Anna had her school Halloween parade and party today. She was also the daily helper, and I volunteered to help out with the class activities for the morning. Exciting day! The class made jack-o-lantern costumes out of paper bags over the last couple of weeks, and these were what they wore for the parade. They [...]
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This is our first experience with daily homework: spelling lists. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday have pretty normal assignments. Thursday is a more open-ended assignment, where we have to, as a family, come up with a “creative” way to use & practice the words. We knew it would be tough, since we are so new at [...]
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Anna is so excited to have the “sharing bag” to bring to school today. Since the color of the month is orange, she has to bring in an orange mystery item for her classmates to guess. Her clues are: 1. You eat it. 2. It’s crunchy. 3. It grows in the ground. Any guesses? No? [...]
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One of the advantages of sending Anna to the same preschool as Carolyn is that she gets to do all the same fun things! So today was Anna’s first field trip, just like Carolyn’s four years ago. Anna was pretty upset when we got to the farm, because she “wanted to go to school today!” [...]
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Tonight was the get acquainted/curriculum night for Carolyn’s 2/3 classroom. It was great to see what she’s been working on, and how her classroom works. All the kids have jobs, which they had to write a letter of application to get. Carolyn is one of the class librarians – which makes sense considering her love [...]
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OK, so smile potatoes aren’t the healthiest food out there, but they really can’t help but make you smile… …especially when they make such cute leftover bentos! Also, mini sandwich thins are about the best invention ever – the girls both adore mini foods. If it has “mini” in the name they are far more [...]
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Carolyn came home today and told me about a math problem she had to do in school: x + y = 10 y = 4 x + x = 12 x = ? I can’t say for certain, but I’m pretty sure I wasn’t doing this kind of math until at least 7th grade…
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Anna was so very ready to start school that she was beside herself with excitement this morning! After we put Carolyn on the bus and I managed to drink a little coffee, we headed down to the school and waited for them to open up the doors. Anna showed her teachers the little treasures she [...]
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Anna got to go to her preschool today and meet her teachers! She was a tiny bit shy at first, but then warmed up pretty quickly. She apparently thought she needed to show off every bit of knowledge she’s already stored up, as she walked around the room pointing out various things that had her [...]
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Carolyn was going to buy for her first day. But when I mentioned that I would make her “back to school” bento the second day, then, she changed her mind. I’m out of practice, a bit, so I packed this one the night before. (All but the cookies – I added those in first thing [...]
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