Good Morning, everybody!
Tina, glad you're back amongst the living...and healthy!
I hear you on the kids. Trying to teach for these last couple days is pretty worthless, eh? Like trying to teach the day after Halloween when all of them are hyped up on chocolate and sugar from the night before.
Hope it's a great day!
Quote:
May your day be full of light and other nice things.
Ah,
Ruth, I like that a lot!
Light sure is a nice thing...a coworker told me we're close to the winter solstice (tomorrow?), so we'll be getting more light slowly until spring. Yay!!!
I hope you pamper yourself, hon. Don't make yourself stand any more than you have to. When I hurt my leg, DH brought down a desk chair for me (like a typing chair) that had wheels and I rolled all over the kitchen!
Just be careful, okay?
Kara, you're making me sniffle!
What darlings your little ones are! Reading is SOOOO important for them...and learning to love reading is just as important, IMHO. I'm so glad you've made it something special enough that they even want to do it on their own.
Your group work idea is inspired--I never even thought of doing that!
Do you teach besides your AWANA work?
Wowsee-wow,
Cat!!! That's such a
very special gift for your mom! I love that you're helping your mom continue to celebrate your parents' anniversary.
A great website for reading skill development for little ones (up to at least 3rd grade, if not later, depending on skill level), is the PBS site for
Between the Lions (a great show!). There are great activities there, but I especially like the videos. They are like very updated versions of the things I learned on Sesame Street or Schoolhouse Rock when I was a kid!
Kara, I don't know a ton about what kids at that age should be able to do on a computer, but they can do a whole lot more with the mouse than they can in the real world. It's like combining gross motor skills with fine motor...but they don't have to make their hands do the fine motor stuff...just line up the cursor or pointer. Alphabet games or games that make you use the letters and numbers on the keyboard can be a great way to introduce them to the way the keyboard is set up and make them ready to learn to type later.
Me:
Oh, I'm definitely sick again.
It's my own darn fault. I had to send a couple of e-mails to work last night for the various projects I'm working on, but I had over 140 e-mails to wade through. I got through them all, but didn't go to bed until 2.
Oy! Today's the last day of work, thankfully, so I think I'll be getting more sleep from here on out. Thankfully I'll have a week off in January before going back to work.
I'm planning on doing Christmas cards at work today. I just have to make sure I get myself away from the computer first!
Have a great day, chicks! Stay well and happy!