Reading and Cooking

This week has been very busy. That seems to be the theme lately..busy, busy, busy. I had intentionally made this week busy becuase this was the week Jason was suppose to go to the States. Since I was planning on bringing the kids to school everyday I decided this would be a good week to sign up for reading with Sofia's class and cooking with Ali's class. Yesterday I spent some time in the morning reading with the kids in Sofia's class. I read stories to about 2 kids at a time. It was fun to read to them and interesting to see the difference in sounding out words as well as attention span. The girls were excited to read with me and the boys really just wanted to play. Sofia's teacher gave me a list of kids to read with but there were other girls who also wanted to read with me. I was happy to read to whomever wanted to listen. The boys on my list needed some coaxing to sit with me to read. It is interesting to see the difference between all the kids.

This morning I cooked with Ali's class. I thought about what I could cook that would involve 12 kids. The thought was a little daunting since it is enough work to bake with my own two kids never mind 12 kids. I decided to make cookies but I made the cookie dough in advance. This worked out perfectly. I gave each child a piece of dough to roll out with a rolling pin and then I had cookie cutters so they could choose what shape they wanted. This took just the right amount of time for the attention span of a 3 year old. It was nice to see Ali interacting with her classmates. The kids came to the table to make the cookies in groups. Since I was the mom doing the cooking, Ali's teacher let Ali go first and to pick 3 friends to start with her. It was interesting to see who Ali chose. Two of her choices were not surprising as she always talks about Clark and Nils but her third choice of Cianna was surprising as I never hear her talk about Cianna. It was nice to have a little insight into Ali's life at school.