Daily Archives: October 31, 2015

Attention to detail

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Lex regularly amazes me with his attention to detail.  Tonight he asked me why comics always write in uppercase.  Then he commented that in the Calvin and Hobbes books Moe always speaks in lowercase and bold.  Everyone else speaks in uppercase. Why is that?! Then he reminded me of a conversation we had years ago about why comics never use periods. They use question marks and exclamation points, but rarely use periods.   And he wondered what font Randal Monroe uses in xkcd comics.  His attention to detail astounds me. 

Happy Halloween!

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Halloween 2015.  It was a bit different this year.  The kids both chose character costumes that required money, but little creativity.  I was busy with work and did minimal decorating or planning. 

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Evie and Steve

We trick-or-treated with two of Eve’s friends and their mothers and siblings.  I went out with the kids, thinking I could socialize with the moms, while Alan stayed home with one of the dads to hand out candy.  Turns out Eve and her friends were a lot faster than Lex, so they were mostly way ahead while Lex and his big cardboard head and I lagged behind.  Lex and I ended coming home before the rest of the crowd, which was fine.  We got to socialize with Alan and the other dad a bit.  Then one of Eve’s friends and her mom and sister came back to our house and we all hung out, laughing about the evening.  That might have been my favorite part of the night.  :-)

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An excited Halloween crowd!

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Trick-or-treating

A good night was had by all.  Now to manage the massive amount of candy they acquired!  We went to far more houses than ever before!

Math

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While doing is multiplication homework the other day Lex’s mind wandered to the concept of infinity. The idea that three times infinity is a smaller number than four times infinity. I guess he and Alan had been talking about it recently.

After talking about infinity a bit and pondering the size of infinity he said, “I like to think about mind-bending math. The stuff you literally can’t wrap your brain around. It kind of makes your brain hurt. I love that!”

The whole situation reminded me of a comment his teacher had made that he takes too long to do his math work in school. I suspect his mind is wandering to more interesting stuff and he looses track of the time. I certainly see it often at home!

Halloween in preschool

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Throw flies (marshmallows) onto the spider web (tape). The kids loved it!

Throw flies (marshmallows) onto the spider web (tape). The kids loved it!

I survived my first Halloween as a preschool teacher! It was much less chaotic than I was expecting. The other two classrooms really outdid me in decorations and I felt a little lame in the morning when I saw that, but by the end of the day I thought my room was just perfect. We had five activities that the kids could rotate through as they desired. Everyone had fun and there were no major meltdowns or out of control scenes. Just kids having fun. I was quite pleased, and happy when the day was over!!

Make-a-monster

Make-a-monster

Pumpkin bowling. It started with the "pins" like this, but the kids quickly came up with many other inventive pin configurations.

Pumpkin bowling. It started with the “pins” like this, but the kids quickly came up with many other inventive pin configurations.