Speaking of open ended art, I’ve been pretty frustrated at the complete lack of open endedness or ANY artisitc self expression at Kidlet’s school. At least in my son’s class. I’m not sure if that’s standard, or just his teacher. She’s been teaching 20 some odd years, but she taught second grade until last year.  […]
The theme for this week’s Open Ended Art project was simply “black and white”. Once again I wanted to go with the spirit of the challenge and provide only materials to him, without any specific project in mind, and without assisting or correcting in any way. He is old enough that it works.  When he was […]
So the other day I stayed after I volunteered in kidlets classroom long enough to see him go to lunch. Boy, he gives his lunch a beating. He swings his bag around, slams it down. It spends as much time upside down as it does right side up. Because I send his bento in a […]
Because of the kidlet’s early history (he is adopted, was badly neglected the first six months of his life, and was very delayed), we did our own version of homeschooling from the time he was very little. At first we worked with an early head start program; after the adoption was final we didn’t qualify […]
Today is an inservice day in our school district, so no school. Probably no bento either. I have a question for you moms out there though … how much does your child eat for a snack when they get home from school? The kidlet has breakfast around 7am. I *try* to give him a decent […]
I decided to participate (or rather, have the kidlet participate!) in the Open-Ended Art Projects posted over at Growing and Learning by Leaps and Bounds. This week the theme is Fall Colors: Red, Yellow, Orange and Brown. [Apparently the creator of that site has elected to delete thier blog. This was sudden, as they had […]
The other day while I was volunteering in the kidlet’s classroom, I noticed that another child used the exact same AM snack container as we did. Since they have snack outside right before recess, and the containers get dumped into a basket to be carried back inside, I figured we could end up getting the […]
Thank yous to Foodie Footsteps for the Over the Top Award! It’s always nice to get a shout out from a site that you enjoy yourself!    The rules of this award are to: answer the questions with only one worded answers (those are below)- thank the blogger who gave it to you […]
So bento-ing and my attempts to be involved at the school may have gotten me into trouble! Each year, the schools foundation holds an auction to raise money to help keep positions in the school that the state isn’t able to maintain anymore. Although a public school, the neighborhood is fairly affluent (we’re kind of […]
Welcome to Kid Friendly Friday, with Mr. Linky hosted over at I Blame my Mother. I’m not much of a baker. It’s generally too much work and requires too much preciseness for me to really enjoy it, ESPECIALLY with the kidlet.  Getting exactly one cup of this and 25g of that and 2 teaspoons of […]
