Today's Activities

Today I had Jake do some creative writing for me. He loves Dragonball Z, so I asked him to write me a little something using some of the characters. He sat right down and started drawing and writing. He has some trouble with spacing, and he was under the impression that every time he hit the right margin he was supposed to separate the word with a hyphen. He moved an "s" all by itself to the next line. But notice he did use the apostrophe correctly. Here's the story with mispellings included:

Broly Fighting Goku

Once Broly fought Goku. Broly's gigantic medeor deflected back to Broly by 3 Ka ma ma waves.

Josie drew these designs so that we could print them up on some tote bags. We'll use these to carry library books. Notice the one she made for Jake has "U.S.A." written on the side of the helicopter. She drew that backwards and reversed so that we could print it on to the transfer properly. I did not tell her to do this. I didn't even know what she intended to do with these drawings she made until she told me. Anyway, they both got to iron them on by themselves.

We've been reading Despreaux and the kids really like it. It's kind of dark in some places.

Jake did two pretty difficult pages of math today. He likes to hit himself in the head when he's frustrated, but he laughs when he does this.

So far this week they have completed a lot of work on their visible woman, and read a lot about the human body from our book. We have also played with friends, and Josie tried to ride Rain's bike at OT today. We discovered she still has a lot of hurdles to overcome with balance and knowing where her body is in space.