Ari does “stations” at school, which is how academic learning is handled for junior infants. My question for him today was: What was an interesting thing you learned today during stations?
Not all shapes can roll.
Ari, 5
Pretty good takeaway tbh.
Ari and I finished The Hobbit today! We’ve been reading parts of it nearly every night for a few months and he’s really been loving it. I asked him today: Which part of The Hobbit do you wish you had been there for in real life? Spoilers (!) for The Hobbit up ahead.
The bit where Bilbo Baggins has to buy all his furniture back, I would love to be there and see him have to buy it all off the people who took it.
Ari, 5
Kid knows a good gag when he sees one.
Ari and I regularly bundle up for what we call “a lap and nap”, whereby we do a lap of our estate and Ada gets in her last nap of the day.
Today we decided to turn it into a photowalk, as it was such a crisp and gorgeous winter afternoon.
Things we photographed: the stark outline of trees against the sky, cool shadows on the wall, some colourful graffiti, frosted moss and at least one dog.
Today was Ari’s first day back after the Christmas break. I asked him “What do you want most to remember about your first day back at school today?”.
I used to have a teacher called Neela but I don’t anymore.
Ari, 5
I also asked him if he was sad about it but he said no, that he and the other kids had worked together on drawing pictures for her on a big piece of paper before the break to say goodbye.
I didn’t even know she was finishing up!
That the smoke from the chimneys on the houses mixed with the fog and made it even thicker so you couldn’t drive through it.
Ari, 5
This was a good one! It was a very foggy day, but manageable. We were trying to drive down to a local playground and had to take an alternate route because the chimney smoke from a house near a roundabout on the way was creating a blanket of fog (smog?) so thick that we couldn’t see more than a metre in front of us, so we slowly looped around the roundabout and found a less terrifying route.
