For the Love of Four Square
I’ve been meaning to give another update on homeschooling, now that we have gone for a whole month. But first, here is a fun photo game for you.
What is this?
What do you think this is?
Here’s another view.
C’mon, you got to know it by now. Here’s more of a clue.
Yep. Now you’re getting it. That’s the driver side window of my van. It looked kind of pretty in its shattered state, so I got a little artsy fartsy.
Here’s another question for you… What did this? The police officer who came by my house to file a report said that it looked like a pebble got kicked up by the lawnmower guys or just a big truck driving down the street and it hit my window. I admit that it looks like an accident because nothing was taken and the doors were still locked. The “pebble” was not found when I was sweeping out/vacuuming glass out of the van, however, so I’m not convinced. What could have happened between the hours of 12:30pm and 2:15pm?
For the last few days, I have been parking my car at the end of our driveway to keep the playground ball (and little kids) from bouncing out into the street. We chalked up a four square court and have been playing for recess.
Yesterday, Josh came into our room with a big question mark in his look and said, “Our cars are in the street.” I told him we had been playing four square, and got up to get my keys so that we could move the cars back. Josh still looked confused by my reply and I discovered that he has never played. So we postponed the car moving and got the kids outside to give Daddy a lesson. Once he caught on to the rules, he was like a little kid. He loves playground games. It was a lot of fun.
Getting my window smashed in, however, was not.
Posted on October 1st, 2009 by trish
Filed under: Artsy Fartsy, Haley Kids, Homeschool, Life
YIkes. Nice pictures, but terrible damage. So sorry. Looking forward to hearing more about homeschool, too. What is foursquare?
I guess Four Square wasn’t a big game in Hawaii. Josh and Morgan both didn’t know what it was. I wonder if Sean knows. Anyway, there’s a link above… at foursquare dot org. It’s a super fun game played with playground ball and one person in each square. The squares are numbered 1 to 4 and the object is to get into square one and stay there as long as possible. The ball is bounced and hit to a square not your own. If it hits the line or goes out of bounds, you’re out and you move to the fourth square. The person in the first square serves always so they have an advantage. They can also call out weird rules at the start of each round (like double bounce or duel or glass ball which is no bouncing). We don’t keep score.
I remember playing in grade school and then a couple of months ago we played it at Pack Meeting. (I got a little competitive and would love to take Josh down on an indoor court.) And then I read that Four Square could be used to teach kids who learn by doing–yelling out the answers to math problems while hitting the ball.
Will work on another update to put up this week.
hey trish, your link is well, bogus. i have no idea what the heck it is talking about.
up top it says foursquare church…then at the bottom. i don’t know.
just thought i should let you know i couldn’t make sense of your link.
anywho….ya, the whole idea that a pebble did that is weird to me.
still that sucks.
i need to catch up on your blog….you’ve got quite a few i haven’t seen.
see ya
ya it’s for a church. i just looked at it again
Thanks Susie! I fixed the link. It’s actually www dot squarefour dot org.