I’m having a hard time staying up late enough to write blog posts lately, and I’ve concluded that it’s all because kindergarten is getting the best of me. It’s hard to get up so early in the morning. It’s hard to learn this fancy new way of writing letters that look halfway cursive. It’s hard…
Recently, the Kindergartener has started bringing home short homework assignments to build upon the new skills they are working on at school in language arts and math. For the most part, these are one page assignments that take only a matter of minutes to finish. But, they’ve also started learning phonetics and are beginning to read….
The Kindergartener had her first homework assignment over the weekend, and to be honest… I was just a little too excited about it. Her teacher has a cute honey bee theme for the classroom this year, so in step with that theme, she wanted everyone to decorate their own honeycomb with pictures or drawings of…
When the Preschooler was born, almost immediately people {even strangers} would routinely say things like, “Just enjoy these baby days because all you’ll have to do is blink and she’ll be going to kindergarten.” That was hard to believe back then. But, I must have blinked. Since, yesterday the bouncy little Preschooler started kindergarten. She…