1. Mispronunciations:
Patrick is pronouncing volcano as "vol-CANE-hoe". I guess at least it isn't "Vulcan-hoe", which would be something else entirely, eh?
Calla has erplane (airplane), wanana (banana), and gircle (circle) on her list.
2. End of the school year! Patrick is off for a few days until he starts a summer session on Wednesday.
3. Speaking of the end of the school year, an observation on the difference between early elementary and secondary teachers:
Me, at the end of a school year - go out to the car and blast the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah on the car stereo (sadly, the cassette player isn't working any more, so I'll need to find some other way to do this in the future).
Patrick's teacher, today on the last day - was fighting tears.
(But that was really sweet to see. She was so good with the kiddos - fantastic catch for the school district, I think.)
4. Drove straight from Patrick's class's end-of-year award ceremony to where my in-laws were having lunch on a car tour, to drop Patrick off with them. He'll have a great time on the tour (as always!). Meanwhile, Calla was off with the babysitter at a local homeschool co-op's day out. She apparently had a great time with them. I really didn't want to haul Calla with us, for her to find out Patrick was staying and she wasn't, as my MIL can't keep a good eye on both of them right now. In another year or two, they'll be more of an age where they can both go without a problem.
5. I'm wondering how Patrick will take to his teacher next year (who will be the one at the summer session as well). The summer session will give him the chance to get acquainted, to practice classroom-type skills a bit more, etc., and I'm hoping it'll be easier to transition in August, since we'll be able to tell him he'll have that same teacher - rather than his being done right now, and perhaps thinking he'll be having his teacher from this year when he goes back.
6. I really need to order the book I'm going to be using for the co-op that I'll be teaching at next year. I've seen it before - heck, I've taught from it for a few years out at the private school I worked at - but I don't have my own copy, and I'll need it for this. I should probably get it sooner rather than later so I'll have more opportunity to get some better planning done.
7. The hubby has been watching recorded episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation on his comp. They recently finished the series, and so are back to the beginning. He's watching "Code of Honor" right now. When I saw it come on, I said "Oh no, THAT episode" and he remarked that you could say that about all (or nearly all) of the first season episodes, and some of the second. Heh. He did say that, in returning to the beginning, he noticed that some of what they do in the episodes - such as the dramatic music before commercial breaks, etc. - is a lot like what they did in the original series - that it's much more obvious to him, after just having watched episodes of the final season (as well as the first season of DS9 on DVD from Netflix), what had changed over the years as they adapted.
Other than just that the episodes got a bit better. :D
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