the line. I’ve told Johann many times to let the tails [...]
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Family togetherness is…
being glad you can’t afford a new sleeper sofa yet, so that all three of you have to sit close to each other and squish onto the two person love seat.
We have enjoyed watching our fish, japonica shrimp and snails in our two small aquariums and have learned a lot. John, the betta fish, is our “pink of perfection princess”. He craves pampering, is grumpy and aggressive toward other inhabitants in his tank, and sulks if he’s not the center of attention. John does come [...]
Before the end of the school year, Johann and I reviewed the concept of place value. We had covered ones and tens before. We added hundreds and thousands place. In order to make the concepts more tangible, Eric and I decided to buy the place value materials kit, a plastic cube, sticks, and mini-cubes for [...]
I’ve been watching my phalaenopsis orchid sending up a new stem and growing new buds over the past several weeks. I was very excited to see the new growth. The cold snap we had a couple of months ago finally overcame the heat created by the sunlight constantly hitting our side of the building. Up [...]
People laughed when Eric said he loved Belize so much, that if it wasn’t for the fact that Johann and I were waiting for him at home, he wouldn’t have come back. They don’t realize how serious he was. They didn’t hear how flat his voice sounded on the phone when he called me from [...]
In watching “The Muppet Show”, Johann has been introduced to a number of actors and artists that he had never heard of before. So he would ask about what made these people well-known. “Who is Gene Kelly?” led to us watching “Brigadoon”, “An American in Paris”, and “Singing in the Rain”. “Who is Jim Nabors?” [...]
