There's a friendly Star?

Our first activity in school this morning was to go outside and write with chalk on the concrete, as a fun way of going over the week’s spelling words. Then we had another little activity of definitions, where they had to define objects properly – so for “cat”, instead of saying, “it’s something that is furry and says meow”, they should say “it’s an animal which is furry and says meow”. Then I described an object to them, which they had to write down – eg “for baseball you need a ball and ….”. All the answers were, of course, also our week’s spelling words. Then we had the phonics workbooks, handwriting workbooks, some essay dictation, and some retelling of a story told to them. After tenzees we did maths, which was still easy, then the reading, history and Charlotte’s Web. We finished at 11.40 today, a good 20 minutes earlier than any other day. I hurried out to town after lunch, as I needed to go to the police station to renew my drivers’ license, but got there while they were on lunch so couldn’t do it, and to the Archives department in the Castle, but they were also on lunch. Took a quick walk up to the Emporium for a few school goodies, and walked past “The Star” – Solomon’s grocery shop in Jamestown (otherwise known as “The Spar”) has been renamed, in keeping with the Jamestown heritage and something something. Yesterday the signage still said Spar, and today there is already a new sign up. Quick work, since it was only announced last night! I was home again by 1, and then had to get stuck in with the preparations for today’s craft class, which took me the better part of the hour – I had to score fold lines for their paper bags, to make them easier to fold. At 2 I went for the class, and it was really such a good one today. The kids are well behaved for the most part, and managed fine with the craft. We all did one together, as I showed them step by step what to do, and then they made another one, two, or three by themselves, depending on how quickly they worked. I was so pleased that they got on with them though, without needing too much help after that. They seemed to enjoy it! Home shortly after 3, then had to quickly get the prayer meeting notes ready for Nick to take, as he left early this evening – instead of leaving at 5 for bible study, he left at 4 to be able to do a visit beforehand. His supper was a snackwich.