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20 Jan 2010 High Bar

Jan 20, 2010

Miss Judy helps Sam get into the “basket position” on the high bar.

On this sunny winter day, warm for this part of Pennsylvania, we went to Linvilla Farm for their 50% off vegetable sale and the wooden playground they have behind the store. But we stayed for the fowl. There’s something so peaceful and calming about feeding chickens individual kernels of corn.

17 Jan 2010 Finger Puppets

Jan 17, 2010

Monty, Bertie, and Gil. Monty’s ears didn’t take kindly to glue so he got stapled.

16 Jan 2010 Pizzas

Jan 17, 2010

Homemade pizza tonight. Sam shaped her own mini pizzas and bread sticks, which she called “bread crusts.”

14 Jan 2010 Make a Little Birdhouse in Your Soul

Jan 14, 2010

Or several. Birdhouses courtesy of Tyler Arboretum. I hadn’t been to the Arboretum since I was a kid. I took Sam there today for a “Tiny Trackers” class on birds. We saw Chickadees, Robins, and White-throated Sparrows who say “Canada Canada Canada.” Sam loves that. “They say where they’re from!” We didn’t come across …

13 Jan 2010 Leap

Jan 13, 2010

12 Jan 2010 Lowercase Letters with Dorbie

Jan 12, 2010

“Dancer Dorbie” gets a lesson in the lowercase letters.

11 Jan 2010 Dancing with Scarves

Jan 11, 2010

Sally’s Music Circle at Middletown Free Library

9 Jan 2010 Winnie the Pooh

Jan 9, 2010

We saw Winnie the Pooh’s Birthday Tail at the Hedgerow Theater in Media this morning. The story seemed to be a mash-up of “In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One” and “In Which Eeyore has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents.” When I asked Sam if she liked it, she replied, “Yes, but it should have been longer.”

Carte postale

Jan 7, 2010

Sam and I are both missing our French class friends. So we made a little video carte postale (post card) pour nos amis. These are some of the songs we’d been doing in class, and you’ll see that I couldn’t resist using the iMovie editor to add a little lesson. Bonne annÃ©e, les enfants!