Emily turned 12 today!!! We have celebrated with her all weekend. Yesterday, she wanted to go to Cheesecake Factory for lunch with the family. We had twelve people go to lunch with us. She got a lot of fun presents. You can tell in the picture below that she was pretty excited. After …
My Emily is growing up. Can you believe it? Does she not look 17 in this picture? If you read my last post, you already know that Emily’s hibiscus bloomed for the first time today. I showed it to her when she got home and she was really excited. She calls the plant “Hi-Be” and …
A few weeks ago, Emily’s class made 3D salt dough maps in class. We had to make the salt dough at home and send it to school in a plastic baggie and provide the pizza box and supplies to decorate the map, but they did the rest of the project in class. I told Emily …
Several weeks ago, Emily had the opportunity to make a cell cake for extra credit in her science class. It could be made of any food as long as it was all edible and large enough to feed half of her class. She chose to make an animal cell cake, which is round. We did …
Today was field trip day for Emily’s class! They went to Frontier City, which is a local theme park. I went along as a chaperone. There were 7 girls in my group. We all had a good time. One of the hardest things was trying to keep up with everyone when some girls did …
This spring, Emily tried out and was accepted into the Honor Choir at her school. They practiced after school one day per week. A few weeks ago, they had their Honor Choir performance at the local high school. The performance included Honor Choirs from all the elementary schools that feed into our high school. We …
One night last week, Emily’s school hosted a 3rd grade math carnival. We all went and played lots of games. I am going to let Emily tell you all about it. She is going to be my guest blogger for today! ~*~ Hi everybody, it’s Emily. On Wednesday I went to a Math Carnival! I played lots …