Tigermama talks

Friday, October 16, 2009

Katykins meets Bazooka

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

New Writing Skills

Last year I posted Tigergirl's first few attempts at writing. She had written out the lyrics to that song from The Sound of Music about needles pulling thread and tea with jam and bread. This year it's Tigerboy's turn. I have found two great examples of Tigerboy's blossoming skills as a writer. This one is short and to the point:



The next one is a bit more complicated. Tigerboy's music teacher sent it to us via email. Since TB is usually a model student (the teacher's own words), I'm thinking the contract was sent to us because it's so cute rather than as a concern about Tigerboy's behaviour in class.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Blogs?

As most of you know, I am starting a post-graduate diploma in teaching elementary school here at The American University of Beirut. I had my first classes last week. In one of them (Teaching Reading to Elementary School Students) the professor had us get together in groups of four and write down all of the things we had read in the past week. I had "blogs" down on my list and, I KID YOU NOT, a young (they're ALL young) girl in my group asked me, "What are blogs?". Is it possible, in this day and age, for young people not to know about blogs? Wow! Anyway, it got me thinking about how much I enjoy reading blogs and how neglectful I have been towards this one.

I'll try to do better.

P.S. I sent out the three packages for the pay-it-forward blog giveaway at the end of August. I hope they arrived!