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School Days

Posted in Kids, Raves, School on September 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »

School has been back in session for almost two weeks. School supplies, homework, worksheets, etc. We spend at least an hour on this stuff every school day.
Oh wait, you probably think I’m talking about Book Boy, don’t you? Well, yes, third grade started on September 8, and he does have homework almost every single night [...]

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Am I the Only One?

Posted in Kids, Parenting, Raves, School on September 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »

As summer winds down and school starts up again (Book Boy starts Tuesday), I hear so many parents – especially moms – rejoicing. They’re happy to get the kids out of the house, happy to have them in school all day again, etc.
Am I the only one who doesn’t feel that way? I’m extremely sad [...]

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That’s My Boy!

Posted in Books, Kids, Parenting, Raves, Reading, School on April 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Book Boy’s class is taking a series of national assessment tests (NWEA) this week. They had the math assessment yesterday, and BB did quite well. Tomorrow is the reading assessment.
For some reason, he was chatting with his teacher about the tests, and she told him that she can usually tell how someone will do on [...]

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Give Me a Break

Posted in Kids, Memory Lane, Miscellaneous, Parenting, Rants, School on March 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Book Boy is on a school break. “Winter break,” they call it, to mark the switch from the second trimester to the third trimester. He had a half day today and is off Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday.
Then in April – less than one month – he has another week off, for spring break.
So that [...]

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