The boys are learning about Frederic Remington this month at school. I went up to the school today to learn how to make what the children will be making so that I can help present the art literacy lessons. Let me just say that I hope that the children’s horses look a lot better than mine did. 🙂
Liam has started his classes to prepare for First Reconciliation. Today we had a little parent meeting/family gathering/craft session. This is Liam making a cross out of clothespins.
I found these Halloween riddles on-line. They are perfect to cut up and put in the boys’ lunches.
Our local Hallmark store has the BEST sales. I absolutely fell in love with these and they were only two dollars! They are salt and pepper shakers. I don’t think I will use them for salt and pepper shakers, but they do look super cute sitting on our kitchen table.
You know it’s a good day when baklava is on the menu.
I have been volunteering a lot at school this year and one of the things I help with is Junior Great Books. It is a program designed to get classic literature, folk tales, poetry, etc. into the hands of children grades 1-5 in small group settings. It’s a great place to talk about vocabulary, setting, problem, solution, etc. The program also has an art component, a writing component and many other ways to take the literature in different directions such as role play and readers’ theater depending on the story, age and ability. I met with my first grade group for the first time this week. I read the story to them this time and then they did some response activities. We will build on those when I meet with them tomorrow. I also found out last night that I am going to leading a third grade group as well. It will be interesting to see how the third grade materials differ from the first grade’s.
Liam decided he wanted to help decorate for Halloween so he made this bat and taped it to the shutters in the dining room. 🙂
Prepped for the final touches in the morning
Right before school started I had these so organized. They were all washed, dried and stacked just so. Now that we have been using them to take snacks and lunches to school for the past five weeks, they are not quite as organized as they once were.
Tomorrow is my first day of teaching 16 first graders about their Catholic faith. We are going to start with some getting to know you songs/activities and discussing who teaches them about God and who/what they think God is. Next week we are going to learn about Mary.