Education

One Bite: Week Eight

Bite Number Thirty-Three: Streamlining Your Kids’ {Schoolwork} Collection Technically this Bite was supposed to be about organizing kids’ artwork, but as I’m terribly unsentimental and save only the best of the best, we don’t have a lot of that around our house.  What we do have, however, is piles of school progress reports and projects … Continue reading »

Second Grade Performance

I love Brenna’s school.  In addition to providing what I consider to be a high quality academic education, they stress citizenship and character in their students, as well as promoting the equality of all.  In honor of Black History Month the second grade had been preparing an evening concert in tribute of six lesser-known but … Continue reading »

Eating My Words

I had a parent-teacher conference at Anthony’s preschool yesterday.  It was… good.  And important. For the record, I think communication between parents and teachers is incredibly important and should never be underestimated.  But I’ve never needed these conferences before because Brenna has been an exemplary student all along, at the top of her class and … Continue reading »

Ready, Set, Kindergarten

Last year, right around this time, I was freaking out about The Critters’ next steps in school.  In the past twelve months I’ve chilled out some; Brenna very successfully transitioned back into a classroom and loves it.  Anthony went on to do three mornings a week at his preschool, and loves it.  You’d think I’d … Continue reading »

Video: He Reads!

On Brenna’s birthday this year we brought her to a bookstore and because stores like that are as additive as crack for all four of us, we walked out having spent far more money on books for both of The Critters than we’d intended to. Last year when I was homeschooling Brenna I purchased the … Continue reading »

The First Report Card

Brenna came home from school in mid-September with a semi-quarterly progress report.  Academically she was completely on track, but in the comments regarding aspects of her behavior she was lagging behind, with scores (questionably quantifiable, but numerical regardless) in the low 80s.  The lowest score?  An 82 in the category of “Shows Respect”. I flipped … Continue reading »

First Month of School – Thoughts

Brenna’s first month back in school was a success, which doesn’t surprise me but makes me happy nonetheless. So far the transition hasn’t been cheap: $450 for brand new uniforms for the year (from Land’s End because our school has a contract with them and all in size 6x because my closer to eight- than … Continue reading »

Her First Days – A Five Year Recap

          I know I already posted her first day picture here last month, but it really just hurts my heart a bit to see how much she’s grown up in the past five years. I would also like to note the following things, for the record: In these five first day pictures she … Continue reading »

Silent Sunday: First Day of Preschool Year Two

The Carpool Lane

I’m turning into a crotchety old lady, that’s all there is to it.  Because back in my day, when I was a kid attending elementary school, we didn’t have a carpool lane*.  We rode buses to school.  Every day, from kindergarten through the first part of my junior year of high school, when I got … Continue reading »