Thursday and Friday - it's a two-fer, 2 days late!

Boy is life with 2 jobs ad three kids busy! I'm thinking maybe weekly blogging will be more manageable, because daily blogging isn't working out so well.

Both days were green smiley days. On Wednesday Terra forgot to take her library book to school for library day, so on Thursday she got to go get a new book - a Junie B Jones chapter book, which she insists we read one chapter of each day. She's just so dedicated to school work and learning, so thirsty for knowledge, so proud of herself for every thing she learns and can share with us. It's just incredible. I hope this is her attitude towards school for the next 13 years. If it is, she'll have no trouble with her future!

On Thursday afternoon, along with her new book, she brought home a note from her teacher requesting that she bring a towel or blanket and her favorite stuffed animal. The class has been collecting gum balls for their class gumball machine - when the machine was full, the class would get a special prize. They filled it up this week and they got to have a picnic with a special snack. Terra was so excited!

Friday morning she took her stuffed poodle and her favorite blanket to school. It was overcast and there was a 60% chance of rain. Scott and I obsessed a bit about the possibility that it would rain out their picnic. She lucked out - it cleared up and the sun came out and they ate cookies in the school yard with their stuffed animals. She came home and yelled at me for not packing a snack. A.) I actually DID pack her a snack, but accidentally put it in her lunch box. B.) She didn't need a snack, the teachers provided the "special" snack they all had. But she was soooo upset with me for not packing her a snack!

I'm feeling a little out of whack - working every week night has me struggling to get time in every evening to practice her poems and sight words with her. I do not want my situation to effect her school performance, and I'm really concerned that it will over time...

Friday #2

Well, it was another week full of green smilies, so we agreed to take her somewhere as a reward. I'll be danged if she didn't choose school. She asked if we could go to the school playground (not her own school though, another very close by) to play on the playground. We will oblige her, tomorrow. I'm glad to hear that she loves school so much that she wants to go even on the weekends!

I'm also looking forward to working on her new poem and things as the Moodle page is updated with her new lessons this weekend. We'll definitely work a bit on her new poem before Monday morning!

I hope I'll hear back this week about my status as a school volunteer. They do a full bacckground check, criminal and financial, check with personal references and professional references -- it's a careful investigation, and I have no idea how long it will take, or if they'll have room available for me to volunteer if I'm approved. It's a tiny school, and the parents are very involved, so they may actually NOT have a place for me to volunteer. I'll be sad if that's how it works out, but I suppose there are worse problems to have in a school

I did send in some items from the class wish list as well as extra snacks for kids who forget to bring one. I also sent the teacher a link to the interactive dolche site since it wasn't listed on her Moodle site.