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. 

My Alyce Bundt Pan

 

I just unboxed this.  It makes a perfect fruit bowl when it's not in my oven.  It matches much of my other Polish pottery.  Do you like my curtain?  It's just a tablecloth that I never get around to using between meals.

LINC Chess K-12 Tournament

Ready for his opponent.

See this little fellow?  It's hard to get him out of the house.  We started homeschooling in part because we've gotten more than one "your child just ran away and we are looking for him" phone call from the school.  He tends to elope when he's overwhelmed.  So going to an all-day chess tournament was a big step for him. 

Rose drew two games!

LINC Chess made it happen!  The director made sure he had his own table, and Woodjie's hired assistant was better able to watch him without interfering with the other players. They want to make sure every K-12 age child in the community can play chess, and although they're funded through the schools, that includes the homeschooled kid outside their area of the metro.

Thanks for a great tournament!

If you're interested in finding out more about LINC Chess, or in signing up for their May 4 tournament at Hickman Mills, click here.

Emperor is the K-12 Champion!  He won a trophy, and a spider chess set with a case.

Some Pictures.

Instead of throwing away my eggs from *January,* I left 'em in the fridge in a separate bowl.  Boiled them and let the kids decorate them and hide them outside. 

We never did find them all.  Maybe our handy yardwork guy (aka Dad) will see them later.

The realities of sharing a room.  When you want to stay up late and giggle about your Star Wars book, you have to sit in the hallway in your jammies.

Say hi to the Elf!  It's been a while since he allowed me to take his picture, but this time, he probably figures he owes me one.  Several calls to the plumber over what should have been an easy fix have been going on of late.  Finally, much panic happened downstairs as the older children were "fixing" the toilet themselves and knocked over the toilet tank lid.  I'm just glad no one was hurt, although with no lid, our downstairs toilet does look kinda... trashy.  Works now, though. :) 

March Zoo Pics

We just renewed our membership, so you can expect many more zoo pictures in the months ahead.  Hope you had a great weekend!