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One of Emma's assignments today was to make puppets and perform a puppet show for her family. Olivia had another meeting with her class this morning. She is always super excited to see her teachers and friends. As soon as the girls woke up they asked if they
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Distance learning went pretty smooth today. The girls celebrated a successful morning with a lunch tea party. It was sunny today, but really windy. It ended up making it pretty chilly outside, but you never could tell by the outfits they were wearing. Turns out it wasn't too
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Emma was jammin' to a video she had to watch about short o sounds. To be fair... she's had to watch this video a couple times for the other vowels and it's pretty catchy. I sing along. 😂 Our lady bugs and caterpillars are getting huge.
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Today was a teacher learning day, so Emma didn't have any distance learning assignments. I didn't think we'd be doing anything outside since the forecast said it was going to rain most of the day. Turns out the forecast was completely wrong. We made
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Someone was very happy this morning after a visit from the tooth fairy! This week has been a rough one for distance learning. Luckily there is no school tomorrow. It was another warm day, and it was sunny. Emma decided it was perfect weather for sunbathing on the deck. I
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Happy Earth Day! Emma had a couple Earth Day related assignments. One of them was a scavenger hunt in the yard. While she was at it she cleaned up some trash in the backyard. Some exciting news at our house....! Emma lost her first tooth. She's wanted to
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Lots of writing going on today. Emma's teacher told her that at their house their family takes turn making dinner each night. Emma thought that was a great idea and wanted to do that at our house. Of course Emma picked herself to go first. I think the
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This week we got our cup of caterpillars. 1st graders started learning about insects, so I also ordered ladybugs and ants. One of Emma's assignments today was to make a size comparison between an insect and an item around the house. She used our caterpillars and a Barbie
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For art today Emma had to build a paper city. She called this one "Bridge City". Olivia had another meeting with her class. This week was a camping theme. All the kids had to find something around the house that they would take camping. Olivia chose a marshmallow.
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Today was a rough one. We powered through it, but it wasn't easy. Last night Emma completed reading her 300th book. Over the last couple weeks 1st graders learned about 6 different penguins. This week they had to pick one of the penguins they learned about and build