Month: October 2010

The Kindergartners at Aveson have time each day for Writer’s Workshop and the kids love it. Even Ezra, who barely wrote his name until this summer, is very proud of his authorship. The school encourages writing without regard to spelling — and asks that parents don’t correct the kids’ spelling either. Correct spelling will come; the point now is to get them writing. And it works. Ezra used to be very self-conscious of his writing (both spelling and how his letters look) but that is no longer the case.

We had our first goal-setting conference with his teacher this week and we got to bring home his first book. Here it is. My favorite is “KONPOST” with the picture of our compost bin. The “TNT” is pretty good, too. He’s definitely in a Road Runner and Coyote phase, so there’s lots of dynamite exploding. The day he wrote “dynamite exploding” (however creatively) he was so excited. He rarely gives me any details of his school day (without a lot of prodding) but that day he couldn’t wait to tell me.

Ezra and Bruce (along with Bob, Vanessa and Thomas) took a backpacking trip over the weekend. It’s not Ezra’s first (we took one before Finn was born) but it’s the first he’ll remember. They drove to Palm Springs and took the tram up to Mount San Jacinto State Park and Wilderness. They hiked a little over two miles before they set up camp.

Ezra had been really sick the day before and was pretty tired on the hike, but Bruce says he was quite a trooper. They’d attempted to take a stroller (anticipating that it would be helpful to carry either extra stuff or Ezra if he got tired) but found out there are no wheels allowed in the wilderness and had to leave it at the tram station.

After a brief rest once reaching camp, Ezra was back to almost normal speed and was climbing rocks and playing with Thomas.

They had dinner and got ready to hit the hay.

All in all, I think it was a good introduction to backpacking. Ezra said it was “too much walking” but he also said he had a good time. I definitely breathed a sigh of relief when they arrived home safely.

Right here on the couch.

After having a bout of nausea in the middle of the night and waking up this morning with no energy and a slight fever, Ezra had his first sick day home from Kindergarten. Good thing, as the nausea returned at about 11:00. He has literally spent all but about 15 minutes of the day on the couch and took a good two-hour nap. Poor little guy; I hope he’s better tomorrow.

At least Batman’s here to help.

Sometimes these Moision boys can be so sweet. This week at school, Ezra made a painting that was all orange. When he was showing it to us this morning, he said he knew that orange was Finn’s favorite color and he wanted to give the painting to Finn. So, he cut off the part of the painting where he had written Ezra and wrote Finn instead. We hung it up on the wall by Finn’s bed. Finn was thrilled.