Monday, April 2, 2007

What, no foosball table?


Today is the first day of Spring break, if you don't count this weekend.

I have two ten year olds here who went to bed too late and got up too early. The second one is here until 5:15 tonight. It is 8 a.m. and they already cannot decide what to do.

It amazes me how my son is perfectly capable of filling up his days with very little thought. He always has a ton of projects and ideas going on, but as soon as a school mate comes over- the "we're bored!" remarks start in. They seem incapable of figuring out what to do on their own- aside from endless hours of play station- which thankfully, even gets old to them.

The unspoken implication- I should buy more, better, cooler stuff for them to do.

I think we will be taking an old fashioned trip to the park today. Maye peanut butter sandwiches for a picnic. Sounds fun, no?

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Bookshelf

Shannon's currently-reading book montage

The Complete Poems
Collected Poems
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011
Anti-Bias Education for young children and ourselves
I Laugh So I Won't cry: kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives
How to Be Compassionate: a Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
Children
The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections
The Secret Garden


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Shannon's read-in-2012 book montage

Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children
Safari Animals
Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's theory (early childhood education series
Total Learning: Developmental Curriculum for the Young Child
Clinical Supervision and Teacher Development


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