May. 9, 2006 - Art and Writing... and Jaedin found a bird

As Stephanie and I and our younger kids were eating, Jaedin was outside rescuing a bird from our cat's clutches.  He brought in this little sparrow and put it in a box.  Ever since writing class got over, he's been on the net searching for care tips... its not actually injured that badly.  It took off flying after Jaedin took it back out of the box.  I don't know if it was really flying, or if it was more "falling with style" ala Toy Story, but it was moving.

Right now he has it upstairs in a cage and has taken it a branch to perch on and built a base for a nest.

The kids and I all did paper marbling today for "art" class.  Not terribly artsy, maybe I should call it arts and crafts.  My PLAN was to have them do marbled paper and then make mother's day cards, but the paint isn't dry at all yet.  I guess that will kind of be homework.

The IEW writing course is almost over ~ what'll we do???  I want to still keep getting together.  At least every other week.  The kids would go nuts!  I hope we can figure something out!