End-of-Year Celebrations

EVERY time we finish a subject for the school year, it's time for a celebration.  This was part of our maths celebration.  Today's bundt cake will be a lemon language arts celebration!  We'll count that as home ec.  Yummers.

We have more time for games and trips to the park.  Woodjie LOVES Candy Land.

Apparently we removed our kid's nose somehow.  Ok, anyway... Rose has been busy playing with the new IQ Fit game.  It's full of brain-teasing puzzles. 

American Academy of Pediatrics: Send Your Kid to School With Lice

Why bother to do the considerate thing and wait until your child is completely nit-free before shipping her off to school to share combs?  Schools really need the state money and your kid?  Works for the school.

I mean, you can go to school with lice eggs all over yourself.  You don't feel sick with lice and lice can't jump, so it should be okie-dokie and all the other parents ought to be perfectly happy about it when your kid shows up with the cooties.  It's not as though lice could, you know, hatch during the day and spread or anything.  As long as the entire class of 30 exuberant kindergarteners somehow never touch each other during circle time, play time, lunch time or any other of a hundred activities they participate in daily, it's not a problem.

And really.  How hard can that be?

I can't believe this is a real recommendation but apparently?  Yeah.

Congrats to Emperor!

Emperor answered 39 of 40 questions correctly, barely missing a perfect score on the National Latin Exam.  He's hanging his ribbon up in his room as I type this.