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From Owen’s schoolwork that got sent home last night…

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I’ll include Translations/text where I think it’s necessary (after the picture so you can take your best guess first). 🙂

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It cant be 4 becue [because] it is to smll it can’t be 400 because it is to big it has to be 40 becuse it is just riet.

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There are 6 basketballs. There are 3 playground balls. How many balls are they in all?

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I want to go to Furarse [France]. (And then he’s talking to the Frase [French] guy.])

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I went trick-or-treating in Michigan i was harry poter my sis was rapunzul for Hallowen.

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I am thankful for my mom and dad because they take care of me.

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I am thankful for…my mom she is nice and my dad he is responsible for his work. School it is cool. Football is great.

Some art of the back of his schoolwork:

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Learning capitalization (I love that they’re learning actual proof marks!):

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hide somewhere in the farm. You should play a trick on the farmer. You should make a robot turkey. You should stay away from the farmer.

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1. I maked a cake for somwones birday.
2. I jump so higi [high].
3. I am litte [little].
4. I am so funny.

He loved the birthday sleepover he went to:

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I went to a sleepover it was so fun! I had a deleshos berekfest [delicious breakfast]. I had pancas wih wit crem and serep [pancakes with whipped cream and syrup].

He loved this birthday party, too!

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I had a birday praty it was fun it was ethten and teegan and lemie’s [Liam’s] Birday. it had a Ball pip and a playhouse.

Traditions: This is us decorating the Christmas tree, complete with the reindeer on the top!

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  1. First, you refrost [defrost] in the refuregeer [refrigerator] and rehetets [preheat? reheated?] the oven.
  2. Next, you shod reed the directions. and ingredients.
  3. Then, you shod cook the turkey
  4. Finally, you can eat the turkey!

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His favorite thing? He likes to go shopping at Costco. “They have so much stuff.” Complete with the Halloween Cheetos display. (I’m guessing we had just been to Costco when this was assigned!)

Time to decorate!

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The kids were super excited about putting the tree up (since the bag had been sitting in the living room for a whole day)!

Owen was excited when I handed him two bags of Christmas Legos! He had forgotten about them!

Katie’s placement of her first three ornaments:

They were both really good helpers and I didn’t even have to help them much! Yay! And my OCD-tendencies don’t bother me at all—I don’t much care where the ornaments end up!

I don’t think this is nearly enough food.

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We were invited to a friends’ house for Thanksgiving. She and her other guests cook in quantity like we do…so there wasn’t quite enough food for six adults and nine kids. 🙂

Katie’s dinner? A roll, crackers, and cheese. For dessert she tried pumpkin pie, said she liked it, then proceeded to eat just the whipped cream.

Owen’s dinner? A roll, ham, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie with whipped cream.

I did really well overall. I splurged on two glasses of wine throughout the evening…and it was deeelicious. (I haven’t had a glass of wine in probably four months.) Foodwise:

  • 1oz deep-fried pork loin
  • 1/2oz smoked turkey
  • about 3T each of Easter/funeral potatoes, cornbread stuffing, sweet potato casserole, and smoked corn casserole
  • 2 deviled eggs
  • 1 small Hawaiian roll

Dessert was cheesecake. I took a full slice intending to eat the whole thing dammit. And then about halfway through I said “This doesn’t even taste good anymore.” And that was that. Voodoo. 🙂

This is what she picked to wear. And she was damn cute. 🙂

The kids all had fun playing and the adults ended up watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles. 🙂

Painting snowflakes

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Art night ceramics at school! I was clueless as to how to decorate my snowflake…until I finished it…at which point my mind flooded with ideas, all of which I liked better than what I did. The kids’ are great, though you are only seeing the boring back side because they were still drying. And Tom’s impressed me, too…the only one that looks like an actual snowflake! A fun night!

       

Anyone else hate doing art projects with their kids?

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Owen’s pieces usually start out decent enough but then he keeps adding stuff and adding stuff and adding stuff and soon it’s unrecognizable. I realize a first grade project isn’t a big deal but my OCD can’t handle it.

This is disguising Tom Turkey so the farmer can’t find him for Thanksgiving dinner.

  

  • There was one zig-zag string of lights and it was perfect…and then he just off and scribbles on another zig-zag strand on the side.
  • I thought the yellow star on top was good…then he decided to color it green.

Maybe I need to start drinking wine again…

Veteran’s Day Part 2

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The school posted a slew of pictures on Facebook from the assembly today and I snagged these:

I knew from some of the faces it was Owen’s class but it took me a minute to find…his head. 🙂

Two of the three marines in the audience (they played each branches song while the appropriate members stood up).

And lookie here. 🙂

 

Flu shots for three!

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We finally made it in for flu shots at the hospital this morning! I figured what better morning than the morning when we were all already up and showered by 7:15. :/

Owen was adamant about not wanting the shot so got the mist. Katie probably could have gotten the mist but one of the rules is you had to keep your hands completely out of your face all day and we weren’t sure she could do that…so she got the shot. She squawked for the 1.3 seconds it took and then she was fine. Owen made more of a stink about the mist than Katie did about her shot! He knew it wasn’t a shot but he just gets himself so worked up over nothing it’s silly. And then when it’s over and it was no big deal, he acts like he knew it was no big deal the whole time. Kids.

Katie showing Owen her band-aid. (As she repeated many times: “Mama and me got band-aids because we got shots. Owen got drops.”)

Enjoying her stickers:

I’m a monster, I know.

