Monday, December 17, 2012

Work

Drawing Tinker Bell and her other fairy friends.
Trying to draw Ariel, but, "She's the hardest!" Flounder isn't too hard though.
Teaching how to braid, the fishtail and the 4-strand so far.
Practicing the braids on Barbie's and my hair.
Cooking the basics: soup, fish sticks, rice, noodles, peas, corn, and the favorite: SPAGHETTI!!!
Baking: chocolate chip cookies (so far).
Helping with and checking over homework (we can add to 10 now!!).
Reading in German.
Reading in English.
Watching children's TV programming in German (and understanding most of it!).
Playing in the snow followed by some hot chocolate and, "Woah! There's a marshmallow floating on top! Why?" "Why not!?!?" "Can we have more marshmallows?" "Okay, but only one."
Piano lessons at Music School and being known to a cute little boy as "the English lady" while his mom has he and his sister practice their English with me. They are sweet :)
Being a knitting teacher and trying to make sure 23 stitches stays at 23, but when it gets up to about 35 not making a big deal out of it.
Making paper snowflakes.
Making collages from magazines.
Listening to German read aloud to me and correcting pronunciation mistakes.
Dressing up as witches, but not just any witches- REAL witches from Rold Dahl's The Witches, which I am reading to them.
Bath time: minimal splashing, practicing holding your breath, "experiments" and other cool stuff.
Telling stories -- made up on my own or abridged versions of movies (Thank you, Liz, for this idea!).
Practicing piano -- me having to learn a bit of piano myself so that I can be of any significant help, which is pretty cool.
Correcting their mistakes in English.
They correct my mistakes in German.
Playing train with my many used OBB tickets.
Marbles and magnets.
Thinking up our very own monsters to then draw prototypes of and to then later (we haven't done it yet) make real-life puppets of.
Rhyming (in English and German).
Legos.
Playing restaurant- best soup and ice cream cone I ever had!
Serenading each other, therefore teaching them what a serenade is.
Playing Tooth Fairy.
Singing silly songs.
Singing not as silly songs.
Reading about dinosaurs.
Friday is clean up day. "Oh noo!!! Why is it Friday?!" "Well, because yesterday was Thursday and tomorrow is Saturday, that's why." "Huh?" Haha.

Laughing, smiling, hugging.
Diverting attention to avoid arguments, cheering up, holding hands whilst walking.
Paying attention, thinking of new ideas, being creative.
Letting little girls be little girls.

Learning.



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