Ben's 1st Grade School Picture

Ben & his friend Georgy decided that it would be funny to make faces during the photo shoot. I thought that it was hilarious. Charlotte was horrified. Click on the image to for a bigger image to see their faces better.

I am a Builder

Nathan has been singing the Primary song "I Am A Builder" a lot lately. He usually only gets the first few verses. Oh yeah, we just got a new camera since we lost the last one and it also does short video recording.

Movie Night and Nathan's Show & Tell

Last Friday evening Acacia Elementary had a movie night out on their playground with a blow up movie screen. The movie was Bedtime Stories which was better then I expected. Ben and I had fun eatting pizza and treats while watching.

Nathan went to one of Charlotte's Storytimes this week and checked out a furry dog puppet. He loves the thing, I wonder what will happen in a month when he has to return it. Friday was his Show and Tell for Pre-K, this is afterwards.

Cookie Caterpiller

I found a recipe in a halloween cookbook from Target for a Cookie Caterpiller. It didn't look as good as the picture in the book, but they had fun making it, so thats what's important.

This is what it was supposed to look like.

Nathan's Teachers Note

Nathan recieved this note from his teacher praising him on his cutting skills.


On another note I started volunteering in Ben's class again this year to teach cartooning.

Ben's second Spelling Test

Ben's first test

Ben had his first Spelling test, or any test ever. He got a 100%!

Nathan's First Day of Pre-K

Nathan started Pre-K last Wednesday. His teachers are Mrs Cotty and Ms Laurie who Ben had also had when he was in Pre-K. Nathan loves his teachers and his class and is really trying to do well in his class.

Nathan's Bubble Battle

Ben was at school and Charlotte had to run an errand so Nathan amused himself by killing bubbles.

Nathan Fighting Bubbles

Back To School Fun at Chuck E Cheese

Because Ben and Nathan are going back to school we went to Chuck E. Cheese and bowling as a last fun outting of the summer. I kept trying to take a picture of Ben and Nathan on the Merry-Go-Round, but kept missing Nathan and the pole kept getting in front of Ben's face.

Back to School Bowling

We also went bowling. It was funny watching the boys bowl, I kept on having to tell Ben to not raise the ball above his head and felt sorry for one of the workers since he had to retreive the ball from the middle of the lane about 3 or 4 times since Nathan didn't throw it hard enough. Nathan got a 61, Ben 67 and I got a 146 which I beieve is my best score yet.

Bowling

Ben's First Day Of the First Grade

Thursday was Ben's first day of the first grade. He was very excited to go back to Acacia to learn new things and meet his teacher and old and new friends. His new teacher is Mrs Birg and from what friends have told us she's and awsome teacher. Nathan has been wearing his backpack everywhere we go since Ben started school, even to church.

Train Museum

This is always our fallback outting when we want to go to a museum since its free, closer then other museums and the boys love it.

Lego Camp: Day 1 Racer Cars

Ben took a week long Lego camp this week. They started out with instruction of basic engineering principles aplied to Legos and then they worked on one or two projects with the instructors walking around giving help. Then they tested their projects out. For the first day they built race cars and raced them Pinewood Dirby style.

They also built a city with their own houe or building.

All of the Legos were devided into their own boxes and compartments and at the end of each day they had to take apart their creations and put away all the bricks into their proper places.

Since Nathan was to young for this class, we worked on a few sets at home and had our own Lego Camp.

Lego Camp: Day 2 Motorized Cars

They started using motors for their cars today for the first time and every project afterwards involved motors.

There was a special box just with Figures. They could pick a different one each day to pilot whatever they made.

During the second half of the class they built a bridge that was strong enough to literally walk across.