TTC Day 2

OMG what a day! I went to bed too late last night, I didn't realize my iPhone was running low on juice and it turned off in the middle of the night.  I woke up totally late and Max ended up having to take me to metro station closer to the city.  The projects were fun to see, lots of people had great ideas, some people are still trying to figure stuff out.  Yeah, the teacher liked my project/presentation.  It was using play dough to make a monster and learn the parts of the body.  I gave each kid a hunk and they could make a body, then I would prompt them 'Would you like to make some eyes, how many do you want?' and they had to say 'May I have 3 eyes?' etc.

We also did our demo lessons,(to show parents/kids how lessons are and if ).  The demo is standard, everyone has to do the same thing, but of course we all put our individuality into it, so it never comes out the same from person to person. We have to do an introduction in Italian and then we go into English.  I am very nervous because I don't like to speak Italian in front of groups of people.  I know that my Italian is pretty good, but I'm still not that confident when I am the center of attention.  We were split into 2 groups and I volunteered to go with Lorenza the head of all MFs in our area, who also was doing the evaluation, because I don't know her.  I think I would feel more self conscious in front of Isabella.  I was nervous anyways.

On the home front: All the Nonno has been talking about is taking Sophia ice skating.  I keep telling him, you can't just shove her on the ice and expect her to have fun, she needs adult supervision and someone to play with her. I got home today and before I even got my coat off, Sophia told me (guiltily) is that Nonno bought her mittens. Today they went to the rink in Brugherio's center, they didn't take any gloves, so she couldn't go.  So the Nonno went and bought her an expensive pair of ski mittens - and for what???? so she could go ONE day?   It's not like she doesn't have 100 woolen mittens from them already! And then the Nonno just remembered  that he forgot to gas up our car (I guess Max had asked).  I think he was thinking out loud to himself, but I said I would do it, (because I needed to get out of the house and get some air).  But of course, despite me having my jacket and shoes already on, the Nonno insisted that he go and argued with me, just adding fuel to the fire. By the time I got back, Max was home and said he had the day off so he would take her tomorrow.  The Nonni have such hard heads!

Project 2: sports. have no clue what I am going to do.  I will probably bring in the items from sports and have the kids run to them and try them on.  But we need to make something, so I'm thinking flash cards.  Maybe they can run up and touch them? match the correct items to the correct flash card?