I love spring in Korea. The flowers are out, the weather is nice (most of the time), people are out, and we are biking everywhere again. I got the kids each a little scooter, too, to ride around for fun, but also to take in our carry on luggage to Spain for some motation when we first arrive! They’ve been having fun riding around on the road in front of the house in the afternoons…. and Avi brings his into base some times to ride at the playground while Zoe is at music and art. He has started biking in sometimes, too, it just depends on the weather and how much time we have.
Bryan was in the Philippines for two weeks for an exercise, which was fun for him.
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We were able to go out to the flightline when he arrived, which is always fun. The kids got to hear his voice on the radio, too, since he was leading the flight. Zoe got to say something on it and yelled, “pilsung. i love you daddy” It was cute for everyone to here, I’M SURE.
The kids and I have been busy at schoolwork. Avi has renewed interest in school; it’s like a little lightbulb turned on. He seems to love math work; it’s fun counting and measuring and comparing stuff in our Singapore K curriculum. He also likes to write…he has been doing well with Writing Without Tears that we got from the preschool he attended last fast, and also just traditional copywork that I write for him. So, although he likes the letters and recognizes them he is still not super motivated to sound them out. He can do some basic three letter words but drags his feet. I just let that be right now.
Together the kiddo’s do history and science and art. Zoe will read and note-take for both subjects, and also listen to our read-alouds, but they both do the experiments, mapping and crafts. Right now, all three subjects are super aligned because we studying renaissance time and astronomy. Its really fun to delve in. Zoe read a biography about Magellan, Copernicus and Galileo. They are also loving their wooden solar system mobile craft. We paint a new planet to hang as we learn about it. Star spotting has been tough, though, with all the light pollution and haze.
Zoe has progressed through her Singapore 2nd grade math just in time for Standardized testing that we are doing this week. Today was the first day – reading, vocabulary, and sentence structure tests – she said it was easy. We have 3 more days of tests this week.
For mothers day this past weekend I was treated to an alone night at the Turumi! It’s so nice to get some focus time for myself, and that is what I wanted for the day. So, Saturday afternoon they dropped me at the library, where I worked on some of my writing project. Then I popped over to the BX for lunch and checked in for a night to myself. It was great. On Sunday I had Bryan pick me up and at home the kids had some beautiful gifts for me. They picked an amazing wildflower bouquet from the park and some crafts.
Other than that I’ve been scanning the local sales website for 220v appliances to replace our old ones and bring to spain. I’ve gotten a hairdryer (i do own one, it’s for crafts, an iron, a hot glue gun, and some converters for our nice things like the blender and vacuum that I wont’ replace. It’s been fun, also, to go through EVERY room and donate stuff. I took 3 large black trash bags full of stuff to the thrift store.
