You guys, I can’t believe we’re already at the last day of school! The time is just going by so fast right now. Before you know it, the summer will be gone and we’ll be back to the school routine. But for now, I’m going to enjoy this transition to summer and the slower pace …
Noah’s first grade awards ceremony was this afternoon at the school. They did things a little bit differently. Each child decorated an envelope and the teachers put all their certificates and awards inside of it. At the awards ceremony, each child was called up on stage one at a time and were presented with their …
Emily’s 6th grade graduation ceremony was Friday morning. It was rescheduled from Thursday night due to weather. The school had booked a different venue for Thursday night, but since it was on Friday morning it had to be in the school cafeteria. And it was a standing room only crowd full of friends and family. …
The other week, Emily had to make an ocean biome in a shoebox for her science class. She put a lot of thought into how she wanted her biome to look and I thought it turned out really neat. It even had a stingray that moved! In case you’re curious, these are the supplies that …
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 …
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 …
This weekend, we went to see the new Pete’s Dragon at the theater. The kids watched the original Pete’s Dragon musical before we went to see the new one so they were well aware of the differences between the two. Noah had a hard time sitting still in the theater. This movie did not capture …