Preschool conspiracy

I pick Honor up from school in the afternoons and often the kids will be having their snacks in the lunchroom. For awhile now, the kids have been conspiring to hide Honor when I come, and I play along. I might ask where she is? And the kids will tell me different places, and why (She went to America to see her grandma!). I sometimes pretend that I think another child is Honor and ask them to pack up their lunch box so we can go. Sometimes I get an invisible Honor and pretend to take an invisible girl home. Other times I will just who wants to go home with me since Honor isn't there. (I always get a couple of volunteers!) Eventually Honor will pop out and say "Here I am!" Thursday, I just happened to bring the camera and so when I came in and didn't see Honor at the table - "She's not here!", said the kids - I asked them, what will happen if I take a picture under the table? I clicked a photo without looking, showed the kids, and asked what they saw:

Most kids said, Honor's under the table! One kid said, Honor's in the camera! Honor popped out and said, "Can I see?" I won again!! ;-D

Day at school with Brian

Thursday was a day with Brian. His class has been studying about the local community and they have been doing some map exercises and walk-abouts around the school. I went in to chaperone another one of the neighborhood walks in the morning - I also went on one with them last week, and brought Brad along too, although he hadn't been planning on going. He had the day off though, and he enjoyed participating too. It's a good exercise that has the kids following a simple street map, and filling in symbols of what they see on the route: Villas, apartments, shops, mosques, etc. They are also tasked to notice things dealing with economy, ecology, language, culture, change, etc. My group was to focus on man-made changes, natural changes, and signs of rules in the community. I enjoyed walking around with Brian and his classmates again. Second grade is an interesting age - the kids are still 'little', but they are working towards being 'big kids'.
I went home for about 30 minutes after that walk, and had lunch. Then went back to the school to Brian's class to help with the second event for the day. They were supposed to be going to the nearby school for orphans to make beaded necklaces for their end of year fund raiser, but exams caused the trip to be canceled. Instead, we stayed at the school and made the necklaces in the classrooms. I enjoyed spending all this time with Brian.

Pizza! (aka, clean out the fridge dinner)

Honor came home from school asking for pizza yesterday, but I told her no because we planned on going to the club for swimming and dinner tonight. We won't buy dinner two nights in a row. But I did agree that we could make pizza. While she napped, I made up some pizza dough. A double batch for 2 types of pizza... and because we like enough pizza for leftovers. I dug into the veggie crisper to see what needed to be used up. LOTS of tomatoes. Into the blender with you! Tomatoes, a little onion, oregano, and garlic. Looked like pizza sauce to me after a moment or two on 'puree'.

Honor woke up about the time I was pre-baking the crusts so they wouldn't be soggy. Brian wasn't interested in helping. He was tired. After he finished his homework, he plopped into a comfy chair with his Webkinz pal for awhile. Eventually he got up a bit of energy, but made it only a few feet and collapsed on the couch with a book. So, it was just Honor and me to fix the pizzas.

One pizza started with leftover BBQ ribs and sauce. Not much meat, but the sauce was nice, with yellow peppers, onion, and mushroom. Honor added some bits of pineapple, leftover chicken, and olives as well. The other pizza had the tomato sauce, the chicken, pepperoni, mushrooms, olives, pineapple. Oh, and lots of cheese on both. We baked it, and pulled it out of the oven just as Brad came home from work. Tasty!