On a Rampage!
We split our FHE up in to a lesson on Sunday, and an activity on Monday for the first time this week. The lesson went well. Our plan is to always cover the last week's church, and also to prepare for the next week's church too. We had Sara teach the lesson, and it went well.
On Monday Mike started a new semester in school. He is only teaching two classes this semester. He was thinking that they might ask him to teach three, since they asked him in December if he would be willing to try it, however he is sort of happy that they only asked him for two because three would be a lot of classes.
On Monday night we went to see a play at the local library. The production was Alice in Wonderland. Mike loved the tweedle dee/dum song. Alison loved the caterpillar/butterfly. Rea loved Alice and her sister, the cat, the butterfly, and the flowers. Sara loved the cat. Timmy loved the rabbit, and Gideon mostly just enjoyed the songs and dancing.
This week Rea, and the younger kids built a snow-fort. First Rea built a bunch of snowballs in a oval for the walls, and then they stacked more snowballs on top of them, and then they made a roof out of boards and sticks, and they filled the cracks in with snowballs. It is big enough for two people to go in, and has covered and uncovered parts of it so that you can pop out the top.
The kids wanted me to mention that they got to play with Marissa a lot of times. When I asked Gideon about Marissa, he told me the following:
"Marissa is mean. She plays with Sara and Timmy and Rea. She loves baby sharks. I don't know what she does. She plays with the baby sharks. I don't know what she looks like. She likes to eat bread and cheesy water. She washes her face in dirty water. We play a game about tumbles and blue cheese and cheesy water. And then she takes a bath and throws the toys all over the ground. Now I'm all done."
We had our first carnival party this week. Timmy wanted a reindeer party, so we ended up having our theme be the Sami people in north Finland and Norway. They live in cold snowy areas and herd reindeer. We invited the Dalyias, and Timmy's friends from church Wilson and Joseph as well as Joseph's older sisters. We held it in the cultural hall at the church. The kids were very loud and ran around a lot and had a fun time.
Rea found the crown in her ice cream bowl, so she will get to plan next week's party.
This was our first week back to Montessori school since the holidays. It went very well for a first week. We spent a lot of time practicing Montessori manners. Alison is working hard to get all of the shelves and materials that are necessary organized.
On Friday Mike and Alison saw spirited away, and we let the kids watch a bunch of episodes of My Little Ponies. It was a low energy date, but that is what Alison was up for.
We were given a gift of money for Christmas as a family, and we ended up getting a NES Classic with it. It is able to play a lot of the games that Mike grew up on, and Timmy and Sara have been enjoying playing it. They are not yet very good at it, however they are working on it, and probably will be very good soon.
Mike has also started to play Nethack again. Periodically he plays it, but he has never beaten the version of the game released 4 years ago (nor the version released 8 months ago), so he is still trying to do that. His current game is the farthest he has ever gotten (level 13, and having most of the equipment necessary to ascend, but not the bell, book, or candelabrum). Perhaps this will be the time that he succeeds.
On Monday Mike started a new semester in school. He is only teaching two classes this semester. He was thinking that they might ask him to teach three, since they asked him in December if he would be willing to try it, however he is sort of happy that they only asked him for two because three would be a lot of classes.
On Monday night we went to see a play at the local library. The production was Alice in Wonderland. Mike loved the tweedle dee/dum song. Alison loved the caterpillar/butterfly. Rea loved Alice and her sister, the cat, the butterfly, and the flowers. Sara loved the cat. Timmy loved the rabbit, and Gideon mostly just enjoyed the songs and dancing.
This week Rea, and the younger kids built a snow-fort. First Rea built a bunch of snowballs in a oval for the walls, and then they stacked more snowballs on top of them, and then they made a roof out of boards and sticks, and they filled the cracks in with snowballs. It is big enough for two people to go in, and has covered and uncovered parts of it so that you can pop out the top.
The kids wanted me to mention that they got to play with Marissa a lot of times. When I asked Gideon about Marissa, he told me the following:
"Marissa is mean. She plays with Sara and Timmy and Rea. She loves baby sharks. I don't know what she does. She plays with the baby sharks. I don't know what she looks like. She likes to eat bread and cheesy water. She washes her face in dirty water. We play a game about tumbles and blue cheese and cheesy water. And then she takes a bath and throws the toys all over the ground. Now I'm all done."
We had our first carnival party this week. Timmy wanted a reindeer party, so we ended up having our theme be the Sami people in north Finland and Norway. They live in cold snowy areas and herd reindeer. We invited the Dalyias, and Timmy's friends from church Wilson and Joseph as well as Joseph's older sisters. We held it in the cultural hall at the church. The kids were very loud and ran around a lot and had a fun time.
Rea found the crown in her ice cream bowl, so she will get to plan next week's party.
This was our first week back to Montessori school since the holidays. It went very well for a first week. We spent a lot of time practicing Montessori manners. Alison is working hard to get all of the shelves and materials that are necessary organized.
On Friday Mike and Alison saw spirited away, and we let the kids watch a bunch of episodes of My Little Ponies. It was a low energy date, but that is what Alison was up for.
We were given a gift of money for Christmas as a family, and we ended up getting a NES Classic with it. It is able to play a lot of the games that Mike grew up on, and Timmy and Sara have been enjoying playing it. They are not yet very good at it, however they are working on it, and probably will be very good soon.
Mike has also started to play Nethack again. Periodically he plays it, but he has never beaten the version of the game released 4 years ago (nor the version released 8 months ago), so he is still trying to do that. His current game is the farthest he has ever gotten (level 13, and having most of the equipment necessary to ascend, but not the bell, book, or candelabrum). Perhaps this will be the time that he succeeds.
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