"Diagonal" Alley at Trapped Escapes

I decided to sign our family up for an escape room adventure. I chose one of the Harry Potter rooms through trapped escapes. We did the newest one called a diagonal Alley which is an escape room that we have to solve a variety of puzzles to get all of the horcruxes to put into the pot and have the room be unlocked. We managed to get out withh five minutes spare. both kids really enjoyed it and would like to go try the other Harry Potter room some other time. They do have other rooms but my kids are such potterheads that I knew they would really like it.

During the first 10 minutes I wasn't sure it was such a great idea that I signed us up. I was really pushing and he's out of his comfort zone with this and he would not have chosen to do this on his own. The group of four we were paired up with were random we didn't know them. They had done escape rooms before and started going all over the place trying to look for clues and it felt kind of overwhelming in such a small space to have them moving around so much and talking about what to look for when we had no clue what was going on. but once we figured out as a group what we needed to do first and got that done then there was more Space to move around because another room got unlocked and there were multiple clues to start solving at the same time.

3rd Grade Basketball Team

Henry is on the 3rd grade basketball team for our school. During third grade our schools basketball teams collaborate with a nearby town park and rec. The coaches are two dads that stepped up to coach these boys, even though they have never coached before. if we have our own coaches we can have our own team and practice at our school otherwise through this collaboration the boys would have been split up and put on different teams.

They practice once a week up at the school & then Saturday mornings they have a scrimmage against one of the other teams through this program. 

They have done to Saturday scrimmage is so far. The first scrimmage they we're tied and played really well against that team. But the scrimmage this past Saturday didn't go so well. The team they were playing obviously had coaches who were experiwenced and had the boys doing plays already and the boys they were playing we're very good at defense.

There are six different third grade teams and four of them are from the town that the park and rec department is in. Eventually those teams will be in the highest division for sports whereas our town will be class 1A, because our town is so small. I believe the other team that plays part of this park and rec collaboration is also a 1A team.

Christmas Caroling

Henry was elected by his classmates to be one of two Representatives on student council for his classroom. One of the things they elected to do as a group was go Christmas caroling at a nearby nursing home. He is in the picture in the center in front.

Meeting "Summertime Dropouts" Actors

A couple of actors that are in Owatonna filming "Summertime Dropouts" came to the school today to talk to the kids and talk about anti-bullying.

H is bopping around in the background in this little clip on FB from Eric Martinez. .

3rd grade class

Here is his class for this year. There are three 3rd grade classrooms at our school and he has Mrs. Milewski like his sister did in 3rd grade. This is the first time in elementary school that they have had the same teacher.

Crash

Just a quick 5 second video... I love his laugh!




He has a weekly playdate with his friend Regan at our house and this one instance I took this to the park to go sledding after school.

Floor Hockey

 Faribault Community Ed offers a floor hockey program for grades kindergarten through 2nd grade. I missed the sign-up last last, well technically not missed it I just didn't call about it early enough and it was already full so this year I signed him up as soon as it came out. He really wanted to learn how to play floor hockey better. They had a short unit on on floor hockey in gym class but it was just doing basic drills which is what he did this first night except he did have the opportunity to learn how to play goalie. They will get to play games against each other as well. Playing games against each other was not something they got to do in gym class. This is only six sessions long but it will be fun for him to learn and he already enjoyed the first class.

Busy Weekend

 It was a busy weekend here. This top picture is of him holding his Valentine box that he made for 4H meeting and for the Valentine party at school this week. It is a Pokeball. I will I will be telling about how I made it on my blog tomorrow.

 Here's a collection of pictures of him at the Science Museum of Minnesota. The kids have some different interest so I went with him to explore while his sister went with their dad. Then we joined up to watch a couple of shows and go see an omnifest movie.

 This next picture is from the Saint Paul Winter Carnival. It's pretty neat to see what they can make out of ice.

 This is Henry's table at our 4-H meeting working on their science experiment. Each table had a different liquid to test and see what it would do to M&Ms and Skittles.

 And this picture is of him dissecting a heart and by dissecting a heart I mean he completely destroyed this guy was hard. This was his first class at Shattuck Saint Mary's. They offer these monthly science classes. He is technically a little young for it yet but I know the teacher and she had said he was fine to take it.

This I just had to share as well. I think there was a couple more pictures I took that he was moving too much and his face was blurred but I was trying so hard to get a picture and he just kept being a goofball.

Sledding with his 2nd Grade teacher

Here is a picture of him with his 2nd grade teacher. They are outside and ready to go down the sledding hill together. The kids in his grade who made their 2nd quarter reading goal got to participate in a sledding party one afternoon and he asked her to ride with him first. She is just a wonderful teacher and he really likes her.