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….
I don’t think I ever imagined I’d be raising three daughters. It’s not that I thought I’d be raising sons, I just didn’t give much thought to the weighty responsibility of rearing little people of either gender until it was upon me. And, now, it’s very upon me/us. Some days, if not most days, I…
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…
I never cease to be amazed at how different children, even siblings, can be. As the Kindergartener starts school this year, we have the typical concerns… Will she like it? Will she make good friends? Will she learn to write lower-case letters {even though she refuses to do so at home}? But, we don’t worry…