Music in our schools month

March is music in our schools month! Yay! I spend the month of march doing a bunch of fun school-wide activities. We have a morning news show, so last week I went on the show each morning and played "name that tune" with my recorder. The kids did really well with their guessing! This week we are having "mystery singers" on the news. I prerecorded a few teachers singing a short excerpt of a song and put them in a PowerPoint. The news show plays a new one each day. I usually do this every year, it's so funny to hear the kid's guesses. The 3rd week of march will be "performance week" and different performances will be highlighted each morning. We will end the week with an all-singing news show. I will sit in with my colleague as the newscasters and we will sing all of the news for that day. Last year, it was a huge hit. Some years I have done music trivia, put music quotes around the whole school, played student performances on the news, had an all-school dance show, and presented "informances" for parent visitors. It's a fun month!!! Make sure you celebrate music this month!

Need some new music to listen to?? Here are some songs that are currently on my playlist:
- "This time" by John legend
- the soundtrack to "The Last Five Years"
- "butterfly" by rajaton
- "Between the Lines" by Sara Bareilles
- "Smooth Criminal" by MJ

Here's a cool picture of our last overtones reunion right before we were about to sing:

My kids are cute

Picture of Owen (taken by Henry) in the kitchen. This was followed by a few pictures of the toilet - flushing, not flushing, surrounding, etc. Lovely.

Here is a picture of Henry painting the snow blue. I was so hip and put some blue food dye in some water and they sprayed the snow blue. Hello, pinterest!

Cutie Char painting snow.

Owen, working hard shoveling.

This is a picture of the kids inside a teepee at Ticonderoga Farms meditating. I thought they were hilarious. "Ommmmm"

Charlotte portrait by Owen, on the porch last weekend. After our snowfall, we had lovely spring weather on Saturday and Sunday. Ready for real spring!!!

It's been a very long while....

Every day I say, "I need to blog!" And every day, I don't. I just run out of time. Or, I spend too much time browsing Reddit snd don't generally use my time wisely. I'm going to try and be better. I had a good idea for some new blogging ideas, but then our work scanner broke and I can't upload what I wanted to. I took some new pictures of the kids but haven't looked for the camera cord to upload them. I want to come back and use my blog to help motivate me to lose those few pounds I've put back on and continue to work toward my ww goal, but people keep bringing me food and I'm so tirrreeedddddd. If I could take a day off and just sleep, you bet I would.

What is new? You know I love me some bullets:
- Boys are more than halfway through Kindergarten. They are starting to like it. Took them a while to get used to, but they have made some good friends and are learning a TON. They played soccer this fall, basketball in the winter, and are starting baseball this Saturday.


Owen's art - "Everybody likes presidents" and "A long time ago George Washington led the Revolutionary War."

Henry's art!

 

- Charlotte is doing well, too. She spends her mornings here at school with us in the preschool classroom. She is the "community peer" in the special education program. She is in a classroom of 8 boys and has a good time with her wonderful teachers. She spends her afternoons at a neighborhood mom's house with a couple babies that she loves. She is "learning" Arabic there and frequently gives us language demonstrations.

 

- Mom and Dad (thats us) are doing fine. Frequently day dreaming about moving to Bermuda, planning a non-hostile takeover of a local daycare, deciding what to get our PhD's in, and keeping the house from falling apart. We moved, too. And promptly painted the walls the brightest colors ever! (Over compensation?) We now have a 2 car garage, a big backyard, a wonderful front porch, and a comfy new couch. Plus we live just few blocks to our school. Which we still drive to every day. *sigh*

 

That's our update. Must. Do. Better. Maybe I can make a blog update part of my daily life like it used to be. Hm. We shall see. I know Mamere would enjoy it.

 

Hugs and kisses.