Ms. Cail's Pre-K Graduation Video

Dorothy's teacher posted a year-end slideshow on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/stjamescatholicschool/videos/586915358599156

Posting our summer schedule

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Zoom ballet recital

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy took out a hand-me-down 100-piece puzzle, and I advised that we should count the pieces before we took time to make the puzzle.  She disappeared for a bit, and came back to tell me, "I counted the pieces and it turns out it's a 104-piece puzzle!"

Dorothy likes to listen to a podcast for children called But Why.  Its episodes answer questions like "Why do baby teeth fall out?" and "Where does the sky end?"  While playing with the water hose today, Dorothy said, "We should ask But Why why water slips through your hands."  I tried to answer her question, and she responded, "Okay, but But Why will give us more facts."

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."

Reply All: Brian vs. Brian

Check out Brian's 15 minutes of fame here:

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all

(You can also search for the podcast "Reply All", episode "Brian vs. Brian", on any podcasting app.)

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