Maybe I should have considered these weakly features.

It seemed easy enough. Copy the tweets about Laundry Elf and friends. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Blog about the most interesting dictation sentences of the week. Check.
Plug the ABC Book by randomly quoting it. (rather, mention something I used to teach Chanya).

Then life happened. As usual, I get too busy living life to chronicle it.

In short, there were no interesting dictation sentences last week. Unless you count the one with the Phineas and Ferb reference. I mean, I thought I was witty when I came up with: Perry the platypus was a metaphor for autocratic systems in the ugliness of the city dump when one kid shouted the nonsense that his teacher was a badger. (The spelling words in this sentence are: platypus, metaphor, autocratic, ugliness, and nonsense).

But Imani was neither impressed that I quoted an episode I liked, nor the fact that I got the teacher animal wrong. But she did smile when she told me that the teacher was a panda, and she cheerfully x’d out ‘badger’ and scrawled ‘panda.’(You can see this episode, Brain Drain, of Phineas and Ferb on Netflix).

As for the shameless Graymatters ABC plug, I’ve got nothing. Chanya is taking a break from ABCs, stuck at not knowing her ‘h’ or her ‘u.’ It’s time to go through Recipe for Reading for a while.

And Laundry Elf and friends didn’t do much last week. But wait! There’s a new character!

1/31:
Who is the woman who does the grocery shopping? She’s a beast! #shoppingdervish

So, for the fourth snow day in a row, teaching gnome held school. Today was different; shopping dervish took over. Paging Laundry elf…

Then there was this development over the weekend:

2/3: Laundry elf tries to buck the late night laundry fail trend. Teaching gnome puts in late planning hrs. Kitchen sprite took hrs up front.

Teaching gnome’s work is never done, she’s reached a stopping point for now.

And this post has come to an end as well. I’ll try to keep the updates weekly from now on, rather than weakly.