The girls have been off school an awful lot lately. They had their week of spring break, then another day off for Easter, then Julia was off two days because of next year's kindergarteners, then they were off this Thursday afternoon and Friday for some dumb reason. And we compounded the situation by taking them out of school to take them to the Kalahari indoor water park. All in all, it's amazing that they're learning anything at all lately.
And they are learning. Allie is tackling some cool stuff in math--geometry, division, multiplication, even some basic algebra (though they don't call it that). She's also doing some bizarre and complicated words in spelling, including "miscellaneous," "accommodate," and "quadriceps." How many adults know how to spell miscellaneous? We all know we just abbreviate it. Meanwhile, Julia is plowing ahead with her sight reading words and she now likes to sit next to me while I read something and tell me the words she knows on the page.
And wonder of wonders. Last night, Julia found the book she checked out last October from the school library that had immediately gone missing into the miasma that is our household. We started getting late notices in November and the school hasn't allowed her to check out any additional books because they didn't get "Angelina in the Wings" back. I was seriously going to just pay the school for the book so she could have full library privileges again.
Yesterday, the girls played outside for a good chunk of the day and the temperature was over 80 degrees. Julia wanted to get out the swimming pool. I successfully restrained her. It is still just April, after all.
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Tell the girls the pool is open at their Grandparents house.Maybe then we can get you guys in gear for a visit. Dave has been talking about fishing in your neck of the woods. He is going to have a good summer. New car. Going to the Big Horn in June. I think he started going in fall of 1987. Same year we had the pool put in. What else could he need or want! Hugs. Marcia
I had an argument about getting the paddling pool out today as well.
The reason I refused wasn't due to fears about the kids being cold (the hughes are a hardy bunch), but because I couldn't be bothered blowing the bugger up.
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