Wrapping up school

A kid and craft post all in one today because Friday was Rainforest Animal Project Day at Z's school. And Z's animal was the Spectacled Owl. So I designed (my very first design!) a felt owl to sew and we made a diorama for it which Z did almost all the work on (I help with the tougher sewing on the owl and sawing the branch and writing the bigger words onto the leaf cutouts so they would fit, but Z did everything else entirely)

First is the Owl hand puppet



And then here is the diorama in the classroom. The Owl was in its diorama rarely because everyone wanted to fly him around the room. Hee!



All that is left of school is game day (today), tomorrow's promotion ceremony and the last day of school at the beach on Friday. And then kindergarten is over. *sigh*

Still nothing really to post about.

But here's a pic of B! (My current pics of Z involve most of his classmates and they may not like me posting them here)

In Z news though, we have signed him up for 2 classes this summer, including swim lessons for two weeks in August with his good friend and tennis lessons starting next week (he seems to enjoy it whenever he gets a chance to play). I'm trying to keep the summer pretty low key. Lots of outdoor time, not a whole lot of scheduled activities but regular ones like pool on Monday, park on Tuesday, playdate on Wednesday, etc etc., that sort of thing.

And I'm excited to see what school next year brings. He will likely be going to a male teacher who is new to the school (but not to teaching) and is apparently very musical and also very interested in outdoor education, both things I am interested in more then the classroom based, recorded music based learning he has had this year. Fingers crossed on this one for sure! I don't mean to be mean about it (altough that kind of sounded it) but I really think that children should be making the music they sing, not singing along to recordings.

Happy Father's Day

a day late, but we were off celebrating yesterday. Brunch out, then a little Sporting Goods store window shopping and then a full afternoon at the beach running in the shallow parts and digging in the sand and exploring for rocks, shells and beach glass. But I have been bad about bringing the camera with me lately, so I have no photographic evidence of this.

My favorite parts though?

-B saying 'mere ocean. 'mere

-Z running in the surf with DH trying to find cool rocks. And of course each one was cooler then the one before it. I never thought he cuold sustain that for hours, but then again, I guess I forgot to account for the fact that he is 6!

-DH finally getting his dual line delta stunt kite up in the air. He has been trying for ages to do it and had so little luck that it was pretty exciting that he finally did it.