Emily is sick
Aug. 11th, 2007 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petmoosieWe had to cancel today's play date.
Space camp was probably good for Emily. The first week, they didn't challenge her knowledge of space and spacey themes. The second week, they definitely ramped up. Perhaps because they knew her from the first week, perhaps because Endeavour was launched this week. They spoke about dehydration, which is a big risk in weightlessness, because your body doesn't signal thirst. They spoke about asteroids and meteorites and the difference. Emily liked the sports, and coloring, and made a good friend in a boy named Ben. Today's play date was supposed to be with him. The two of them also played a lot of games involving ghosts at camp.
Emily knows a lot more vocabulary than I would expect from a girl of her tender years. She was playing a game on PBSkids.org that made that surprisingly obvious. "Silhouette" was one word that surprised me.
I don't know if I need to worry about whether she is gifted. The public schools here do definitely have offerings for G&T kids, both pull-out and special dedicated schools. I would definitely prefer that she not have to go to the special dedicated schools, though.
Tim has a headache from lack of caffeine. This is his usual weekend ailment.
Space camp was probably good for Emily. The first week, they didn't challenge her knowledge of space and spacey themes. The second week, they definitely ramped up. Perhaps because they knew her from the first week, perhaps because Endeavour was launched this week. They spoke about dehydration, which is a big risk in weightlessness, because your body doesn't signal thirst. They spoke about asteroids and meteorites and the difference. Emily liked the sports, and coloring, and made a good friend in a boy named Ben. Today's play date was supposed to be with him. The two of them also played a lot of games involving ghosts at camp.
Emily knows a lot more vocabulary than I would expect from a girl of her tender years. She was playing a game on PBSkids.org that made that surprisingly obvious. "Silhouette" was one word that surprised me.
I don't know if I need to worry about whether she is gifted. The public schools here do definitely have offerings for G&T kids, both pull-out and special dedicated schools. I would definitely prefer that she not have to go to the special dedicated schools, though.
Tim has a headache from lack of caffeine. This is his usual weekend ailment.
