D.A.V.I.D. G.R.A.N.T. L.Y.O.N. pt3

L.ion

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O.utstanding

N.ot non-mischef-like

Thats all!

Dave Day

A few days ago mom said that because dad's birthday was the same as Rachel's dad would draw a date to celebrate as ''Dave Day'' [today].

Will you be mine?

I let Grant and Nina chose a design (from familyfun.com) and make all their valentines for their classes this year. They were very cute, but certainly more expensive and time consuming than the normal class valentines that you can buy at the grocery store. Will we do this next year? Maybe not.
Get it? "BEE"Mine?
A robot invasion on our kitchen table!
The robots were pretty fun to make because we assembled them factory style. I cut them out and attached the arms, Grant wrote on the back, Nina added the feet, and Rachel put on the eyes. Of course all the factory employees demanded breaks every few minutes to eat the spare parts.

A Cute Meg

Isn't she lovely?

Dino-Diorama

The second graders have been studying Dinosaurs for the last few weeks and Grant got the assignment to create a dinosaur diorama. The assignment specifically stated that the project was supposed to be child generated. . . but that turned out to be much more difficult for me than I expected. How much help is too much? How much is too little? Do I provide all the materials and then say get to it? Do I sit next to him and do it with him? Do I make

my own diorama and then tell him to make one exactly like mine? The main problem was that this assignment seemed like a lot of fun to me, but Grant had zero interest in it. Grant is a creative little tyke, but not very detail oriented- he uses more of the slip-slap-slop method to his art projects- and that is when he is interested in them. My fingers were just ITCHING to make my own adjustments to his project. I couldn't help but suggesting things like don't you think it would be great to add some shells? how about painting clouds in the sky? or wouldn't it be neat to have bubbles coming out of his mouth. . . . etc. etc. It was driving me crazy and I finally had to pass on the diorama parent facilitator job to Dave. In the end I think they did a great job- even without my help.

This is Grant's Plesiosaur- who he named Pleo. He wrote in his report "I think plesiosaurs are cool because The Loch Ness Monster could be a plesiosaur. What do you think?"

Grant is a Born Tycoon

I just finished a round of monopoly with Grant (does anyone ever finish a game of monopoly?) and we bagged up our stuff to continue a different day. Grant is a creative player. In the forty minutes we played

• he tried to sell me a ride to any square between his railroads for $5
• he tried to build a hotel on the free parking to make it 'Cost Parking'
• he tried to pay the bank in advance for a property he wanted
• and failing that, he tried to give me the money so that if I landed on it I would be contractually obligated to hand it over

I'm worried that this means he'll grow up to work for a health insurance firm. Hopefully he's just creative.

D.A.V.I.D. G.R.A.NT. L.Y.O.N. pt2

G.reat

R.unning amazing

A.mazing

N.ever non-michif making

T.oo perfect