Last night Sid picked the kids up early to go to the sprayground... The sprayground, for those of you that don't live with a heat index of 110 degrees, is an outdoor playground that sprays water all over the play equipment much like playing in the backyard sprinkler but on a clean, soft surface. Then they all picked up a quick dinner and hustled Sunil over to his swim lesson.
I went directly to 2nd grade curriculum night. The teachers got to explain their game plan for the year and answer questions (mostly to pertaining to why there wont be any spelling tests this year). They got me hooked, I'd love to take second grade from any of these ladies. Sheela's teacher, by the way, has her Master's degree in teaching children to read and the lead teacher is a science nut. In case you're bothered by the lack of spelling tests, studies have proven time and time again that children don't learn to spell the words on the spelling tests, they just know them long enough to pass the test. They do get spelling during their group reading, draft book writing, social studies and math classes. Strangely enough, in third grade the spelling tests will be back.
We all met back at the house just in time for Claire and Travis to come over so that Coach could attend the coach's meeting. We played Frisbee, we played soccer, we played tag and keep away. We took tours of Sunil's new bed. We played hide and seek.
The Sharmas went to visit a friend in for the night from out of town so they missed most of the chaos.
Coach brought us back our game schedules. Both kids have all of their games on Saturdays, unfortunately, they did not put the games back to back like we were hoping. Almost every week the games are three hours apart or more and sometimes at two different parks. Twice Sunil will have conflicts with his music class. At least we don't have any games that are at the same time and different parks.
After the kids went to bed, I pulled all of the clothes out of the "give-away" pile (the left half of my closet from the knees down) and put them in the living room. Mommy (and yes, we do pronounce that "mummy") will sort through them today. Some of the kids clothes they will take to India in September to give away. The rest will go in the garage sale. I borrowed two craft tables so that I will be able to lay all of this stuff out for sale tomorrow.
Tomorrow will be another busy day.....
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3 comments:
Gosh, what a schedule! I am in awe of your family's keeping its sanity! Sounds fun ... I miss you guys!
Brian and I are enjoying your blog - Brian is especially impressed with your active lifestyle.
So, tell us again - when is it, exactly, that you find time to blog?
;-)
The blogging is easy to fit in... I've been, er, blessed with a desk job which I dearly love (especially the parts where I'm not at my desk) but along with the job comes the occaisional time wwsted holding for other people on the phone. It's an ideal time to catch up.
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