Catching Up
Yes. I haven’t updated the blog in months. ๐ So, let me try and catchup.
Both girls are working hard at school these days. Katherine asked me a couple weeks ago to help her with math. So…we’ve been practicing lots and lots of problems, rote memorization (ex. 7+8, 9+6), dynamic addition and interesting word problems. Katherine’s been plugging away at dynamic addition almost every night, diligently carrying the one. The kids love the word problems. Several of our sample word problems are as follows:
- Paupau plants two tomato plants in the beginning of the summer. In June, they produce 8 and 5 tomatoes. In July, because of slugs, her production is down to 3 and 5 tomatoes. Then Allison brings over beer from our house to reduce the slug population. In August, the plants produce 9 and 8 tomatoes. How many did she get by the end of the summer?
- Katherine’s classroom goes to the Space Needle for a class trip. There are 20 children. The elevator can take only 5 at a time. How many trips does the elevator need to make?
- Mom and Dad are walking thru the Costa Rica rainforest. We look up and see 5 monkeys. Each monkey has eaten 2 bananas. How many peels should we see on the ground?
Allison is bringing home amazing preschool works. This one caught my attention: “thE LIYIN FISH has SPICKS that can make you sick and make you diy Love ALLISON” Transcribed it says, “The lion fish has spikes that can make you sick and make you die. Love Allison” Her classroom is studying the ocean and different type of fish, hence the study of lion fish. Katherine and I both looked at the drawn picture, read Allison’s description and had to smile. ๐
Both girls are reading up a storm. They recently finished a Geronimo Stilton book about cheese pyramids and moved on to Rainbow Fairy Magic books. Katherine can mow through one in about 20 minutes (they’re pretty fast). Allison read a few chapters aloud last night; she’s a bit slower, but still able to make her way through the book well.
Katherine’s Sweet Shop
Since Katherine was home today with a low grade fever, we had some time to chat about what she wanted to do when she grows up. This is her description of what she wants to do:
- Katherine wants to run “Katherine’s Sweet Shop”
- She envisions Allison working part-time at her store. Since Allison has said she’d like to be a dentist, Katherine said that Allison can work full-time as a dentist above the sweet shop.
- Those kids who get cavities from the sweets can go to Allison to have their cavities filled.
- Both Katherine and Allison would live in a condo above the sweet shop, right next to the dentist office.
- The sweet shop would serve donuts for $1 a piece.
- And, it would serve healthy burgers, unlike Wendys.
- Mom would get a discount on candy.
Katherine has also used Word to create a menu for her sweet shop and drawn many pictures of her shop. As part of our visit to Boston, I told her we should visit Rosies, so she can see a successful bakery. I’m blown away by how intently she’s been thinking about this.