( 12:54 PM ) Jessica
Yesterday was the twins' award ceremony a school & tomorrow is the last day of 2nd grade for them. They both made the *A* honor roll, & Evan also got a math excellence certificate...
Micah COULD have gotten a math excellence certificate, but he missed handing in 2 or 3 or more of his homework assignments on time & got 50 on them for lateness...didn't matter that he got 100 on the papers. He did a fair bit of make up work over the last 2 weeks, which brought his math average up from around 78 to 91...he probably should be in the gifted & talented program & they tested him for it a year ago but sometimes he takes a little too long to answer questions & that works against him... problem is: when he "gets" something, he's basically done with it & doesn't really want to work on whatever anymore unless he needs to use that info for a practical application... a lot of his homework was a worksheet with the same type of problems/questions that were on the other side for his classwork...needless to say, we've had problems with homework with him from when they had "PAL" work (parent assisted learning) in Kindergarten & that was only 2 or 3 times a week... it's almost enough to drive me to homeschool Micah since the school is so unyielding about things he "has" to do.. in my mind, homework should be limited to projects after school or for children who NEED the extra work. Micah does not. I think I'd better get off my soapbox, LOL...
I do wonder if Evan should be tested for the gifted program: almost all his papers were 90 or above & he does almost all his homework in school... I'll try to talk to his teacher tomorrow: we'll be picking the boys up then so that we can give their teachers their gifts. I doubt that they read this blog (if you are one of the boys' teachers, please say HI! on the tag-board! ) but just to avoid ruining any surprises, I'll wait until tomorrow to say anything about the presents.
After the ceremony, we went to Dairy Queen & the kids had ice cream, I had a salad & Gary had a belt buster...then we went to a place where Gary buys his wood and it was the first time I'd been there: they have displays in their show room of things people made & a couple of the pieces were really cool: 2 of them were examples of natural dyes: a miniature Navajo loom (about the size of an index card) with a little bit of weaving on it & strands of the differen colors were stranded around the picture showing the different colors that can be made...my favorite was the red onion: it turned the yarns green, and there were 2 of them, one was around $50 and the other was larger & was over $100... they also had a belt that looked like it might have been pick-up inkle weaving...it was abou 5 or 6" wide & looked like a pebble weave. I'm about to try doing pebble weave, have been fussing trying to decide if I want to try it with silk yarn or cotton...Gary made me 2 looms: a Little Stick & mini-Sick in mesquite...I think I'll do the pebble weaving with cotton on the Little Stick & do some lettering bookmarks on my mini-Stick with the silk yarn...I've never woven with silk, so this will be a new experience & if for some reason I find it hard to do pickup with it, the checkerboard design necessary for doing pickup lettering is pretty by itself...
The back of Sanquar only has 8 rows left... haven't had a chance to work on it since Tuesday night, plus yesterday I was busy putting some plants into the garden. we still have more planting to do & since it's "late" for spring planting in Texas, we're only doing summer stuff like tomatoes, basil (I LOVVVVVVVVVE pesto & hope the boys will too), peppers, corn, etc... but may plant the rest of the tomato plants & a row of basil this afternoon after I finish warping looms for our customers. My shoulders are sore from using muscles I haven't used in a while!
I'll post pictures of Sanquar & the Alphabet band & the new Mesquite looms either this afternoon or tomorrow...I'm guessing that Sanquar may be done after another 2 or 3 evenings of knitting, maybe by the end of the weekend...it's a pity it wasn't done by the beginning of this week because it was actually cool enough to wear it! Oh well...there's next fall!
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