Glad Sean came for drop off with me this morning. He saw first hand how RIDICULOUS Cam's class is. what a joke...That was my facebook status on the first day of school. I guess the joke's on me because apparently the principal was, in her words, "privy" to some information from my … [Read more...]
How Extracurricular Actitivies Help Students
Close your eyes and think about when you were in school. How many days do you really remember? Of those days, how many of them involve being taught fractions or pronouns? When I tried this experiment, I came up with about 2-dozen total, with not one being an English, Math, or French … [Read more...]
An Education
There's this kindergarten teacher that our whole community raves about; Avelyn didn't get into her class. There are a few kids she knows who are in the same grade; they are all in the other class. I feel kind of bummed about how things have unfolded, which is silly because it's kindergarten and … [Read more...]
Just Like Starting Over
School is here. (Thank goodness! I was so missing the routine.) For some kids, a little reassuring read just might be in order. Here are a few newer ones to add to the ever-growing list of great start-of-school titles. For the wee one just starting out to a new place of care: Don't Want to Go! by … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Ensure a Successful Start to the School Year!
By: Cayla from Running, Recipes, and ReadingYou know what I think of when I think of the first day of school? It's the optimistic odour of freshly sharpened pencils. Sharpened pencils standing at attention in recycled jars, along with chairs tucked under child-sized desks, and a … [Read more...]
Lunch Lady Land
For the past 10 years I have been fortunate enough to stay at home with my kids. When Cuyler was in senior K and Cam was in grade one (and Eva not yet 1) I was asked if I would be willing to work a few hours a week covering EA lunches and supervising a kindergarten class at lunch at their … [Read more...]
uniform thoughts
When my youngest was three, everyday she wore a two piece dropped shoulder polyester peach coloured size 6 woman's outfit. The skirt was cut on the bias for excellent twirling. It was given to us along with many other wacky things by a favourite neighbour to put in our tickle trunk(dress up … [Read more...]
FotoFriday – Twins
One day last year Cuyler realized that he had the same t-shirt as his teacher. Several times they wore their shirts on different days and that greatly upset Cuyler so we picked a Friday. Now every Friday they wear it, along with their jeans and every Friday Cuyler excitedly proclaims … [Read more...]
Schooled
I used to be able (with a few exceptions) to pick out the home-schooled kids in a crowd: they were the quiet, socially awkward ones who liked to talk about medieval times and their pants were always too short.I swore I would never home-school my future children, for the sake of their social … [Read more...]
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