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The Niblet has been accepted into a super Middle School program! The school district changed our home school after we bought our hose, and placed us in an awful Middle School. So we had to apply to a 'magnet program' to get into the school a block away from where I teach. He had to get recommendations, write an essay - it was practically like applying to college! But he got in, and I am so proud of him! It's a great program that really plays to his academic strengths. And by the end of next year, the program will be accredited as part of the International Baccalaureate (http://www.ibo.org/)!
In other news, Niblet and I are going to Panama this year, and he is terribly excited. About the trip, but also because he gets to miss the last week and a half of school! Turns out we can handle this as an 'academic enrichment absence,' which will be perfect as he head into his International Studies Magnet Program!
On the topic of the Niblet, I spent last Thursday chaperoning an all-day field trip by the entire fifth grade. Whew! What a day that was! The morning on a riverboat (paddle-wheeler, even), followed by a movie at the performing arts center, then a four block walk to the history museum for a scavenger hunt through time. It was a lot of fun, but I have 12 kids under my personal supervision (Niblet included) and by the end of it, we were exhausted!
I gave my final today, and returned the graded research papers. Pretty mixed batch this time - a few good ones and some....wow. Now I just have stack of finals to grade and I'm done with another semester! Seems easier on this side of the desk, at least this time of the semester! When I'm agonizing over how to get through everything I need to get through, or how to fill up all my class time it's...less so.
I was dismayed to find we had something like quarter sized hail, but as it turns out, the garden didn't take too much damage. Lost a few been sproutlings, but nothing else. Even my newly leafing roses seem unscathed.
This came about during a rather odd show we all went to see. A show consisting of performing cats. yes, you read that right, performing house-cats. The Amazing Acro-Cats! It was very strange, much like one light expect from a troupe of performing cats! There was even a band, the RockCats, which consisted of four cats and a chicken. Yes, a chicken. Entertaining, but very, very, strange.
Other than that, not too much to report....
In other news, Niblet and I are going to Panama this year, and he is terribly excited. About the trip, but also because he gets to miss the last week and a half of school! Turns out we can handle this as an 'academic enrichment absence,' which will be perfect as he head into his International Studies Magnet Program!
On the topic of the Niblet, I spent last Thursday chaperoning an all-day field trip by the entire fifth grade. Whew! What a day that was! The morning on a riverboat (paddle-wheeler, even), followed by a movie at the performing arts center, then a four block walk to the history museum for a scavenger hunt through time. It was a lot of fun, but I have 12 kids under my personal supervision (Niblet included) and by the end of it, we were exhausted!
I gave my final today, and returned the graded research papers. Pretty mixed batch this time - a few good ones and some....wow. Now I just have stack of finals to grade and I'm done with another semester! Seems easier on this side of the desk, at least this time of the semester! When I'm agonizing over how to get through everything I need to get through, or how to fill up all my class time it's...less so.
I was dismayed to find we had something like quarter sized hail, but as it turns out, the garden didn't take too much damage. Lost a few been sproutlings, but nothing else. Even my newly leafing roses seem unscathed.
This came about during a rather odd show we all went to see. A show consisting of performing cats. yes, you read that right, performing house-cats. The Amazing Acro-Cats! It was very strange, much like one light expect from a troupe of performing cats! There was even a band, the RockCats, which consisted of four cats and a chicken. Yes, a chicken. Entertaining, but very, very, strange.
Other than that, not too much to report....
