Posts from — March 2012

If I Could Meet A Character From A Book
By CNVA
2 Armadillo/2012

If I could meet a character from a book, I’d like to meet…
Well… Someone you too, would like to meet.
Meet… Greet…
Meet… Greet…
And while he does look like some meat
I’m sure he is not someone you would like to eat!

Let me see if you could guess who I am talking about.
He is quite popular and that is without a doubt.
Kids like me read him once, twice, or more…
We won’t stop there… we’ll get mum and dad to buy more books from the store!

In some of the books he is very funny…
In some, very crazy…
But a closer look and there is a lot of meaning
In the rhymes and words that we are reading.

For example…
He says he can read with the left eye
He can also read with the right eye
And he can read with eyes shut too!
But it is something that is hard to do!

If you notice I sound like a book read out loud by your mother
Then you may already know the character…
Some of you may already know the answer…
Oh yeah!… there was even a fish, Sally and Nick her brother…

The character I’d like to meet and have a chat…
He wears a tall, red and white-stripped hat…
He has a big red bow tie…
I’m about to tell who he is… so please don’t cry.

Yes he is the star of “I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!”
You know him for sure… He’s the Cat in the Hat!

My daughter seems to be enjoying her wood work elective in school. There they get a chance to work with some machines that we parents probably wouldn’t let them go near to. Drills, cutters, and maybe soon some end mill. But with good instruction and safety gears and procedures in place, then they should be alright. Sometimes it is nice to look back how we wouldn’t want our toddlers to go near a pair of scissors!

I am quite convinced that most parents would want the best for their children. From giving them the best food on the table, clothing, education and so on. We want to give them a home that they can grow up and be inspired in doing well on their own. Setting up a nice study room or area with proper lighting or some inviting cellular shades and other furniture will likely create some inspiration to keep them going as they go through those daily home work from school. What we can give would obviously vary depending on each family’s situation. But perhaps if we look or think a bit further, then perhaps, we could find and give something that is more than an ounce of inspiration.

A few weeks back, someone was telling a story about how his kids made various collections. And indeed I thought that most of us, perhaps in our younger years, had this “collection” in one way or another. I had a collection of dolls when I was a kid. My kids now have their own collection of many other things apart from the toys that they cherish. Now there could be people who collect more of things that sparkle such as precious stones and anything you can say buy gold coins at Golden Eagle. Why people are motivated to have their own collection of something is probably driven by different things. For children, it could be a sense of accomplishment that they could put together a few things, or perhaps a sense of achievement that they could think of something unique to collect.