Abstract painters

Morning Serenade : Lean On Me, by the ukelele students, and an impromptu chorus

Pangaea Mural gets the first coat of paint

Field trip to the transportation museum

Doodling

Jumping for Joy

Finally, I am (on 9-1-19) professionally certified in NY! Also, on 9-14-19, I'll have tenure in the RCSD!! Yay, ME!!!! (Well, who else is gonna toot that horn?)

Well done! You stuck it out for 4 years! You are a paperwork genius!!! The Principal sort of likes you, sometimes. (Can't have everything.)

Now, if we can just keep the Student Loan Forgiveness Program going for at least the next 7 years, I'll be satisfied. Those of us with crushing debt deserve it. We're trying to change the world, one kid at a time, and it's not easy.

Why did they park it here? Where all the buses unload the children?

This lovely machine was sitting in the bus loop all morning. 

Sunday Morning Knitting

Well, these are pictures from 2 weeks ago, when I thought (mistakenly) that the Stupid Bronchitis Episode was over. Liza and I sat on her deck and knitted. We drank some fresh black currant juice (garden grown) which was tasty.

Yeah, I know I take too many flower pictures, but it's not like I'm wasting film, or anything. I love digitality.

If only the seven-year-olds could understand this

Personal best

GCV&M

We Did Some Writing With Duck Quills, and Sharpened Sticks

And, it turned out pretty well.

Buddy reading and field trip

We visited Ms. Amy's class to buddy up with the big kids for some reading goodness.

The Fabulous Five were my group at the Gennesee Country Village and Museum.

Aren't they cute?

We saw a lot of stuff, including this chicky-chicky-chicken.

I think they rolled down this hill about 50 times each. Surprisingly, nobody threw up. 

Cash for Excellent Behavior: Transformer Bucks!

We've developed our own currency system. On the first day, the kids earned enough money to buy themselves a chair! Our chairs have wheels, so you need a lot of self-control to stay safe.

Planting Basil Seeds on Day One of Summer School

Day Two of Summer School: Making Crockpot Bread

Everybody got a chance to mix and make their own bread roll. Our chant was: squish, squish, roll, squish, squish, roll. We dropped them into the crock and 90 minutes later, we had bread!

Making butter

I shook a half pint of heavy cream for about 30 minutes, and voila! Butter!
I put about a teaspoon of salt in it, until it tasted right to me. Poor me. Now I have to eat this delicious creamy goodness.

Crock Pot Bread is Today's Cooking Project

I'm practicing this today because we're doing this project in class on Tuesday, and I don't want any surprises.
Here's the link to our slideshow.

It tasted pretty good, especially with the homemade butter, which is the other part of Tuesday's class.

Taking a class online about how to paint water.

I haven't really done any realistic kind of painting for a long time. So this is a little bit uncomfortable. I think I need a lot more practice.

Hello, summer school.

I'll be co-teaching with a friend of mine. The program is a national summer enrichment/camp/project based learning experience called Horizons.

https://www.horizonsnational.org/about/