The glue sticks are NOT chapstick! She brought me one and said, “glue?” Yes, glue! For crafts and papers, not for lips, I think she’s got it. We were up late last night and the night before, so we’re all chillin’ today and going to play at BK in the afternoon. Hannah has learned a few new things like: High five rhymes, like ‘up high, down low, side, side, you’re a geek!’ (It’s supposed to be in the creek, you’re a geek.) Other favorites are (repeat the first few lines and then add…..): in the house, you’re a mouse; in the box, you’re a fox; get the ant, you’re a plant. But, her favorite is ‘you’re a geek.’

Lately I feel like I’m in blue’s clue’s house.
We have green sticky notes with names of things and pictures on them. Here is fish, here is table, cabinet, refrigerator, etc.



I made some of these for Joel when he was little, now they come in post-it notes. Yeah, they are cool, but I still feel like a teletubbie might pop out at me at any minute.

Joel has an elluminate session tomorrow for math. It’s really cool. There’s a web program called Ellumiate and you log in to a specific program, like Algebra lesson 1. There is a student list, whiteboard, symbols for raising your hand to ask a question, it’s cool. We’ve played around with it a couple of times now and had fun. Bethany got her book and was up to chapter 4 last night. I said, ‘You were only supposed to read chapter 1! Just kidding read away.’ I don’t care if she reads the whole thing in one session. She found a typo in her math problem the other day and fixed it, I think that means grammar is going well (it was a word not a number that was typo-ed.) Grace is going through Europe in history. She’s done Spain, France, England and Ireland. I think Russia is next. I found an art book for global art, which I’ll use to reinforce the lessons. She read Ferdinand the bull for Spain, Madeline for France, etc. That’s neat that they add in an appropriate book for each country. I need to find the Africa books we used a long time ago, they were really good. Hannah can really put together some sentences now. She can tell on you if you do something wrong or take something from her. Sometimes it’s hard for me to understand her, but I’ll just ask questions to figure out what she wants. It doesn’t help that she adds an ‘e’ to everything (milk-e, dor-e, blank-e.) If she wants a drink it’s going to be milk-e, apple duice or Hannah duice (orange Gatorade.) I guess she’s not as hard to understand as I make her out to be.