Adventures of Seamus' Hat: Dino Digging

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Dino Digging

Morrison is where the Red Rocks Amphitheater is

Today the countdown to Seamus' last occupational and speech therapy visits in-home (since he will get those services at school come August) clicked one off - he had speech therapy today and has one more visit with each therapist next week. Thankfully he was in a talking mood.

Last week Izabel attended an online dinosaur camp with her school. Don't ask what they did we just linked her class up with a program they use for her school called eluminate and let her have fun. So, after lunch we went to the Morrison Natural History Museum. Its a little museum with examples of dinosaurs from the Morrison/Golden area, especially footprints, and examples of animal alive today whose ancestors were alive 3 million years ago give or take a few years. If anyone has been to the dinosaur ridge they are a couple of exits away and fairly similar.

"No pictures now we are excavating" Direct Izabelism

Standing on an Iguanadon footprint - and a nice pic of Great Granma Joyce's Thunderbird in the background (ka-kah - the call of the thunderchicken)

This one has baby (modeled actually size) and Mom footprints complete with nail imprint.

Izabel's finds in the dig - some ancient shells, some called devil's toes and the white one is a clam

Izabel vising a troll - I was excepting a brother or Matt to pop out.

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Virtual Academy???

Izabel is 8 now and attends Colorado Virtual Academy (COVA). It is her 4th year there. She is in 3rd grade but will be in 4th sometime this winter.
What is a virtual academy? It is a charter school (part of the Adams 12 district) that is part of the public school system. We receive all her materials, some of them physically and others on the online school (OLS). As her parents we are her learning coaches and she has a teachers she works with online. She must attend 180 days of school and 968 hours in the year just like all public school children in Colorado, but she can do that at her pace and timing. That means we may cut a day short if it just is not working or we have an activity and make it up later even on the weekends. Because of Izabel's unique situation - ADHD and her abilities in science, math, and art but need for support in language arts and the support with pacing and staying on task (that is as her learning coaches we can be sure she is getting at least what other kids in Colorado are) this form of school is the best option for her right now. Click here to link to COVA.

My Hat

Seamus is on his third hat now. this one is stolen from his mother; it was her hiking hat. Everywhere he goes we now hear, "Where did you get that hat? He looks like an adventurer. No really, where did you get that hat?" The answer is that we have had it so long we cannot remember.

Seamus outgrew his zoo hat but he had 2 of them. My first hat went on hikes - was lost and found by another hiker, then lost and found hanging on a tree on the way back to the trail-head, went to museums, and all over the high plains of Colorado.

Every time I wear my zoo hat someone asks, "Have you been to the zoo today? Your hat says that." No matter what time of day, what I am doing , someone ALWAYS says that exact statement.

Why does the hat go everywhere? Seamus is sensitive to light - part of his Sensory Processing Disorder and cannot stand having the sunlight in his eyes. Reason 2 - Seamus has short hair and doesn't want a sunburn especially at altitude we get a lot of UV - check out the EPA UV index to see if you need a hat (link below). Reason 3 - it is a cool hat that is comfortable.

Adventures of Seamus' Hat

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Dino Digging

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Seamus's Reading List

Izabel's Reading List