Sunday, December 16, 2018

Show and Tell / Ballet

The second graders at the school get invite their parents up for a time of Show and Tell.  They work on it at school for weeks.  It's a good idea, but wasn't implemented too well.  They brought us all in to the gym, separated the kids into about 8 groups and we sat and watched the group with our kid in it.  It was too loud to even hear what our kids were saying.  Luckily, Truett was in a group with his two best friends, which was nice.
Truett talked about this little pup he named Retriever.  If you remember, he was paid to be in a movie a few months ago.  This is what he chose to spend his money on.  It was about $40 and Michael and I thought that was too much for this little thing.  But, it was his money and it's what he wanted, so he bought it.  It ended up that was the best use of his money.  He and Paisley love that dog!
 

 

 Paul and Zahra, Truett's best friends.  Paul is French/Indonesian and Zahra is African/Indian/Indonesian.


 
Paisley had a little ballet exam recently.  She scored "highly commended," and I believe she and her best friend had the highest grades in the class.  She loves to dance!  She's moving her body every chance she has.
 


 

Friday, December 7, 2018

Getting Creative

Do you remember a couple of months ago, Paisley and I went with some friends to a village nearby?  We did lots of fun traditional thing, but we also went to a pine forest.  Paisley LOVED picking up the pinecones and was so excited for Christmas to come around so we could paint them.  Well, it has finally come around and we decided to do a little pinecone painting and glittering!

 

These girls are the best of friends!





Truett has a book about science experiments.  One day Paisley was interested in finding one to do.  So we learned how to color paper. 
(I realize Paisley is wearing the same dress as in the other pictures, but it's a different day)

Gathering supplies

Reading the instructions

Mashing up the chalk

 Adding the chalk to oil (and probably some glitter, too.  You can never have too much glitter, right?)


Dipping the paper

Maybe one day we will actually write letters on these papers!