Posted in Before FIAR book activities
The Little Rabbit is a Before FIAR title. We did this one for Maddy, though she didn’t end up loving it as much as Ted used to. We enjoyed the go-along Rabbits and Raindrops by Jim Arnosky.Sunday was another Cub Scout event, earning their Geology Belt Loop at the Gem Show. This one was pretty interesting, actually, though the activities didn’t work quite as well as they should have. The kids had a hard time labeling the black and white chart of the volcano (it would have helped for the kids to have a color chart to reference). Still, this field trip was free of charge for the boys, and they did love it. They did a play dough activity about the layers of the earth and how plates shift and move the layers, and an erosion activity involving sucking on a piece of candy. They also got a brief tour of some of the more fascinating exhibits, like rocks that look like food and some that glowed in the dark (radioactive).
Monday was the Tigers’ visit to the fire station. Daddy took Ted to this one. It was the same station we’d visited earlier this year, which was kind of neat.
We did not have storytime this week, and we did have a doctors’ appointment, more a checkup to see how the kids were doing since it had been so long, and I had some questions too. We did all three of us at once, but for once there wasn’t a long wait, and it actually went well. I was pleased, because I like our family doctor, just not the waits.
Another tooth of Ted’s began to be loose, and Ted read to us all by himself, Arthur’s Tooth, which is one of his new favorites.
We added a little cactus to our plant table in the front window, to go with our science reading of One Small Square: Cactus Desert. And Maddy enjoyed a video we found secondhand, “Backstage at the Ballet.”
Saturday, due to some random web game searching, Lysle stumbled across a little gem called Crayon Physics (http://www.crayonphysics.com/ is the new website with a for-sale version, and http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/ is the blog Lysle found it and other games on). The kids were fascinated, and now it’s one of Ted’s favorites.
Also this week was a local science fiction and gaming convention. Lysle and his buddies declined to attend this year, due to high prices and not enough fun gaming. However, for once they were hosting an author whose works I actually like, so I decided to go, and meet some of my friends there. It was a disappointing experience. The author and her husband were both outgoing personalities, with a lot of humorous anecdotes to share, but many of the anecdotes were disdainful ones about annoying fans they’d had … which led to comments about fans and amateur writers in general, which was, when you think about it, pretty insulting to the assembled audience, most of whom were both fans and amateur writers. It made me think rather less of this particular author. However, having a weekend to do something totally frivolous just for me was rather fun. In spite of everything.