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I wanted to throttle both kids by 6:45am. 

Owen went downstairs to play on the iPad—which he knows he’s not supposed to do. And then got mad at me when he got in trouble for it. (I’m a monster, I know.)

Katie had wandered around this morning and gone downstairs to find Owen and consequently couldn’t make it to the potty in time (when it was actually time) so peed all over the stool and the rug and her PJs…and screamed when I took her PJs off because she still wanted to wear them. (I’m a monster, I know.)

Owen had tried to clean up the pee—with toilet paper, so it was a sopping mess (but at least he tried!)—but after I dumped the TP I tried to clean the stool off in the tub but Owen had left the shower knob on so I got a head and shoulders full of water instead (which normally wouldn’t have been too awful but my hair is currently straightened so that messes that up).

Needless to say I lost my shit just a little bit. Dealing with that crap is never fun, but even less so before 7am. 

Gym Birthday Party

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Of course we were there early, so we waited in the car for a few minutes.

They got to start playing before anyone else got there:

And then it got a little chaotic with 20 kids…but we got to stay out of the crazy and visit with the other parents (and I really hit it off with another mom—which was a bonus!). The end of the party had everyone zip lining which they all loved!

Sunday Swim

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The kids’ lessons are progressing nicely…but today we just get a video of Katie going down the slide during play time. It’s funny—last week was the first week she was even somewhat interested, and one of the instructors made sure to help her climb up and wanted to wait for her at the bottom of the slide. I had to tell them she’s an old hat at big slides and they didn’t need to worry! She showed them today!

Owen helping her up the first time:

 

Veteran’s Day

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We all went to the Veteran’s Day Assembly at Owen’s school. It was very nice, and each of the grades performed either a song or poem. During one of the songs, every child who had a military family member stood up and waved a sign that said “Thank you, Service Members!” (This is a photo from a random person on Facebook.)

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We were a bit too far back to see well, so it wasn’t until afterwards we learned that Owen didn’t stand up…because he was shy. Poor kid. It wasn’t like he was the only one, either—there were probably (conservatively) 50 other kids standing up, too.

This was what he brought home from school:

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1st Grade Veteran’s Day Assembly project

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Owen’s teacher emailed me last night to see if I could help with a class project today for the Veteran’s Day assembly on Wednesday. It was last minute but she thought maybe I could do it since I was already going to be in the classroom (for a makeup P/T conference). I quickly agreed because I like helping out—and I could bring Katie. 🙂 She said she’d let me know what the project was when I got there.

Hoo boy, LOL.

It wasn’t just a CLASS project, but a GRADE project. An ART project. Where I had to paint everyone’s hands to make the stripes on a flag. And stick their name stickers on as well. So, around 100 kids 2-10 at a time in a hallway…ON MY KNEES the whole time.

I gave up control of hand placement on about the fourth red hand, LOL.

I had on the wrong clothes—a tank with a swingy top which kept flapping about getting close to the paint (washable, of course, but still…I’d have worn something different if I knew I’d be painting).

I had the wrong hair—I wore it down, but with all the moving around and kids and close quarters and paint…I would have worn it up.

And my knees. My poor, old, broken knees. I can barely deal with kneeling for five minutes, let alone an hour. I wouldn’t have said no even if I knew, so it doesn’t really matter…I’m just lamenting my old knees and how I took some strong drugs and am currently writing this entry sitting with my feet up because it hurts to walk. 🙂

It was fun overall (though a bit messy and chaotic), some kids recognized me as Owen’s mom, the teachers really appreciated me being there, it turned out cute, and I was too busy to worry about Katie but Mrs. Talley said she was just fine…and I walked in after to see Katie just sitting with the kids (not even with Owee!) watching the math lesson. 🙂

  

First 1st grade P/T conference

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On the way in, we stopped to see Owen’s Hero submission for Veteran’s Day in the main hallway:

  

Overall, Owen is doing great!

He’s ahead in reading—she said she’s had to keep moving him up levels! He’s currently on Level 8 (levels are much different than back in our day) and needs to be at Level 16 by the end of the year…which his teacher said she wasn’t worried about at all. 

He’s doing well in math—he got 13/14 on a recent makeup test from the week he missed (but she didn’t give him any instruction like the rest of the class had). And the question he got wrong he just didn’t pay close attention to the instructions because he was likely going too fast (it was 4 + 2 = ___ + 3 and he wrote 6).

He’s also doing well in social studies, science, and writing—and I got to quickly look at his journals. 

He uses his time well (an improvement from kindergarten) and behaves in class. 

His teacher said he had no major areas that needed improvement (yay!)—just basic (expected) things like using upper/lower case consistently and correctly, spacing between words when writing, etc…all stuff we know and are working on. 

And we got a list of questions we need to ask when he does his daily reading to help prepare him for the state testing at the end of the year (like Who was the main character? What happened first?) as well as more critical thinking like this:

 

They are both so sweet.

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So we’re watching Inside Out and some scene comes on where the characters are crying.

Katie: What’s he doing?
Tom: He’s crying. It’s good to cry. It’s how we deal with things.
Owen: Like when Grandma Marsha died.
Tom and I look at each other and get teary.
Me: Exactly.
Owen: And we won’t forget her…
Katie: Because she’s always in our heart.
Tom and I look at each other again and just about lose it. The kids weren’t phased at all and just went back to watching the movie.

I’m glad the things I’ve said to them have sunk in, even if Katie doesn’t specifically understand yet.