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| Dorah is exhausted in the heat |
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| Our first poem, an ode to summer! |
Now, retired teachers of Ontario (RTO) meet on Tuesday morning, the first day of school, for breakfast and to chew over old times. I refrain! Not so good in groups these days...
We had a lovely lunch with the kids yesterday.
Josephine felt that we had the wrong colour sign on the end of the driveway. I guess her father should explain 'ridings' to her, and strategic voting!
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| Our local candidate |
Caitlin and I went down for a docktail photo-op, Isabelle to see the new dock. Isabelle, only age 5, took our photo!
We saw some wiggly bullfrog caterpillars. I demonstrated their wiggly tails shaking my booty. Izzy showed us how it was done!
After lunch the girls practiced bike riding. Jos went to a workshop for those worried about learning this skill. Rather than training wheels, they remove the pedals and practice this way. It was a fun time, riding down our hill!
Isabelle found a caterpillar. The good little scientist that she is, we had to convince her that the caterpiggly was safer in my aquarium, rather than in nature. I just figured out: the name of her Woolybear is an Isabella Tiger Moth!
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Isabella Tiger Moth
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10 comments:
Hello sounds like a fun day. Your granddaughters are having fun on their bikes adn with the caterpillar. Cute kitty!
Have a happy Tuesday!
How clever to remove the pedals for learning to balance a bicycle!
The first day of school is sooo exciting!!
Learning to ride, that is what the Grandies are for, to hold the seat, be there if a fall happens, lots of TLC and heaps of praise. You have it all. Your wee girls have you both, what a blessing.
One last day before school... I still can't see Labour Day as a day off!
Hari OM
What a delightful day, well spent! YAM xx
Looks like fun times to me!
You learn so many things when you're around kids. You have to look through a kids eyes. I think you have the right color at the end of your driveway.
I remember the fun days of getting my room ready for the new students, but why do I still have dreams about it every end of August. Now they seem more like nightmares, losing kids, sending kids home too early, stuff like that. - Margy
P.S. I still have nightmares about teaching, losing my day book, can't regain classroom control, lost my way in the school... :-Q
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