amelia – The Thing With The Stuff

The kids decided their professional goals over breakfast. Amelia is going to be a microbiologist, and Baxter is going to invent a microscope that can see inside of atoms. Amelia will get the first microscope Baxter makes.

Climber

Letter cards

Amelia came out of her room this morning with a set of “letter cards” she had made “for Baxter’s classroom.” I asked her how she imagined the kids in preschool using them, and as she tried to explain, I suggested she try to show Baxter how to use them. Hilarity ensued (for me at least). She’s ridiculously patient. An excerpt:

Amelia: “Now I’m going to teach you some double sounds.”

Baxter: “Ugh, I don’t know ANY double sounds.”

Amelia: “That’s why I’m going to teach you.”

Another game she made up with the “letter cards”:

She puts out three letters and explains to Baxter what they all are. Then she asks him to identify them back by asking, “Can you touch B? Can you blow a kiss to E? Can you sing C?”

I think it’s interesting she wants to teach the kids letters because at their school, all the kids focus on phonemes first, not letters. 🙂 That said, phoneme cards might be harder to make than just a bunch of slips of paper with letter on them.

Bax got silly pretty quick and the lesson devolved into play quite gracefully:

“It’s not time to be silly right now, Bax. OK, you’ve had enough learning.”

Pictures of the kids

Tom’s been in Texas caring for his dad for the last week, and I’ve been sending him lots of every-day photos of the kids. Here are some of my favorites.