Kid Creations

My daughter, Chee, is in first grade. She is a hoarder and has about 50 billion pieces of paper in her room. I try to clean but the paper increases daily. The fact that I found these notes in her backpack before they were thrown into her closet is pretty special to me. I love [...]

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Each child gets chosen as the star of the week over the course of the school year. Last week Chee received the “Star of the Week Poster” to fill out and turn back in on Monday. It said to let the kid draw, write, color, and do it all themselves. Then it went on to [...]

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I think it’s strange that this schoolwork made me proud. While we were at Parent-Teacher conferences I saw this hanging up on the wall that the boy had done as classwork. I asked her if she had helped him to know that 4/$5 means $1.25 times 4 and she said that she did not. He’s [...]

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Mario Cheats The boy is in third grade. Lately he’s been making books – either comic books, fiction books, game guide books, etc. I will have to show some of the better ones later…today it’s one of the more, um, interesting ones. He and one of his classmates have been working on his latest book [...]

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First Grade Writing, take two. The other day we played a game where we guessed which liquids Chee was thinking about when filling out her paperwork at school. Today we have solids. I was sad to see just three options, but I really love the three that we have here. I feel the pictures give the [...]

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Chee is in 1st grade and they’re working on them “sounding it out” and not really working on how to spell yet. I think it’s more about first grade phonics, which is great and all – but I wanted to share with you her classwork about Liquids. Heck, knowing that the category is liquids – [...]

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