Daniel is doing a meteorological report for a school project and needs to check the weather at the same time each morning, write a sentence about it, and draw a picture to depict the daily activity and changes.
It reads like this:
1.Today feels hot already.
2.Today there are no clouds and the sky is blue.
3.Today there is no wind and no clouds.
4.Today it is hot..........
We have to do 20 days of this- I am sure the teacher will die of boredom reading them all.
Today was actually 91F/ 32C !!
The weather channel comments that it is unseasonably hot.
My comment is that I am bored of the weather project, and bored of the incessant heat!!
C'mon, this is supposed to be Autumn now, surely.......
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Thursday, November 02, 2006
More costumes
Daniel wanted to be a policeman, and went onto the streets complete with whistle, walkie talkie, notepad and gun, and proceeded to direct traffic, and children alike...
And Emily made quite a pretty pirate
until the make-up was applied!!
And Emily made quite a pretty pirate
until the make-up was applied!!
Halloween
As I am on a roll with photos of Tara.......here is another of her as an old lady!
Nigel got up to his face painting tricks again, and the kids went trick or treating last night....
Halloween here is sooooo different to in the UK. It is more like a carnival. The atmosphere is amazing as everyone brings deckchairs out onto their driveways, groups of neighbours congregate around braziers drinking wine, and eating together. The kids all dress up- (but very few masks or macabre outfits), and head off round the neighbourhood with some of the adults, leaving others behind to hand out candy and toys to the hoardes of children passing by. A lot of the houses are decorated on the outside, which adds to the fun- orange and black fairy lights, pumpkins, cobwebs, bats etc, and we even found some grottos to peer into (strobe lights and skeletons!). Some of our neighbours covered a trailer with hay bales, fairy lights, and balloons, and the whole cul de sac piled on board and rode round the estate throwing candy at the strolling kids!
We saw butterflies, Spiderman, princesses, fish, pirates, Minnie Mouse, and even Spongebob!! It was great fun for our children, and they loved the whole thing.
Emily's school trip last week was to a pumpkin patch, where she got to choose one to bring home and carve- it had pride of place outside last night, with a huge toothy grin! I like the idea here of Halloween being like a harvest festival, full of rejoicing and laughter (not an egg or bag of flour in sight!), and leading into Thanksgiving at the end of the month.
It is perplexing, having come here with 'well-founded' negative views of Halloween, and from a church which provided an alternative to the macabre darkness, to see such incredible community building in one evening, and confusing for us all to see an inflatable Winnie the Pooh vampire outside the church coffee shop!!
Nigel got up to his face painting tricks again, and the kids went trick or treating last night....
Halloween here is sooooo different to in the UK. It is more like a carnival. The atmosphere is amazing as everyone brings deckchairs out onto their driveways, groups of neighbours congregate around braziers drinking wine, and eating together. The kids all dress up- (but very few masks or macabre outfits), and head off round the neighbourhood with some of the adults, leaving others behind to hand out candy and toys to the hoardes of children passing by. A lot of the houses are decorated on the outside, which adds to the fun- orange and black fairy lights, pumpkins, cobwebs, bats etc, and we even found some grottos to peer into (strobe lights and skeletons!). Some of our neighbours covered a trailer with hay bales, fairy lights, and balloons, and the whole cul de sac piled on board and rode round the estate throwing candy at the strolling kids!
We saw butterflies, Spiderman, princesses, fish, pirates, Minnie Mouse, and even Spongebob!! It was great fun for our children, and they loved the whole thing.
Emily's school trip last week was to a pumpkin patch, where she got to choose one to bring home and carve- it had pride of place outside last night, with a huge toothy grin! I like the idea here of Halloween being like a harvest festival, full of rejoicing and laughter (not an egg or bag of flour in sight!), and leading into Thanksgiving at the end of the month.
It is perplexing, having come here with 'well-founded' negative views of Halloween, and from a church which provided an alternative to the macabre darkness, to see such incredible community building in one evening, and confusing for us all to see an inflatable Winnie the Pooh vampire outside the church coffee shop!!
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