Cars 2 with Cubscouts!

Before the show the curtains were pretty and colorful!

Here's Lighting in Cars 2. It's 3D, so come of the back cars look blurry

After the movie, we went to the back activity area, they had a LEGO McQueen!

There's Mater

And McQueen!

Building racecars to race down the slides (pic below)

C and I went down this slide, it was a lot of fun!!

A tire themed activity area

C with some of his Cub Scout troop

Family pic with the same green screen above. C chose the image.

Spoons Levitating in Mid-air???

If you look carefully, you'll see 3 spoons in mid-air, while C holds one spoon.  Does homeschooling include Harry Potter-like lessons?

Nope, this is Science! Almost fooled you didn't we? We're doing experiments with understanding pendulums and how the length of the string affects the timing of each swing.

C Received an Award!!!

C received an award for having the most reading minutes in the entire school!  I'm really proud of him. :-)

He told me when he first discovered that they were keeping logs of reading, "I'm #2 right now, in my class for the reading minutes. I want to be the #1".

I told him it's great that he has a goal. I told him if he has a strong will to do something, he's going to do it!

He's always reading without being told, and the minutes we put down weren't really ALL the minutes we should have put down.  They allow us to put down books we've read to him, but we never wrote those down. We only kept record of what he read, and we didn't count comic books or easy readers at that.

It was great seeing him receive his award at the Awards Ceremony for 2nd Grade.

I felt sad that they didn't tell me they were going to have an ice-cream reward for the top readers the next day.  So, even though he was #1 he didn't get to have any ice cream at school. Poor guy...  :-(

When we walked home, I told him how sad I felt with him that he was excluded from the celebration, because the teachers didn't tell me.  These are the situations that really make me want to homeschool him. He doesn't need more heart-ache! (Am I being too over-protective?)

I have him a very big scoop of coconut milk based Chocolate ice cream and he also wanted Mango Sherbet on a gluten-free cone.  I had one too, Chocolate it was cooling and delicious!  I told him how proud I was of him that he set out towards a goal and he attained it!

Congrats C!!! :-D

Funny Anectdote

It was a warm, but breezy day...a perfect cool under the Holly Cherry Tree where I was waiting for C to arrive on the school bus in front of the nearby elementary school. (C attends a "Primary Center" that is 2 blocks further north instead of this nearby school because the district is trying something "new".

A woman walks up the sloped walkway towards me, and I recognized it was the District Nurse.  We've spoken a few times in the past regarding C's severe food allergies.  She walked up and said, "Mrs. K right?  I just saw C the other day, we were at his school to give the children Colorblind tests.  He's so funny too!"  I cordially greeted her back and asked, "Yes, he's is funny, why was he so funny this time?"  She replied as she mimicked his matter-of-fact tone, "Well, he said 'You know, I'm NOT a 1st grader!'"  She continued with an indignant tone mimicking C, 'Why do I have to do this? Why are you doing this to me? I can see color fine!'

Oh geez, questioning Authority... yeap... he does that a LOT unless you explain why you're doing what you are.  He won't take orders blindly, he's been like that since he was little.  It's cute when they're little, but will be labeled a misfit/rebel in his teens! Yikes... I do try to teach him to be respectful to adults the best I can...