Fun Week!

Mar. 1/11

..... her love for games

Mar. 2/11

..... her interest in learning 

Mar. 3/11

..... her connections with people 

We were lucky enough to receive a visit from "the squirrel" from qrok.  The lead singer/songwriter of the band that does all of the Camp Qwanoes music offered to visit Jaymi, after hearing about her recent surgery.  He not only visited to chat, but he sang a bunch of songs as well, brought some free CDs for Jaymi, a tiny silver cross, and a special "Jaymi broadcast" made just for her!

Although she was her typical, quiet, non-verbal (in front of new people) self, she was thrilled.

Mar. 4/11

..... her spontaneity

Jaymi loves to learn, and I love to teach her.  So we are always looking for ideas of new and exciting topics to study.  We decided one day, that it would be so much fun to study chocolate!

So we did.

She has learned how chocolate is made from cacao beans and we have made our own chocolate as well.

She has charted our opinions on various types of chocolate, and explored how it tastes, smells, feels, looks, and sounds.

We have re-read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, along with some great worksheets to go with the book.

And we ended with some 'chocolate math', which involved division of a sectioned chocolate bar, and reviewing fractions, and of course, eating the chocolate.

Balloon Animals, Chocolate & Birthdays

Feb. 24/11

..... her ability to learn new things

I love Jaymi's love for learning and how easily she learns things.

We looked up how to make balloon animals, after first learning about the states of matter.  We got to the part about how gas behaves, and started playing with a long, skinny balloon.  Then we pulled out some more of those balloons and 'googled' how to make balloon animals!

Feb. 25/11

..... her rituals

Her nightly ritual involves reading in bed for about an hour on school nights, 2 hours on non-school nights, and she would (and has) done way more if we let her, or forget to remind her about lights-out.

Feb. 26/11

.....  her effort

I forgot to take a picture this day, but I had this picture of a paper she wrote about how chocolate is made.

Feb. 27/11

..... enthusiasm

Still studying chocolate.  This particular morning was all about taste testing different types of chocolate-covered foods.  We tasted (and rated) chocolate-covered raisins, cranberries, almonds, peanuts, and goji berries.  The consensus between the three of us was - our favourite was the raisins. 

Feb. 28/11

..... her love for Mark & I

Today was Mark's birthday and Jaymi had gone shopping with me, to spend her last $6 on presents for him, from the dollar store.  She bought him some gum, a bunch of electrical tape, an orange construction cone, and his favourite chocolate bar.  She also made a beautiful card with a drawing of his car, saying "Best Car Ever", a colouring page of a birthday cake, and displayed the whole thing on the table, all wrapped up individually.

The reason for the unhappy look in this picture, however, is because ever since surgery, Jaymi hasn't been 100% happy.  She seems sad, or depressed, some of the time.  We are hoping that it will resolve itself when things get back to normal (school full-time, back to ballet & taekwon-do, etc.).