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Language Works/Reading: Today for language we talked about all the exciting things we are going to do over the long Thanksgiving break. Some friends said they were going out of town, relatives were coming to visit, and a lot of them were just going to stay home with mommies and daddies. Next, we re...

Language Works/Reading For language, we read a book about Thanksgiving. We learned a few new words like the name of the Native Americans who helped the pilgrims, the Wampanoag. They helped each other and lived in peace. In the fall, they celebrated their fall harvest with a feast where they gave th...

Language Works/Our World: For language today, we read a story about what thanksgiving is and why we celebrate it each year. We learned about the pilgrims and the Native Americans. The pilgrims were people who came to America to be free to do what they wanted away from England. The Native Americans ...

Dear Families, I wanted to inform you that today we experienced our first power outage this year. Com-Ed informed us that 790 people in the area lost power from about 12:30 to 2:00pm due to construction work. Power was restored to us about 1:50pm. The children were safe, warm, and sleeping/having qu...

Tonight, Sydney and I were watching Thomas and Friends and singing the theme song when it ended.

I made a parody of the words and sang: Sydney's 2, she's 4, she's 6, she's 8...

Upon hearing that Sydney looked at me and confidently said, "I'm not 8, I'm 3!"

A couple weeks ago Sydney was trying to put a shirt on after getting out of the tub. As frequently happens, her arm got stuck part way in and rather than backing it up and wiggling it it, she just forced it and panicked. I explained that when your arm gets stuck, you just need to relax, back it up, ...

Tonight, Sydney didn't want to brush her teeth. I explained that if she didn't brush them, her teeth would rot and fall out of her head.

Her response, "They didn't last night."

Language Works: Today for language we reviewed letter “I” by looking at the letter “I” card and identifying uppercase and lowercase “I” all over the card. We then reviewed our letter “I” book by Jane Belk Moncure. We identified all the letter “I” objects in the back of the book and identified lette...

Language Works: Today for language we reviewed our new letter of the week, which is letter “I”. We reviewed our writing without tears letter card and read our letter “I” book by Jane Belk Moncure. Then, we reviewed all the “I” objects in the back of the book and identified letter “I” throughout the...

Language Works/Reading- For language today, we read a book about the U.S. army in honor of Veteran’s Day. We learned about the men and women who serve in the army are called soldiers and they do many different jobs, like mechanics, doctors, cooks, and police officers. We also learned about the vehi...