School stuff again

We had a ‘fun Friday’ in school today. During the week we’ve been reading a book called “Gooney Bird Greene”, about an eccentric little girl who dresses most unusually and likes to be smack in the middle of everything. Each day she went to school and told an absolutely true story to the class about something that had happened to her. For example, one morning she was late because she had to direct an orchestra. As it happened, she was on her way to school when a big red and white bus drove by, and the bus driver stopped and asked if she knew the way to the town hall, as he was driving the symphony orchestra there and didn’t know the way. She got on the bus and told the driver where to go, thus directing the orchestra! Very cleverly written. Anyway, yesterday afternoon I declared that we would all come to school today dressed up in a GBG style. Caleb came with an extra pair of underpants over his shorts, Aaron had two scarves wrapped around his neck, and I wore on odd combination of clothing! We started off the day with finishing the book, then did everything else more or less backwards, finishing the day with our science. It felt very peculiar, but was nice for a change.

Yesterday morning I sent the boys outside to write on the kitchen window with a window chalk I found in the shops. It’s nice stuff, like special paint for windows which is applied with a sponge tip applicator. I thought it would be fun, but the boys didn’t really. Caleb got it all over himself and couldn’t get the right amount of liquid chalk to come out, so it ended up running down the window in a long blob. Aaron managed better, but I guess when Caleb gave up he did too.