Celebrating Indian Day

Three little indians and their "hut":

Roasting and eating the "fish" they "caught":


A working indian (and her smeared paint):

Indian in a tree:

Words of Wisdom, Conclusions, Aspirations, Etc.

Naturally, these derived from Alina's ever-active, fertile mind.

While brushing her hair one day: "I think that in most of the countries, when the kids grow up, they get taller than their moms because they keep growing and growing, and their moms keep getting shorter and shorter."

While having snack one day: "Oh, I wish I knew where the ants lived because then I could carry their food to their house for them!"

"I'm a regular bookworm because I like to read!"

"When I grow up, I'm going to be a writer like Jo (from Little Women)."

A "piece of encouragement" (as she called it) that she wrote to me: "Bobi, I love you and I want you to know that I love Laura, but it's hard to love her when she bothers me. Please help me. With lots of love, Alina." (she even signed her name in cursive 'cause it's special)

She wrote her second poem a couple of weeks ago and was all proud of herself:
When I feel sad,
I'll ask God to make me glad;
For me to see
How fun life can be!

And she wrote a short story some days ago and proclaimed it to be her first story ever (guess she doesn't think that writing stories during school counts, heh). I can't find the notebook that she wrote it in, but she was quite proud of the feat (she even remembered to put a title) and according to her, she now has to go on to the next step to becoming a writer which is to write a song (since she already wrote a poem and a story). 

She has quite forgotten her dream of becoming an artist and all she talks about now is how she wants to be a famous writer and wants "everyone all over the world to read my poems and things I write because it will make them so happy".

Well, that's certainly better to hear then her moping about how she doesn't have any talents and how she doesn't know how to do anything.

My Students

Just posting a ton of photos from the past three weeks of my new student and of course, my princesses.

Helping make banana pie for snack:



Alina and Pietro painting eggs:

Their works of art:

Practical-life activity:

Monkeying around:

Alina's photography (of my massive legs):

Being silly:






Fun at the playground:



The little branches they're holding are the "fish" they were cooking over the "fire":


Laura stole somebody's fish:

Different tree barks we collected:

Motor-coordination activity:

A couple of days before Easter there was a big storm and it knocked down this large tree on the other side of our street. Thankfully, it didn't fall on our wall.



Pre-writing exercises:

Alina having ballet lessons:



Laura doing her motor-coordination activites:



She makes curvy scribbles now:

Matching activity:

Pietro and Alina helping make vanilla blobs:

Laura getting a ride on Alina's legs:



The yellow mark above her is 1.50m ... she's soooo tall :)

Laura packing herself for our move ... or maybe she was just trying to find a cozy place to "read" her book:




Art project:



"Shopping":

Helping make crepes:

Eating the crepes: