Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Silly Fish

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Here is one of Amelie's compositions, written on March 10th and titled "Silly Wish." She did this one on a day that they had a...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Teach Your Child to Read

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We've been doing Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons at home with Amelie for the past couple of months. (She is learning lots a...
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Sunday, March 27, 2016

Easter Eggs

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We dyed Easter eggs! ( Link to last year .) They seemed skeptical at the beginning:  But got interested quickly. The plan is to turn ...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Bernie Park, etc.

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We went for a very quick trip to the bootheel for my grandma's birthday. It was unexpectedly chilly (it even snowed on us!) but we did g...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Chapter Books

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Amelie has listened to 50 chapter books. I made a blog post near the beginning of when we started reading chapter books instead of only pic...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

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In some of Amelie's recent schoolwork, she's written that she wants to be a fashion designer. On Saturday, she designed a teenage mu...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Rainbow Facepaint

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It was Ridgeway Funday today - it's Amelie's school's fundraiser. There was a ring toss and a cake walk and a maze made out of c...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Tough Kids

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Who you lookin' at?
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Fossil

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I found this mold fossil at Grindstone Nature area! Isn't it neat?  We kept looking and found several fossils - I was more excited ab...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Writing

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Amelie has been struggling with writing in Kindergarten. (Mostly, she just doesn't want to do it and dawdles during writing time and has...
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Friday, February 26, 2016

James Says

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Upon seeing a humane society commercial: "Why are those dogs in cages? Are those dogs in JAIL?" It really sounds like James says...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Valentine's Day

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Yesterday, James asked to do a craft and we made valentines using the same basic principle as this . They specifically wanted to use glitter...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Clifford, the Big Family Musical

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I took the kids to see Clifford, the Big Family Musical (part of the University concert series) last night.  There he is! James ...
Saturday, February 6, 2016

Dot Paint

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Cabell sent us some dot paints, which immediately jogged my memory that my friend Amanda had recommended them about a year ago even though I...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

James Says / Amelie Says

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Sam explained the no dogs sign at our neighborhood park (no dogs on the playground mulch - there are plenty of dogs making the loop around t...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Kids Being Weird

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This is a video of the kids being weird from back in November. They totally independently set up a "band," and this is what I caug...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Christmas Morning

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We opened presents on Christmas morning. The kids had quite a pile! I actually ended up putting a few back into the closet, maybe for a birt...