P365 – Day 187 – disco fever!
Juniordwarf had been anticipating today for a couple of weeks. His school had a disco for all the kids after school – littlies at 3.15 and the big kids at 4.15. For $5 the kids got entry, pizza, a drink and a disco with a DJ – and a...
P365 – Day 148 turn your ears on please (28/05/2011)
Slabs and I are often entertained by Juniordwarf playing out various scenarios from his school day. One of his recent favourites is to announce that it’s now story time and one of us (me, usually) has to come and sit on the mat. He then sets up his chair...
P365 – Day 133 helping out (13/05/2011)
I signed up to do parent help at Juniordwarf’s class today. I had no idea what this would involve, other than that I’d be turning up and helping some of the children with an activity. I was the second cab off the rank. One of the other mums had...
P365 – Day 127 first project
I’ve had my new scrapbooking space for a couple of weeks now, but so far I’ve been too busy marvelling at how great it is to have my own space to actually make use of it. Well that’s pretty silly isn’t it?! So today I decided to tackle a...
P365 – Day 126 i love mum (6/5/2011)
Earlier in the week, Juniordwarf told me he’d made a flower at school. I said that sounded lovely, and asked if he was going to bring it home so I could see it. He said no. I didn’t give it much more thought, and then today when I picked...
P365 – Day 98 ahoy there, me hearties! (8/4/2011)
Today was Pirate Dress-Up day for Juniordwarf’s class. This is the first time costumes have been required. I’ve been dreading dress-up days, because I’m not much of a ‘crafty mama’ type. The thought of having to come up with something that looks a little bit like what my boy...
P365 – Day 84 assembly and the special steps
Today Juniordwarf’s kinder class participated in its first school assembly. Parents were welcome to attend, so there was no way I was going to miss this. Last night there was a wine and cheese evening at the school to welcome new kinder parents and give us a chance to...
P365 – Day 76 cutting it
A while ago, when it became apparent that Juniordwarf was left-handed, I bought some left-handed scissors for him, but he was never interested in cutting anything. Even when he had the opportunity at play group, he never made any attempt to use scissors. Now that they are doing cutting...
P365 – Day 75 athletic carnival
Today was the Kinder to Grade 2 Athletic Carnival at Juniordwarf’s school. He’d been very excited about it for the last week. From what I can tell, the Phys Ed teacher had been practising with the kinder kids what they needed to do in a running race. Juniordwarf had...
P365 – Day 69 pirate hat
School dropoffs are still a little traumatic. Juniordwarf is quite insistent that he doesn’t like school, he doesn’t want to go and he wants to go home – or to work with me. He isn’t convinced that my work is pretty boring and he’d have a much better time...