I’m bored

Which means we’ll be going up to Pine Junction today and Bailey to the hot dog stand. School? We’ll grab our books to read and do some math by the river. I got the 411 on Joel’s SAREX tomorrow, I love the way CAP puts everything in letters! See if you can decode: ATTN: The SAREX will be at DJC on Sat. 0800. GTL and GTM will be doing missions all day. Your POC is Lt. Beer, bring your SQTR and disregard change notice on IAPP. UOD is BDU’s. The only things I need to know: meet at the Denver jet center at 0800 on Saturday morning with Joel in battle dress uniform and with his squad training paper in hand. What’s really funny is that James has a flight lesson at 1100, so Joel may be the one bringing in his plane or telling it where to go when they land. They are rotating positions again so Joel will be tracking planes, handling planes, guiding planes on the runway and other stuff. This is his second favorite thing to do in CAP (first would be ground team search and rescue, which this is a part of.)

Also I’m trying to figure out how to teach negative numbers without confusing Bethany. Right now I tell her that you can’t take 7 away from 4, but Joel is doing problems like x-7 = -3, so x must be 4. I guess I’ll just let her in on the secret that you can have negative numbers (like if you bounce a check in your account, suddenly you realize there are a lot of numbers under 0!) I think the best way to teach neg. numbers is translating it to real life, a checking account or digits under 0 relating to temperature. I know I have fake money around here and a blank check book somewhere, I’ll let them play bank and even if they are on the ball – I’ll throw in some bank fees that make their balance go under $0 (and then the real fun begins!) I like kinesthetic stuff too, I already drew a huge number line on the sidewalk, but Joel erased it. I’ll draw that again and have them hop the numbers as they do problems….I’ll have to make it a little bigger this time. You can get a lot of school done with 1 stick of chalk!

We also just got in the dance schedule for September and everyone’s excited. Grace will dance first hour, then Bethany has 1 hour of ballet. Then Hannah and Bethany have dance and then ……me. Yes, I signed up too, I will be dancing with them at recital in December. Now if Bethany tells me how hard her song is I can say, ‘See mine? It’s hard too!’ Hannah thinks every time I put her hair in a bun she’s going to dance, and this is her first session! She would try to sneak into Grace’s class last semester and stay there so she could join in, now she’ll have her own class. So, in a few weeks I’ll be buying new shoes, tights and leotards for almost everyone. Yeah for dance!