Hearts, Boats and Faeries

 

 

Another busy week!

Binky drew this heart diagram for our human body study.

We watched some youtube videos by Bill Nye The Science Guy.

We love him! 

 

 

 

 

More boat building class.

I love that Binky works on boats in his top hat!

 

And, the play!

We are finally recovered from two days of performances.

Goose was a beautiful and perfect Peaseblossom.

She had so much fun!

 



 

Here is the full cast.

I had so much fun working with all of these kids.

 

 

 

My Peaseblossom!

Goose is becoming a young lady.

I can't believe she is going to be 13 this year!

Thirteen!

Watching her love being in this production with all of her friends

was such a gift.  She enjoyed every moment!

Seeing her giggle with the girls and watching the boys watching HER was

quite an experience! I hope both Binky and Goose will be in the play

together next year, as it will be Goose's last year at our

charter school.  We still haven't figured out what we are doing for

high school.  There are a couple of schools we want to check out.

I am looking forward to a nice calm weekend.

Some housework, crocheting and maybe some long walks.

What about you?

 

 

 

 

 

Faeries, Pi and Weekend Fun!

 

 

So, I mentioned in my last post that Goose is performing in our charter school's performance of

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.  And, on top of lots of other writing

assignments, all the kids were required to turn in some sort of project relating to

Shakespeare or this particular play.

And since Goose is playing the faerie,  Peaseblossom, she chose faeries as her

subject.  I am in love with this project!!! 

 

 

She studied the history of faeries and made this beautiful display,

complete with real faeries!  She used battery-operated tea lights with cotton over them to make

them glow.  I also love the faerie door at the base of the tree.  I am so proud of her!  She did it completely on her own.  She is also very proud of herself! 

 

 

 



Of course, we had to make pie on pi day!

Apple pie, as requested by Binky.  We also listened to some very funny youtube

songs about pi.  Binky and I also drew some circles, measured the diameter, radius and

found pi! And we finished the pie the next morning for breakfast.

 

 



Today was beautiful!

We all hopped in the car, with Cody the dog, and headed to the bay.

The water was warm and very shallow.

Cody loved it!

 

 



 

Is that a happy dog face, or what?

 

 

Daddy, Goose, Binky and Cody had a great time playing

Frisbee in the water.

While I was watching them playing, I thought to myself,

"This is our moment."  It was a wonderful feeling, living in that moment!

We played, laughed, snacked, ran, played catch later with a friend at the park.

Goose and Binky didn't argue once all day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was the perfect day. 

Now back to the week ahead. 

 

busy week

 

 

 

Binky is taking a boat building class on Friday mornings.

Their first project was to make their own paddles.

They tested them out in boats made by other students.

Binky is loving this class!

By the end, he will have his own boat.

Very exciting!

 

Goose is performing in our school's production of

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

She is playing the role of Peaseblossom, which is the role she wanted! 

 I am sewing on all of these little

blossoms to her cape and skirt.  Goose is very

excited!  This is her second Shakespeare performance.

She was in Twelfth Night two years ago.  Our charter school

does a Shakespeare performance every year.  We usually alternate

between tragedy and comedy.  I am excited to see all

the hard work these kids have put into this performance.  I am so impressed with

how hard they work and how familiar they are with Shakespeare.

There are two performances on March 20.

 

We are also busy with writing group, martial arts 4 days a week, French group,

art group.  I know there are other things to add to this list, but I can't think of them right now.

We are loving the weather here by the bay right now.

It is so nice to get outside every day and be active.  The bees are very active, too,

right now.  We listened to a very interesting show on Science Friday about bees.

Here is the link.  If you don't listen to Science Friday on NPR, you must

give it a try!  We love it! And we are always sad when we miss it.  But you

can always go to sciencefriday.com to listen any time.

What are you busy with right now?

 



cooking

 

 

Goose has been spending a lot of time in the kitchen.

She made citrus chicken with kale and rice the other night and it was

delicious!!  There were no left-overs. 

She is always asking to bake something.  Cookies, cake, whatever we happen

to have the ingredients for.  She turns on the music and

gets into her zone.  I can see how it relaxes her. 

It does the same for me!