Writing Around The House

Apparently, the circus is coming to town.  How funny is this?

One night we found out nightstand's labeled.  Maybe she was worried we would get confused.

                                   I loved it!

Opera and Peter Pan

Recently, Jeff was the technical director for an opera at UNCG.  Emily and I were able to visit, see the set, and watch a little bit of rehearsal.  Jeff did an amazing job with the set and lighting as usual.  By the way, the white arch is the same arch that my dad built for our wedding.  It has been out in our yard now for 9 years.  Part of the fancy top has come off due to years of weather, but it still looks nice.

Later, we walked next door and went to see Peter Pan.  This was so well done and Emily loved it!

After the play, we went to a tea with most of the actors from the play.  They stayed in character during the tea which was fun.

We had a lovely afternoon!

Spring Time In The Fall

Emily's class has been learning about the 4 seasons.  After their Fall Fun morning on Halloween they had some fun celebrating all 4 seasons in the afternoon.  The children were each assigned a season.  They made a symbol for their season and they were asked to bring clothes to change into for their season.  Emily's season was Spring.  She made a bird's nest with eggs for her symbol and she wore a strawberry dress.  They did a season parade.

They recited poems the class wrote for each season.

Each child shared some Haiku poetry that they wrote and illustrated for their season with the parents and their 5th grade reading buddies.

This is some of the haikus she wrote.  She did a great job with the 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern.

Spring Time
Birds hatch out of eggs.
Yummy strawberry pie mmm!
We get more time too!

Spring
Spring is very fun.
I have a great time in spring.
Baby birds are born.

Outside in Spring
Play outside in spring.
Green leaves grow back on the trees.
Days get longer too!



Here is Emily showing off her spring outfit, symbol and poem.

Emily's teachers asked me to coordinate a "four seasons snack".  They wanted one or two foods for each season.  This snack was for Emily's class and their 5th grade reading buddies.  I had a lot of fun doing this snack and the kids seemed to really enjoy it!  The menu:  Fall:pumpkin muffins, apples/ Winter: marshmallow snowmen/ Spring: strawberries/ Summer: blueberries and lemonade.

Daddy's Little Girl

There she is...in a pretty dress...helping her Daddy load tools:).  She love to help Daddy.

The Thanksgiving Spirit

We have enjoyed putting the leaves on our thankful tree like we do each year.  Every night we each pick an empty leaf and write what we are thankful for on it and put it on the tree.  Our tree is filling up!  It's a nice thanksgiving tradition.

Emily and I have done some other fall crafts.  First, this is Emily's hand print fall tree.  The hands are all hers and the trunk is her arm, the branch is her thumb and the leaves on the ground are her finger prints.  I love the way it turned out.

Next we made an apple print banner on burlap to hang in the kitchen.  I love this too.

Farm Day

Every year since Emily was three we have been visiting a local farm in October before Halloween.  They have lots of fun activities and a little pumpkin patch.  We were so busy this year we never made it before Halloween.  We decided to go the first weekend in November this year.  It was actually perfect.  The leaves were prettier than they usually are and it wasn't crowded at all.  We also had fabulous weather.

Beautiful Fall Leaves

The leaves have been so pretty around here lately!  I just love fall!  It is truly my favorite season!

Halloween 2013

Emily's class had a day full of fun activities planned.  They started off with pumpkin activities.  We scooped out the pumpkins and wrote down words to describe about what we saw, smelled, felt etc. We estimated the number of seeds in our pumpkin. Then we sorted and counted the seeds using ten frames.  The children got to design the face.  The adults carved and then the kids decorated the pumpkins.

Then they did leaf art with fall leaves they had collected.  Here is Emily working on her leaf man.  

After lunch the children had  songs and poems to perform, a parade, and snacks related all four seasons.  I will blog about the afternoon activities later.  It was a fun but busy day at school.

Emily was really excited for trick-or-treating later that night.  Here is our Princess Sofia the First all ready to go.

The royal family.

The gang was ready to go.

We had a fun night and Emily ended up with a yummy collection of candy!