by Julie | Nov 6, 2008
Yeah, so what exactly am I supposed to do about this, if anything? Doesn’t this seem a little, oh, I don’t know, 1963? And do the teachers see any irony in the fact that they had the kids do this on the same day our country elected the first African...
by Julie | Oct 31, 2008
Eli and Henry are planning on being spiders today, despite Eli’s earnest insistence for the last week or so that he’s going to be a cannonball. (He’s a cannonball every day, regardless.) This past weekend we carved up some jack-o-lanterns. First they...
by Julie | Oct 24, 2008
Dinner table conversation last night: Julie: Henry, how was gym today? Henry: Good. We all caught the balls AT ONCE! Julie: Who threw the balls? Henry: All of us! And if you caught the ball, you could throw it, but if you got hit with it, you had to go to JAIL. And...
by Julie | Oct 23, 2008
We had our first parent/teacher conference Tuesday night (what’s the proper punctuation there? parent-teacher? parent:teacher? parent:teacher::muffin:bagel?). It was fairly nerve-wracking. The conclusion (not that this is a huge surprise) is that Henry is very...
by Julie | Oct 16, 2008
Apparently when it’s raining out, instead of going out for recess, the kindergartners watch a video. At least today they did. Which is crazy. Recess is the exact opposite of watching a video. Isn’t that what the gym is for? Heaven help me if this is what...
by Julie | Oct 13, 2008
Yes, well, Columbus Day, whatever that means these days. Henry asked what it meant, and I of course gave him the ultra-P.C. explanation. For some reason I felt the need to refer to Christopher Columbus as Cristoforo Columbo (is this even his name, or just my...
