I realized I haven't posted in awhile so figured I would make an update. Last week was so full! Monday we spent at the Children's Museum and at the Pacific Science Center. Daddy was off on holiday and so we wanted to show him everything. Unfortunately everyone else was on holiday also. There were so many people!!! It was truly frustrating!! My first reaction was of "where did all these people come from and why are they in our areas?" Kind of a terretorial feeling. I was later ashamed of this feeling and knew that other people had as much right as we did to give their children these experiences, but it didn't make it any less frustrating. I wanted to tell them all to come back on the weekend when it was "their time" for I felt like the weekdays were ours. Maybe we have just been spoiled in that we get used to going places and having all the activites availiable for us to use at our leisure without waiting in line forever. One of the perks of home-schooling. Still I have to keep a logical head and try to remember to not get frustrated in moments like these.
Tuesday was our coop day. The children are really enjoying it now. I am an aid in a science class for 5 and 6 year olds who are studying volcano's. The teacher was out sick and asked if I would fill in. Little did I know that she wanted to do paper mache volcano's before I said yes! But I survived and we actually had fun.
Wednesday one of the local radio stations was airing from the Seattle Aquarium and was offering admission for a dollar, so of course we were all over that! Again there were a ton of people, I think mostly due to all the daycares and day camps as this was "mid-winter break" (what that is I have no idea- didn't they just have christmas break?). But we figured out the secret, stay late, after everyone else goes home, for it seems they do not have as much staying power as we do :) The children had a blast and really loved watching the seals. At one point I left Isaac and Ser in an area coloring octopus tentacles, when I came back I was surprised to see Isaac's name written on each tentacle he had been coloring. I knew it wasn't Ser's writing but asked her if she had written his name on them, she said "no, he did". So, I asked Isaac to show me how he wrote his name. I'll be danged if that child who just turned four at the end of Dec was writing his name!!! Funny part is, I do not remember specifically sitting down with him to teach him this task. We have had many impromptu moments where we have discussed how to spell and write his name, but nothing substantial. Definetly one of those moments that confirm that children can learn to do something outside of a small room with twenty of their peers and one authority figure. They can even learn it without being "formally" taught how. Go figure....
Thursday we went to an exhibit on Leonardo DaVinci at the museum of flight. It was a fascinating exhibit for me and Michael, unfortunately the other two lost interest really quick. I would love to have explored it "kid-less" but a time and season to everything, right? After the exhibit we looked around a bit but the kids were antsy. You can definetly tell we have a membership and visit often, the kids were just not in the mood to look around at all. I think we may have been running to hard over the week.
Friday Isaac had science class with the Audobon society, but we all joined in. They studied birds and were shown several stuffed birds. Discussed the different purposes that feathers have such as flight, decoration, warmth, stability, etc... They also talked about the different calls and migratory habits. We were then armed with binoculars and went on a bird watching walk, it was so much fun!!!
So that was our week, lest we forget the wonderful adventures we have been on.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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