PE Night for the Kindergartners

Tuesday, 11 April 2006

I really like our Physical Education teacher at the Elementary School. He challenges the kids, encourages them to be physically active, and makes physical education fun. For each of the grade levels he has a family night at the Gym where all the children in that grade level can bring their family and show them what they've been doing and learning in class.

The Kindergartners are the last class to go - that way they have all year to learn the rules and become more familiar with the different stations set up around the gym. They had jump rope, ball and glove tosses, monkey bars, balance beam, hula-hoops, rock wall, rope climb and swing, tumbling, and more.

The weather was beautiful so the girls road their bikes while GR and I walked pushing Sam in the stroller. We had a great time for the short hour we were there. And the kids got a chance to do most of the different stations. Here are some pictures of our night.

Let's go fly a kite

Sunday, 9 April 2006

Grandpa Bob's birthday was last month and for his birthday we got him a kite. We got a big kite for Grandpa, three smaller kites for the kids. Spiderman for Sam, Strawberry Shortcake for Rebecca, Barbie for Emily.

When we got home from church, I started working dinner (homemade bread and lasagna). The weather was beautiful - lots of warm sunshine with temperatures in the low 70s - and I really wanted to spend some time outside with the kids. Our neighborhood isn't really conducive to this, once my three go out, all the neighborhood children come out ... a great thing M-S, but on Sunday, that's our family day - no neighborhood friends. Bob and Diane’s is a great place to "escape to" because we can spend time with the children outside, and spend time together as a family without distraction.

So we called to see if we could go to Bob and Diane's and fly kites in the big field behind their house, and took dinner with us. We had a really, really good time. The kids are learning what it takes to keep a kite high in the air. We could have used a more consistent breeze, and we needed all four adults outside to help keep the kites up in the air. But once GR helped them get their kites above the tree line - with all of their string extended - they stayed up without any problem.