also, things just stay hectic as i try to keep my twenty-three first graders engaged and learning to the bitter end!! i know, i know, you are thinking "ease up...let them have some fun, school is almost out!" you would think so, wouldn't you? BUT NO!!! they are sooo excited for summer, and sooo ready to just play and play and play...that i have to stay on them like white on rice! but, i am planning fun lessons for them. we are learning about cool, off topic things like nutrition and the food pyramid. and we have just finished reading the book Babe by Dick King-Smith. It took almost four weeks, so now we will watch the movie and compare the book and the movie on a giant diagram. so see, a little fun, but still learning!!! (also, if you do plan to read Babe with children, it is an english-english book, and they use the phrase "collie bitch" alot to talk about the dog fly.....this book would not be a good group reading assignment. i definitley suggest a read-aloud on this one!!!)
okay, other than that: my own kids have started with the summer fun. we have gone swimming, to the spraygrounds and other fun stuff.
so that's where i've been.
oh, and an update to the "summer resolutions".
- i have been walking or to the gym three out of four days (with time scheduled for today)
- i have only been to target one time
- we have gone out to eat much less since that post, but there is room for improvement!
so, if i don't post again until thursday, you know what is happening!
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