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| Alexander made another game |
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| Monster camp attack |
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| Andrew is getting really good at riding around our first floor without training wheels. |
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| Big doings out back |
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| BLT eggs |
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| Cool moon |
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| Cucumber smile |
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| End of summer and back to school English session |
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| Break time |
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| Ghost festival here so lots of people burning things |
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| Popsicles are the preferred way to study the solid state of matter |
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| Grassy hill archery |
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| I like how you can just see the city in the distance |
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| History project: What do you think about the proverb: If your sword is too short take a step forward? Aaron's answer above |
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| Andrew's adaptation |
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| Alexander's interpretation |
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| "I was just walking to the bathroom and the bed ended up like that." Life with boys, walking to the bathroom= running, jumping, and rolling, and possibly attacking an invisible army on the way. |
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| It's a good day when coffee gets delivered |
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| We finally had our Ivanhoe book club party |
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| Target cake in honor of own of the first books to clearly present the familiar Robin hood tales. |
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| Nate made this bow and arrow and took the kids out to the grassy hill to do most of the games, but we had some inside as well. |
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| He looks fierce! |
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| Abigail get in on the action too. Although she spent most of the time sniffing the feathered "arrow" I made for the cake and calling it a flower. Girls and boys sure are different. Girls turn weapons into flowers and accessories. Boys turn flowers and accessories into weapons. |
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| New piano getting lots of use |
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| Little park fun |
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| Power outage fun |
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| Glow sticks |
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| And shadow fight |
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| Programming lesson |
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| Reading Kingdom's edge at night |
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| Science experiment |
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| Seeing three states of matter at once |
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| Two little piggies went to market, we'll spare you the rest... |
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| Abigail is such a funny little mommy |
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| All these stuffies got in trouble and she lined them up for discipline. Also, she is so like Aaron in that she loves to line things up on these couple of steps. |
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| One more book fun experience this week. Watching the Sugar Creek Gang Swamp Robber after reading the book and comparing the two. Below are the boys observations. Alexander's Report
Same
the daddy got druk
there was circus
and bill colins
different
Charlotte ann was a baby
little jim was there
bill collins picked flowers
liked
one time poetry was as fat as a barrel
big jim had a rusty cup
they slept in a tent
Andrew's Report
same:
poetry steals bill's and dragonfly's colthes
bill catches big worms
the robber had dark hair
diffent:
CIRCUS WAS NOT A GIRL!!
charlot ann was a baby
big jim had a mustash
liked:
"how are we sopoust to get our colthes back?" PLUNK!
old man padlers story
barry boyland had a gun beceause he had heard that ther were bears in the swamp
Aaron's Report:
Same:
1.They find Old Man Paddler in his cabin, and his story’s the same.
2.Barry Boyland’s story was the same, with the gun, the story about the bears and the treasure.
3.They caught the robber in almost the same way.
Different:
1. Circus is not a girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. It was Poetry that did the ghost trick.
3.They were not actively trying to hide what they did from their parents.
Liked:
1.This may sound silly, but I liked everything except that circus was a girl and they were trying to hide what they did from their parents.
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