Flyer sent home from school today: “School-Wide Book Character Day! Friday, March 13 Each student will select their favorite character from a fiction book. They will need to complete the “Book Character Report” form, and they will also need to dress up as that character on Friday, March 13th. Let’s make this a fun and [...]
You might remember that last year’s big fourth grade project at my kids school was the re-enactment of the Oklahoma Land Run. Costumes, wagons, cardboard houses, vittles, land surveys, and an actual “RUSH” to claim land ….. ahhhh, good times. This year? Fifth grade? Colonial Fair. (Good God Almighty, does it ever end at this [...]
Matchbox red truck and van to depict parking lot scene before reading the instructions from the teacher that the diorama *must* represent the most climactic scene in the book, thereby rendering our parking lot scene worthless: $6 Dowel rods for ballet bar: $2 Mini hooks to hold up ballet bar: $1 Mirror to purposely break [...]
I am a voracious reader, and support whole-heartedly anything that gets my kids to read. All three of them enjoy reading, but not as obsessively as *I* do …. That’s ok, at least they’re not opposed to it. In fact, they even ask me to take them to the library sometimes …a fact which thrills [...]
Well, perhaps “Hatred” is too strong a term. Maybe a better word would be “annoyance” or “frustration” or “crippling lack of creativity”. Remember how I complained last year about my kids’ school’s freakish obsession with costumes? Yeah, well, it’s already started this year. We’ve had Spirit Week and Just Say No Week, which means we’ve [...]
Child: “Mom, do you know what a Sooner is?” Me: “Well, yes, it’s the mascot of Oklahoma University.” Child: “But do you know where that name came from? About how Sooners were the people who snuck across the starting line at the Oklahoma Land Run to claim their land early? And how they went SOONER [...]
So, home-schooling. I’ve never really given much of an opinion on the subject because quite frankly, I don’t have much of an opinion. I think it is an option that for some families works great, and for some families, is an excuse not to deal with public school. I think public school works pretty well [...]
I like my kids’ new school, I really do. I like the teachers, I like the administration, I like that it’s less than fifty yards from my house, I like the activities they offer, I like the parent involvement, I like that the other kids have been welcoming and kind. What I do NOT like, [...]
The only thing more grueling than trying to keep three high-energy kids entertained during a too-cold-to-play-outside-for-most-of-it Christmas Break with nothing but a paint roller for company? The anticipation of getting them up at 6:30 am for their first day back to school. It’s 10 pm now, and they are still going strong upstairs. I hear [...]
Several of you have asked for photos of the kids’ first day at their new school. Obviously, you know me and my camera obsession well. Happy, smiling children, laden down with new backpacks and school supplies, smiling their “We’re excited but a little nervous, too” smiles. We were still staying with my mom at this [...]