Saturday, October 23, 2010

Sentence Excitement

Christopher is writing sentences - he wrote two by himself this morning and was so proud of himself. Unfortunately, they got thrown in the trash and covered in pasta sauce, so I can't scan them in... but they are:

CHRistoPHER NEiL har EN GroDa i handen.
(Christopher Neil has a frog in his hand.)

and...

NEiL VEL ha EN jqaD
(which should have been "Neil vill ha en gepard" or "Neil wants a lepoard." but gepard got a bit confused in the sounding out process... and then the "p" got a bit turned around.)

First grade is fun!

Sunday, October 03, 2010

From Their Perspective

We were in Yosemite at the end of July, and in the lobby of our hotel was a group of people filming the "Oh, Ranger! Story Tour". They were going to 10 national parks, using macs to film peoples' impressions of what they had seen. I thought it would be fun for the kids... but legally the adults had to be in the video as well. So the whole family crowded in a little tent, in front of a MacBook Pro, and talked about our tour of the park with Ranger Ralph.

It took several weeks for them to post the video, but finally it's here.