Seeds and TMcAFS Money

Lucy, Nicco, and I starting seeds. If all goes well with these wee plants, we'll be selling them at the craft fair this April!

 

 

Jake holding his envelope of "money." It was decided that play money they came upon would be turned into Teddy McArdle money. Someone had the brilliant idea to make brownies. It was sweet seeing the kids standing in line eagerly prepared to pay for their brownies. 

Jake with his envelope of money:

 

Elizabeth serving:

 

A Feast!

We Albrights were honored to host school at our house today. Nicholas, upon arrival, immediately requested our book of dinosaurs and sat engrossed for quite awhile. There was general enjoyment of each other's company, book reading, and bike riding to our local park with a cozy feast to top it all off. Liliana introduced us to a traditional Colombian breakfast: hot chocolate mixed with a molinillo, pericos (scrambled eggs with onion and tomato), and arepas (thick corn tortilla which, in this case, became the scrumptious slate for pizza).

Nicholas posing for the camera:

Liliana and Lucy checking on the pizzas:

A sure hand with the molinillo:

Feasting:

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A Feast

Back to school!

This is our first week back to school and we're having lots of fun. Today we played school (including reading All of a Kind Family, a spelling lesson, a discussion of the gregorian calendar and the concept of centuries, and some drawing and math), had morning circle, played make believe, took a walk to get lunch and to spend time at the tank park (where we discussed the origins of obscenities, and speculated about why people might write bad words on a public gazebo), had Spanish class, did flips, and now we're all working together on the blog.

We're all happy to be back at school!

-- Ada, Lucy, Sarah, Primitiva & Elizabeth