Dorothy's A-to-Z pre-K book

Pre-k graduation photo

The kids were asked to submit words about their teacher.  Dorothy said:

"She's very nice to me and I love her.  She's the best teacher in the world.  She does Clifford readers.  My favorite thing is Clifford readers.  The most fun thing we did was on St. Patrick's Day.  There was glitter on the floor, my chair was tipped over, the kitchen was turned backwards, the blocks were all over block center, the cars were all over block center, too, the easel was written on, there was something painted on it and there was felt on the floor.  Ms. Cail loved it."

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Wacky Tacky Wednesday

The tall weed continues to grow

What I Want to Be When I Grow-up dress-up day at (virtual) school

A few kids dressed-up as Wonder Woman and Cinderella.  Dorothy reasoned, "Oh, I bet they don't have costumes for what they really want to be when they grow-up, so they're just wearing the costumes they do have."

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy started to take the cushions off the couch.  "That's too much mess," I said.  "You already have all the markers spilled, and the Frozen toys.  That's a lot to pick up."  Dorothy tossed a couch cushion and said, "It's worth it!"

I downloaded a Peppa Pig game for Dorothy.  I haven't watched her play it, but I'm guessing it's a game where you collect toys and are then awarded a pair of golden boots.  I'm guessing this because when Dorothy was begging me to let her play the game again, she said, "Aren't you curious to see what happens when I collect all the toys and get the golden boots?"

I asked Dorothy the time.  "Eight eighty," she said.  "Tell me the numbers," I followed.  "Eight, dot on the top, dot on the bottom, zero, eight," she answered.

Dorothy was listening to an audiobook of Because of Winn Dixie, a juvenile fiction book which references the Civil War.  Brian and I exchanged a look, wondering if we were willing to answer any questions that came up.  Dorothy didn't dwell on it, but the next day, there was an ad on t.v. for a Civil War documentary.  "Wait," Dorothy asked me, "The Civil War really happened?"

Quarantine visit from a squirrel

The puddle that looks like an animal

Dorothy (the photographer) selected this picture for the blog

Sprinkler weather

Volunteer Garden Brigade

Fairy house

This weekend we took a drive at a nature preserve to look at alligators

The Sunday Funnies (The Science Edition)

Dorothy asked, "If a lizard is on water, will it turn clear?"

She also wants to know if lightning gets wet.

Somehow I asked the difference between a frog and a toad; Dorothy told me that a toad is an old frog.

Dorothy looked at a book that had drawings of Adam and Eve, and then asked, "If Adam and Eve looked like that, then how were the first black and brown people born?

I have explained involuntary muscles, which Dorothy now refers to as "unvolunteering".

Dorothy asked me to read a book about space for quite a long time; I thought it was a bit above our heads but she kept urging me on.  Later, I overheard her tell Brian, "That book has a chapter on every planet, and I didn't understand anything it said!"

Dorothy was listening to an audiobook in her room, and I guess she was doing a few other things too

Mama's heart grew 3 sizes that day

Dirt freckles

Some Assembly Required

Homemade Chutes & Ladders

If you could study the board, you'd see that rolling a #1 on your first turn will take you right to the winner's square.

Raggedy Ann art

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy has a book with stories of "radical women".  One story was about a child born as a boy who liked wearing dresses and wanted to be a girl.  Dorothy asked why he was included in the book.  I said, "Maybe he asked, 'Please, pretty please, put me in the book.'"  "Oh, I get it," Dorothy responded knowingly, "pretty..."

We've been watching a yoga show for kids on YouTube.  The first day's story was about the Wizard of Oz, which might have subconsciously influenced Dorothy's repetition of "namaste" as "witches never stay."

On this yoga show, the host is in front of a green screen with a background of the day's theme (such as the Land of Oz or the Frozen castle).  Today, she was standing in a garish, cartoonish living room, and with coronavirus on her mind, Dorothy said, "Oh, this time she's doing it at her home!"

The Quarantine Interview (I)

Video:  https://youtu.be/SFwYVjvDllk

This work is happening at our corner

Then we did a mine-the-Earth art project

Earth Day project for school

This is Cosmic Kids Yoga on YouTube. We recommend it!

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy was making rhyming sentences, like "'It's me!' said the tea."  "'Let's cook!' said the cook," she added.  I told her that the sentence didn't rhyme because it used the exact same word twice, and she said, "Yes, the same word, but in a different way."

A YouTube video taught Dorothy the joke about what has a head and a tail but no body (a coin).  I teased her and asked what has a tail but no head and no body (a kite).  She thought for a while and then added, "What has a head but no tail and no body?  An emoji!"

We heard news about the possibility of sports being reopened sans spectators.  Dorothy posed that baseball would be a good sport to open, since the players just throw the ball to each other, and they wear gloves.

"Go to bed now," I said.  "Daddy and I are going to watch a grown-up movie."  "I don't like it when you leave me out, " Dorothy whined.

We were reading a book that included the words "knock knock knock".  "How does that say 'knock'," Dorothy asked, "but there's a silent Kk?"

Cement trucks are laying the bike path near our house

Police dog in our backyard

We had some excitement today as the police chased 4 burglars through our neighborhood.  There was lots of fence-jumping from the cops and the perps, plus a helicopter search.

I was looking through my phone screenshots last night and apparently Dorothy took lots of pictures while FaceTiming with her cousin using a silly app

Make-your-own kaleidoscope kit

Morning light

I saw on Facebook that people still dressed up for Easter Sunday, so I dressed Dorothy up on Easter Monday