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Christmas break officially begins today! Brent and Callie won't be returning to school until January 12. They will still be doing a little reading & writing during their time off. If we don't at least do that, restarting is very difficult.
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Brent got some new pj's too!
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Callie had her Christmas Program last night. She had a wonderful time. She has been wearing these pj's all the time. Between the rehearsal and the performance we went to lunch at the China Buffet and she wore them there too.
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Callie and the rest of her friends had a great time decorating cupcakes at the Christmas sleepover last night. It was a late night and really cold. Most of them didn't actually eat their creations, but they enjoyed making a mess. They also exchanged gifts. We slept on the carpeted area of the hut, but it was still chilly.
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Brent is listening to coach Manny.
I was unable to go to this tournament, since I had the sleepover and the Christmas performance, but JT said Brent did well and had a good time. The tournament was in El Paso with a weigh in on the previous day.
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Callie is healthy again, so back to school for her. No more days filled with books and Christmas movies. Well actually, vacation starts on Saturday, and she will probably fill it with books and Christmas movies.
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Callie woke up under the weather today and promptly asked for tissues and homemade chicken noodle soup. The tissue and soup has been delivered and she hasn't come out of her room all day. She has been reading though. This is one of her favorite pastimes. When she is sick, it is always hard to tell when she is feeling better, since she would never complain about lying there reading a book.
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Brent started a new journal today. We use the composition notebooks. He double spaces and has to write in complete sentences, but he can write about anything. After he has finished a page, we go over it together, looking at spelling and
grammar. Each journal is a record of his growth as a writer and it is truly amazing to see the first entry compared to the last.
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Brent and Callie recently ordered two magazines that we will be using for school. Muse is for Callie and is a magazine on Art, Social Studies & Science. Ask is for Brent and it focuses on a single topic each month. The first one was on dinosaurs. Both magazines have a regular contest with an art and writing assignment that the kids will be doing as part of their school work.
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James Bond (the kitten) has given me the signal to take the night off.
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We took a week off for the Thanksgiving Holiday; we take our turkey seriously here. We returned to work yesterday, but somehow today felt like the first day back. It can be hard to return to routines. So many lessons to complete before we get to the next holiday! Callie is breezing through the first few lessons on sentences. It will get much more difficult in the weeks ahead. Brent is also doing sentences and isn't finding all the
grammar that difficult. Lucky him.
Callie woke up under the weather today and promptly asked for tissues and homemade chicken noodle soup. The tissue and soup has been delivered and she hasn't come out of her room all day. She has been reading though. This is one of her favorite pastimes. When she is sick, it is always hard to tell when she is feeling better, since she would never complain about lying there reading a book.
Brent started a new journal today. We use the composition notebooks. He double spaces and has to write in complete sentences, but he can write about anything. After he has finished a page, we go over it together, looking at spelling and grammar. Each journal is a record of his growth as a writer and it is truly amazing to see the first entry compared to the last.
