The lion dancers steal the show at the Chinese New Year party. The children can see the students from Johns Hopkins suiting up in the coatroom, and they begin to hop in their seats. When the lions shimmy their way into the auditorium, the children mob them. These are very patient lions, so they allow the children to pat them while the drum and cymbal troupe plays an unchanging rhythm on the stage.
One lion danced past our table and snuffled at Ruby's half-eaten cake. She paused mid-pat to snatch her cake from under his fluffy white kuos and cram it into her mouth.
At co-op this week I led a class on egg anatomy. Pearl's class told me that they never ate chalazae or germinal discs, parts of the egg we had identified in a worksheet. When we cracked a real egg, they found all those parts and had to admit they ate them regularly. Examining egg parts might seem blase, but they clearly enjoyed seeing the details for the first time.
Pearl also tried ice-skating for the first time this week. Sapphire spun around the rink, making friends with toddlers and seniors alike, while Pearl built up the courage to glide across the rink. She did much better than we all expected.
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