Monthly Review

Yesterday Alyssa had her first group monthly review at MCP. Each month we meet with our advisor to report on how things are going and where we are in our lesson plans, but every few months we have a group show and tell, where each child can report on something they've been learning about. Alyssa made a ziggurat (ancient Mesopotamian temple) out of blocks and talked a bit about it. She also shared a book she wrote a couple of weeks ago (all on her own) about her new Moxie doll that she was so excited to finally earn enough money to buy. She was so excited to share her ziggurat, and she practiced what to say about it, but when it came time for her turn, she just said, "I made a ziggurat....And here's my book..." and then she read her book.

(For the life of me, I can not get this picture to not be sideways. Sorry!)

All of the kids were so cute. Most of them shared poems they had either memorized or written themselves, a couple shared reports they had done on animals, and there was one little boy who read a story he wrote summarizing most of the story of Star Wars. He also had a stack of papers with him that turned out to be recipes for Strawberry Waffles. From the amused look his mom had, the recipe idea was all his own. He actually drew and wrote on each paper, instead of making copies. The recipe had a picture of a brown square with lines in it (the waffle, of course) with a big, bloody looking smear across the top of it, and across the top of the paper it said to get a waffle, put strawberries on it and whipped cream on it. I can't find the paper, but I wish I could so I can copy it - his spelling was so cute!