Well the Caricature cartoon drawing and flip book making was a success! You can see their pictures and flip books here, even if you are not on facebook. I chuckled at their funny creations - wild imaginations at work!
The flip books I won't be able to do justice to, but I had lots of varied ideas, from the swimmer eaten by a shark which is then run over by a ship that sinks, to the arrow flying to and through a heart (it is almost Valentine's Day...) to Nandry's idea for a flower that goes from bud to bloom to end. One kid had a sun setting and moon rising...what a great and simple idea for a flip book! There were many great ideas! They are a fun group to work with, all the way from my precious kindergartner who is all eagerness and eager to please and fit in with the big kids, all the way to my super intelligent and quick sixth grader (the inventor of that man to shark to boat business mentioned above).
Later in the day, I went on my first jog in a while, and had some downtime (and took a nap!) and later in the evening, four of us ladies played Settlers of Catan, a fun game of strategy that I interestingly learned just barely the week before I came. Several of the people on the Baka team LOVE it, so I am getting opportunities to play, and several more of the folks here at SCA also enjoy it, so I will be playing again, I'm sure, before I go home. I like playing here, with Elsie, the school coordinator, too, because she helps me when I am still a newbie and unsure of what to do. I did pretty well tonight, and was beginning to get the hang of strategizing.
On the docket for tomorrow is our first music lesson!
The music career for tomorrow is Composers!
We will be talking about famous composers (we have Composer bingo, sooo cool) AND the kids will get a chance to do some improvisation and composing, too, once we review the letter names of the staff. Thanks to my music teacher friend, Melissa, for showing me great resources like the powerpoint story I have to help teach this concept!
And we will do some singing, and listening to some of the works of the famous composers from our game. It will be a fast paced lesson, but I think it will be a blast! And my music helper, one of the moms, Debbie, knows her music stuff, so she has been SUPER helpful already in the planning process, and I know we will make a good team.
Anyway, it is past my bedtime, but stay tuned for pictures and more about our fun two weeks ahead! (The kids REALLY get to have a blast; they get to go on field trips to a radio station, a bakery, a helipad to see the helicopter and talk to the pilot, and more, and they get to talk to a Veterinarian, Physical Therapist, a lady who was the property manager for a bunch of buildings and all the parks in Chicago (!), and other cool people!)
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