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This week we did "The Mystery of Beginnings and Endings," which is basically "Here is the life story of a person, and at every step the Spirit of Love and Mystery that some people call God was with her." Blah, blah, blah, whatever.
Our assistant DRE was on vacation this week, and I was shamefully not on the ball, so I didn't order lifespan illustration cards from Montessori suppliers, nor did I make my own illustrations ahead of time. But that ended up being okay, because Joanna and I got the kids (only three today) to help us draw the pictures. I think that helps the lesson feel more participatory.
After the 'story' portion, we talked about people being born and what they remembered from when they were really little, and then about people dying and people they knew who were very old. Then we had snack, and then some free arts and crafts time. (Our free play almost always winds up being random arts and crafts. I'm not sure why, but I'm not going to complain!)
Next week is the start of a two-month OWL program, which means I get a break. Next week is also a teacher appreciation brunch and an orientation meeting for spring term teachers, so I'm going to be at church from 10:30am to about 2:30pm. Oh well, free food is always a bonus. *grin*
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After dropping it halfway finished on December 17th, I finally finished attacking ch. 12 of "Secrets" with the Editing Pen of Death. Yay! Of course, now I'm stuck going through the file and actually making all the changes (a lot of minor deletions and reworded phrases, at least one wholesale removal of a scenelet, one new scenelet added to play up a particular theme, some cut-and-paste rearrangement in Ginny's internal monologues), which is just as tedious as marking everything up with red pen.
But there is a certain satisfaction in the work. When I'm done, the chapter still won't be ready -- it has to go to beta first, and then I'll have to do one last pass to deal with those comments and corrections -- but it will be a hell of a lot better than it was in rough draft.
So that's good. With a bit of luck, I may have it posted by January 20th. (But don't count on it. I procrastinate like a mad procrastinating thing. *grin*)
Our assistant DRE was on vacation this week, and I was shamefully not on the ball, so I didn't order lifespan illustration cards from Montessori suppliers, nor did I make my own illustrations ahead of time. But that ended up being okay, because Joanna and I got the kids (only three today) to help us draw the pictures. I think that helps the lesson feel more participatory.
After the 'story' portion, we talked about people being born and what they remembered from when they were really little, and then about people dying and people they knew who were very old. Then we had snack, and then some free arts and crafts time. (Our free play almost always winds up being random arts and crafts. I'm not sure why, but I'm not going to complain!)
Next week is the start of a two-month OWL program, which means I get a break. Next week is also a teacher appreciation brunch and an orientation meeting for spring term teachers, so I'm going to be at church from 10:30am to about 2:30pm. Oh well, free food is always a bonus. *grin*
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After dropping it halfway finished on December 17th, I finally finished attacking ch. 12 of "Secrets" with the Editing Pen of Death. Yay! Of course, now I'm stuck going through the file and actually making all the changes (a lot of minor deletions and reworded phrases, at least one wholesale removal of a scenelet, one new scenelet added to play up a particular theme, some cut-and-paste rearrangement in Ginny's internal monologues), which is just as tedious as marking everything up with red pen.
But there is a certain satisfaction in the work. When I'm done, the chapter still won't be ready -- it has to go to beta first, and then I'll have to do one last pass to deal with those comments and corrections -- but it will be a hell of a lot better than it was in rough draft.
So that's good. With a bit of luck, I may have it posted by January 20th. (But don't count on it. I procrastinate like a mad procrastinating thing. *grin*)
