Mama: What kind of work did you do today, Colette?
Colette: I can’t remember.
Mama: Really? Tell me just one thing you enjoyed today.
Colette: I didn’t do anything.
Mama: Did you do bead stringing? (she always says she did bead stringing)
Colette: Oh, yeah. I did bead stringing alllll day long. Nothing else.
Mama: Are you sure you didn’t do any art work today? Or wash a table? Or learn letters? Or work with the pink tower? Or go for a rope walk?
Colette: Nope. Just bead stringing.
Mama: Did you work with anyone else or by yourself?
Colette: Just by myself. No, no – actually with Lazadae! (grinning smile and sly eyes)
Mama: Oh, with Lazadae huh? (she is completely enamored with Lazadae, as she is the oldest kid there, but I don’t know that they actually do much work together)
Colette: Yep! I love Lazadae.
Mama: What did you have for lunch?
Colette: I didn’t eat lunch. There wasn’t any today.
Mama: That’s weird.
Colette: Huh. That’s weird.
Mama: Are you sure you didn’t have pasta for lunch today, because I see some sauce on your face.
Colette: How’d that get there? That’s really weird!
Luckily, her school provides pictures and feedback about what the kids do at school or I would never know she gets up to!
- 2016.09.21 First group neighborhood walk of the year
- 2016.09.21 Learning a new group game
- 2016.09.22 Colette observes Warren at work in the background while Nikita works on the lock box and Alice uses clothespins in the foreground
- 2016.09.22 Making designs with the rubber band geo board
- 2016.09.22 Practicing the sewing circle
- 2016.09.26 Rope walk through the neighborhood
- 2016.09.26 Look for Colette in the back
- 2016.09.26 Using play dough
- 2016.09.28 Preparing to wash the table while Anaya uses the clothespin box and Marilyn explores geometric shapes
- 2016.09.28 Washing an underlay
- 2016.09.28 Lots of repetition!
- 2016.10.03 Color Rods
- 2016.10.03 Milo washing the leaves of a plant and Colette making designs with the bead board
- 2016.10.04 Painting
- 2016.10.06 Collage making
- 2016.10.11 Reading Nikita’s 4th birthday story
- 2016.10.13 Exploring with the brown stairs and the pink tower
- 2016.10.13 Getting it just right
- 2016.10.18 Counting the number rods – intro to quantity
- 2016.10.19 Colette and Marilyn digging in the sand
- 2016.10.19 Scooping sand into a bucket
- 2016.10.20 Exploring the outdoors
- 2016.10.25 Painting
- 2016.10.27 Colette and Adelaide making a paper chain
- 2016.10.27 Colette metal polishing while Anaya observes
- 2016.10.31 Halloween (Colette as a ballerina)
- 2016.10.31 Science experiments with mad scientist Jeff!
- 2016.10.31 Add a little of this
- 2016.10.31 Mix it up
- 2016.10.31 Now you get a turn
- 2016.10.31 And you get a turn
- 2016.10.31 And you get a turn
- 2016.10.31 Ice Cream Cone Anaya-Ballerina Colette-Bat Mandy-Owl Adelaide-Butterfly Emma
- 2016.10.31 Neighborhood rope walk in Halloween costumes
- 2016.11.01 Bead stringing
- 2016.11.02 Matching color tablets and objects in the environment
- 2016.11.08 Preparing to wash the plant
- 2016.11.08 Washing the leaves of a plant
- 2016.11.09 Putting work away
- 2016.11.15 Washing a table
- 2016.11.15 No spot will be missed!
- 2016.11.16 Drawing with crayons
- 2016.11.21 Reading Stone Soup
- 2016.11.21 Jeff playing guitar and singing (Colette not pictured)
- 2016.11.22 Making Sharing Soup
- 2016.11.22 Colette and Maria put the items they brought into the basket
- 2016.11.22 Don’t worry – not everything will actually be in the soup
- 2016.11.22 Mandy reading to the children
- 2016.11.29 Washing a table
- 2016.11.29 Scrub-a-dub-dub!
- 2017.01.19 Enjoying a book
Thanks for sharing the pictures of Colette and her school days. Too bad I didn’t have pictures of your school days. I remember asking you some of those same questions and you said, I just lived it I don’t want to talk about it…. She is a very smart child to play along with you!!!!! Good luck keeping up with her…..
Thanks for sharing and what a wonderful short film of a wonderful life! Miss you, lunch soon??? Barb
PS: I am 65