This morning I was last minute in charge of our 10:30 art class at the clubhouse. I had the kids color a ghost or skeleton with white crayon onto black paper and then add googly eyes. While they were busy, I read them a couple of Halloween books.
After lunch I let Luke play his Zelda game. At one point he got angry and was yelling at Isabel to stay away from the cord. She then started screaming because Luke grabbed her and pinched her. I just ignored them both, turned off Zelda and put on a Scholastic Halloween movie. Luke sulked off and wrote this poem...
Nobody likes me.
Nobody cares.
Nobody asks me to be friends.
We used to play.
But now we're board.
Fun used to live.
But now fun's dead.
What a little emo kid! I've been feeling pretty lazy this afternoon, so right now I am counting down the minutes until it is time to go to our friends house for dinner and then trick-or-treating.
This morning we went to the library. In the car we listened to Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic poems. We got a BUNCH of stuff and like always, Sylvia managed to almost get us kicked out. When we got home, Luke and Isabel went through the loot. Luke is now reading Hatchet and another Magic Tree House book.
After lunch, Luke wrote more about his story where there are tubes you crawls through with rats, spikes, and bombs in them. Gee, where do you think he got that idea from? Couldn't be his obsession with video games. Isabel did a lot of coloring in her coloring books today. She enjoys coloring things in neat and perfect whereas Luke enjoys plain white paper to create creatures on.
Isabel and I read her spelling book together. Ryan, Isabel and I made pumpkin cookies instead of doing Math since our copy machine isn't working (don't worry Joey, something minor, I just don't know what button to push.) This evening we received a Halloween package from Grandma and Grandpa Vincent with candy and coloring books in it. Isabel and Sylvia got right to work coloring pictures while I posed for Luke. He colored a portrait of me. It was so much fun watching him, so serious, every few seconds looking up at me from his paper. He has been coloring pictures lately that he wants to sell on the internet. Just like how his Uncle Justin does. See justinspaintings.com. I told him that in my blog I will post his pictures. So coming soon, Luke's pictures!!!
This morning I woke up early because I had a lot to do. Exercised, cleaned out the car, dishes, spelling lists, and I made Luke and Isabel Halloween booklets. I just Googled Halloween worksheet and found all kinds of Halloween word searches, crossword puzzles, mazes, word scrambles and coloring pages. They loved it and worked on them for awhile.
I read them a Halloween book, The Spider and the Fly, and made sure they did their Math and Writing. This afternoon they watched a scholastic Where the Wild Things Are cartoon and a Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Note about Ryan. From now on in the afternoons I will be watching my good friend Ashley's 3 year old, Ryan. So when I mention him you'll know!
