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You are here: Home / Archives for Grade One

Interview night

December 4, 2009 by amreen

Today was my first experience with real parent-teacher interviews.  Prior to this, we've had interviews at the kids' nursery school, and with kindergarten teachers. But those were more about social development and behaviour than real academic performance. Grade One is a different … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Tagged With: Academics, children, Grade One, kids, parent-teacher interviews, Performance, school, Studying

Brown Bag Turkey and a Trip to the Farmer’s Market

October 15, 2009 by amreen

I finally downloaded some pictures from Thanksgiving.  Here's my twenty-pound turkey in all it's glistening, savoury glory: I prepared the turkey in a brown bag.  It's absolutely no-fail to the extreme.  It's my ninth year doing this, and every single year, the bird is impeccably … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Tagged With: brown bag, cooking, dinner, farmers's market, Grade One, harvest, kids, recipe, school, Thanksgiving, turkey

Teachers are awesome

October 2, 2009 by amreen

Last night was Curriculum Night at my kids' school.  It's a big, inner-city Toronto school with over 650 kids.  I grew up in small town in the Maritimes, and my school experience was nothing like this.  I am kind of freaked out by the largeness of everything in my kids' life, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: adjusting, Grade One, jitters, principals, school, Teachers

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