This week is going by in a blur. I am focusing less on the kids and more on me as teacher at this point. Thinking through where we will go next. So here is a quick recap.
Monday we stayed mostly here at home, trying to get things in order after a busy weekend, and one which ended in sand. By the time I finished cleaning (all except the laundry which STILL has not been put away and has actually grown into a bigger pile of clean items) it was 5:30 already so I gave up on making dinner and we walked down the street to the new LaBella’s place which, I guess, is not so new anymore since it opened two years ago. But it was our first time. So there. While we waited, we did math with the sweetener packets. E worked on patterning and did great. M and I made some charts – it was the first time we had really worked on that and she seemed to enjoy it.
Tuesday we went to the unschool park day and stayed until it was time to leave for E’s doctor appointment. The kids played inside the rec center (air hockey, coloring), on the playground, freeze tag, etc. But the highlight of the day by far were the two baby hawks we saw in the tree next to their nest. And all the moms admonished me for not having my camera. In my defense, I don’t have a lens quite that big, any way. Probably, I should just being Sarah with me from now on.
Today we went to the library for a MoPA workshop which was less “workshop” and more “kid craft”. But it was an excellent one. The kids all used digital cameras to take photos of themselves which were then printed out. They glued it to a sheet of paper and then cut magazines up and made collages out of it. Our friends were there and Isabella made hers entirely out of feet, including her self-portrait of her foot. Loved that. I didn’t see Rafael’s. Margie used cheetah parts (eyes, nose) on top of her photo to create a really neat sort of image. I was impressed. As was the lady from MoPA (I think that’s who she was) who called it “intuitive”.
The kids also turned in their reading sheets – M entirely finished hers and earned herself a book (she picked Junie B Jones) and then they hung their cutouts on the wall. M was only the 6th kid to put hers in the 24 hour section.
We grabbed a few books on the way out. M originally shunned the art books until I pointed out she could use the knowledge to impress Claire.
See, I’d love that. Trailing people around and taking photos of their lives. It would mean I’d never have to decide what I want to be when I grow up, because I’d just be whatever my subject is. A cool dude, in your case.