A New Year Kind Of…

The last of Christmas is heading to the attic for a nice long nap.  Looking back at Christmas, it is so much like a tidal wave that I feel a little shaky now that I’ve been put back on level ground.  Will I remember the reflection of the lights in my children’s eyes?  Did I decorate enough cookies with them? Drink enough hot chocolate? Will they remember why we decorate our tree with white lights, silver, gold and scarlet red? Did we forget anything?  Will they reme...

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Have I told you these kids are awesome? Wow! We have learned how to complete our calendar math page in our math journal. We are three stories into our reading books and we know that stories have characters, a setting and a problem to be solved. Our writing now includes paragraph form as well as having a beginning, middle and end to the stories we write. This week we are continuing to study matter by making apple sauce to observe a change in matter that is created when we apply heat to the sol...
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