Tonight my son’s homework assignment is to write the first draft of a mystery story. It’s to include dialogue, six of this week’s spelling words, and he’s to define character and setting. We’ve been going back and forth at the kitchen table for longer than you’d think it would take to write a page. My […]
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Writing Stories Together
Posted in Family, Having Fun, Motherhood, School, Writing on December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
School’s Out
Posted in Growing up, Motherhood, School on June 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
At 2:10 today, I become the parent of a 4th grader. The past few days he’s come home with his backpack stuffed with journals, pencils, markers, math books, homework sheets, art projects, science observation sheets, even a brand new dictionary. And he won an MP4 player at his after-school program, which only caused me to […]