Computers & politics

This morning was my first true working day with the 1-3 grade students. I made some activities over on quia.com that introduced computer terms and also gave me time to observe the student's reading and mousing skills -- very Montessori of me to observe, observe. Some of them enjoyed the activities so much and were sooo excited that these were Internet "games" they asked me to write down the website so they could play at home. Yay, I captured their imaginations!

After I was finished with the students, I set to work finding an online phonics program to help some of the still emergent readers. Then I put a lot of energy into getting the iMac to print across the network. It took finding out that I needed to turn on the Windows Unix print support component and faking a printer driver, but eventually I hit "print" and heard the sweet sound of success!

This evening was also interesting. Jeremy's parents asked to use our house to host what was basically a house party/informal meeting with one of our county commissioners. It went really well, the attendees had good questions and the commissioner was honest, intelligent and had some great responses to the questions asked. He also had to bring his 4YO son because his wife was called into work, and this was Aenea's time to shine as a budding babysitter -- she kept him enthralled the entire two and a half hours and when they went to leave he had to have Aenea walk with him out to his car! It was super cute!