Sunday, October 19, 2008

On the Contrary!

Have I ever mentioned that I love the charter school my 1st One and Wild Child attend. They are learning a ton. The best part of that is that they are excited about what they are learning. I don't know about you, but when I was is school they didn't teach us about "greeting" new people and proper etiquette for such situations in the 1st and 2nd grade. My 1st One came home and told me all about it. She even said, "You should say, 'Hello, my name is ........, it's a pleasure to meet you.' Mom, did you know that is a greeting?"

The kids have been doing a bunch of field work lately, aka: field trips, that have all been centered on or around trees and the products they provide us. They talk about how they grow, why leaves change color, what grows on trees, how we get paper form them and what might live in and around them, to name just a few. A few weeks ago the the 1st One was able to tour and Violin Making school. Can you believe how cool? I know you are all thinking......."OK....we get it. You like the school.......is there a point here?" No point......just a Wild Child story.

So this past week when the 1st One was at school and before it was time to take the Wild Child to afternoon Kindergarten, the Wild Child had the Little Jamaican and My Son sitting on the couch. She was literally making them stay there, because she had made a "Contrary" and they were doing field work, learning about some of the animals in her "Contrary." She had taken all the throw pillows off the couch and had made "cages" for some of her "animals" (aka: stuffed animals) and was pulling them out one at a time and talking about them to her brother and sister like she was a tour guide. Of course, this is all very amusing to me, especially since it took me forever to figure out what a "Contrary" was.

This is what I over heard as she was giving the tour of her conservatory. "This here is a weasel-rat. They live here in the forest. Can anyone tell me what a weasel-rat eats?" as she is holding up her stuffed animal that is actually a weasel she's named Womp. "Do they eat leaves? No. Do they eat bugs? No. Do they little kids? No. How about noses?" She lets out a little snort/laugh. "They eat HAIR! THEY EVEN EAT THEIR OWN HAIR!" Wow.........now that is a very self sufficient weasel-rat.

12 comments:

dlyn said...

Great post Karen - nothing like a guided tour! :)

Flea said...

A Womp rat, huh? Does she practice shooting them from her pod racer on Tattoine? :)

Karen said...

Is that a form of cannibalism? haha

Jen said...

to funny. I only hope that we can love our school as much

Anonymous said...

WOW I want to go to that school. That's great that your kids are getting such a well rounded education.

Nancy said...

that made me laugh out loud.

Danyele Easterhaus said...

i love it! what a smart kiddo! and charter schools rock...my #2's birthmom was not doing well at all in public school...started in charter school for the last 4 years...graduating with honors now! yea charter schools!

Danyele Easterhaus said...

i love it! what a smart kiddo! and charter schools rock...my #2's birthmom was not doing well at all in public school...started in charter school for the last 4 years...graduating with honors now! yea charter schools!

Rhea said...

Aaww, what a cutie! I love it when kids get so creative like that. Sounds like a good school they attend, too.

Nicole said...

Have I mentioned that I've called and emailed the local charter school that is supposed to be a sister school to the one your kids attend and they won't return my calls or my emails? Very VERY frustrating!!!

Anonymous said...

Nicole, if you haven't seen it, here's the website for enrollment

http://entheosacademy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=62

Of course it states that open enrollment is closed. You should probably just keep checking the link until it opens up.

--The Rocket Scientist

orangemily said...

Wow, smart kids and cute to boot!
I'm a fan of good Charter Schools.