Last week was spring break for our crew. On a few of those days the word “spring” was very misleading, but I think the weather may finally be moving in that direction in these parts. We didn’t do anything exotic, but we squeezed in a few days trips to area attractions. One day we went…
Yesterday I took the Toddler into Old Navy where I relearned an important lesson about shopping with young children. Don’t do it. But, if you must, never purchase a rubber bouncy ball {for twenty-five cents} set up as a trap in the children’s clothing area of the store. I’m not sure how I thought this…
The Kindergartener has been learning to read this year using phonics. It’s been so fun to watch and listen to her {sometimes painstaking!} progress. She’s come a long way, and we are proud of her AND indebted to her sweet teacher. In honor of teacher appreciation week, let it be known that we do indeed…
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….