Tomato Garden Notes

We hadn't been to the garden in weeks and discovered a jungle where only sprouts had been late one summer evening.

Children at twilight,
in the garden,
on safari,
lurking in the weeds.

Plants are up,
water's down,
a month ago,
just a seeds.

Tomato Treasure Hunt-
over a hundred
in our bucket.
Baby adds some stones.

Darkness settles,
those with decorum,
would be speaking
in hushed tones.

Tools are discovered,
in an unlocked shed,
guarded by a brown recluse.

Weapons
are handed out-
now they're on the loose!

Boys get shovels
and they dig,
a hole in middle of the path.

At a word ,
it's filled back up-
fearing someones'
wrath.

It's late
I'm tan-or is it dirt?
"You'll have to come back
to finish your work."

"It's time to put on make-up"
(a little boy's quote),
as mud goes up-
from toes to throat.

A train sped past,
 8 minutes since
 the shudder and the blast.

We know because
they filmed it,
filmed it to the last.

I hear tinkeling-
child-laughter-sounds,
like echoes, where I'm at.

Hide-and-seek is happening,
while
I am deep within
 the plant.


I can't help it-
It gets blurry.
Is it now-
Or is it then?

am I ten or-
am I thirty?
It's all so slow-
then-sudd-en.

I hear childhood...
I smell green...
I taste red...
I feel I've been.

BFSU Vol 1 Thread A Lesson Links

Vol 1

Thread A: Nature of Matter

 A/B1  Organizing things into Categories

A-2 Solids, Liquids, and Gases    They Might Be Giants song

A-3 Air is a Substance

A-4 Matter I: Its Particulate Nature

A-5 Distinguishing Materials

A-5A Magnets and Magnetic Fields                 utube  bill nye 1/3 ,  2/3,  3/3

A-6  Matter II: Air Pressure and the Earths's Atmosphere

A-7 Air: A Mixture of Gasses (Mixures & Chemical Reactions)

A-8 Matter II: Evaporation & Condensation

A-9 Matter IV: Dissolving, Solutions, and Crystallization

A-10 Rocks, Minerals, Crystals, Dirt, and Soil      3 min intro video

2012 Field Trips

Field Trips in 2011-2012 school year

 

Martin Luther King Walk; BYU

Princess and the Goblin; UVU play

Natural History Museum of Utah; SLC

The Hundred Dresses; BYU Children's play

How I Became a Pirate ;SCERA play

Tall Tales; SCERA play

Two Merchants of Venice; BYU Children's play

Christmas Concert in (only!)German; BYU & area German clubs

Utah Symphony Pictures at an Exhibition; Covey Center

Many BYU MoA workshops

Authors Panel Discussion; Provo Lib

Bean Museum ; BYU (incl. basement!)

Illustrators Panel Discussion; Provo Lib

Fancy Nancy play

Handicraft Ideas

Just a List

wee wonderfuls look alike doll

triangle banner

pillow cases

napkins or placemats with button for silverware

bookcover with pocket for pens (journal)

felt pencil case...

how to patch a hole in the knee (cute)

aprons

wee wonderfuls paper doll pillow as gift

bag for sewing with applique

bundle of dolls

headband...

lds patterns

Primary Children's Hospital donations

Do the Beastie Boys count as School?

One day I showed funny clips of As You Like It to our kids after reading the Lamb's version. It was culture at its height, they understood it, it was poetic, it was beauty in motion set in a Japanese backdrop of holistic transformation...

Then that night my husband whipped out a couple Beastie Boys videos (appropriate ones). Now I love the Beastie Boys as much as the next person (appropriate ones) and yet  I found myself prompting the kids "remember the Shakespeare we saw today?" " all the world's a stage" "are you getting ...any... of this?".