Chloe’s been cooking using the clever stuff from https://www.raddishkids.com. I’d have to say everything’s been coming out great and she’s really been enjoying it!
Making chicken tacos…
Eating chicken tacos!
Soft pretzel bites!
Chloe made gumbo! Then we watched The Princess and the Frog, which opens with a father and daughter making gumbo. How about that?
Chloe felted up a storm for her school’s holiday market fundraiser. Check out all the things she made, all felted!
…and more!
This was part of her classwork, which believe it or not is Business Math. About time they taught this stuff to kids early. Here’s a breakdown of what they were working on, leading up to the holiday market where they sold their products:
11/29 Business Math begins with a focus on how loans work and simple interest calculations. Students will also be working on a business plan for a small market of their own. Here’s the tentative timeline: 12/2 Decisions made regarding what students will be selling 12/5 Estimate start up costs and applications for loans due. Begin working on logo/sign 12/9 Create inventory lists with estimated units for sale and submit pricing ideas 12/15 Market opens with student stores at 12:00 for 6th grade pre-sales. 12:45 Market opens to the general public
How did Chloe get that black eye? She got a stilt to the face! Here she tells the story:
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Chloe has been busy felting up a storm! Felting is where you take loose fibers of something like wool, and turn them into something more useful or interesting. Here she’s made breakfast: toast, egg, bacon, plate and fork! All out of loose wool.
Here she’s made a holiday cake out of wool by felting. These interesting art objects will be sold during a fundraiser for her school
Time to mash the ‘taters!
Time to eat the taters! And the turkey, stuffing, green beans and cranberry sauce!
…and now it’s time to sculpt the mashed potatoes into a HORROR BUNNY!
Here she is with her friend Sophia, about to hit the streets for CANDY! It turned out to be a pretty terrible night for it with cold weather and torrential downpours. Oh well, that happens. They had fun anyway.
Here’s how the jack-o-lanterns looked on my porch.
Last year we started a new tradition. I guess you could call it “The Smashing of the Pumpkins”, which we do when they’ve gotten too rotten to really use anymore.
On the side of Mt. Saint Helens, you know, the volcano you may remember from 1980? It’s right up the street, more or less, from Portland. Volcanoes throw out lava, which makes lava tubes, which result in fun caves to explore. Chloe’s 6th grade class just had an overnight camping trip to explore this very thing! The “Ape Caves” – named after the Ape climbing club who discovered them some years ago, and a neat place to visit.
At the very tail end of summer vacation, we managed to squeeze a quick camping trip out to the KOA outside of Astoria, right across the road from Ft. Stevens State Park. So many things didn’t go as planned, we lived a comedy of errors.
Here we are trying to put up my big tent:
Even though we’d practiced this in Portland, somehow we were incapable of assembling it on-site and ended up breaking two tent poles before we gave up. I slept in the back of the truck instead. Both our inflatable mattresses weren’t holding air so no padding. We all had sore bones.
Here’s the thing: it had been so scorching hot in Portland that none of the three of us thought much about cooler weather clothes, and sure enough it was nearly 30 degrees cooler at the beach. We didn’t freeze completely, but we were a little chilly.
Chloe had fun making s’mores over the fire. One thing we didn’t screw up was the food, we got that right. Except for the part where I forgot about the raccoons. They woke Lisa up three times the last night ransacking our camp. I didn’t think to secure my groceries and they made off with a loaf of bread.
At least Lisa and Chloe had better luck with their tent.
The KOA is chock-full of kid activities. An indoor pool, and outdoor pool, game room, mini-golf, movies, bikes other outdoor games and this thing that Chloe’s on. It’s a gigantic jumping pad that usually had 6-10 kids bouncing up and down on it at any time.
We did have a nice time at the beach.
That’s Lisa and Chloe way out there by the surf.
Chloe loves her crabs.
And she loves rolling in the warm sand.
In the end, despite all the things that went wrong we had a good time after all and most importantly, Chloe says she enjoyed it. That’s what we were shooting for.