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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
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We're supposed to get 4" to 6" of snow tomorrow. Luckily today was sunny and warm. Emma has been wanting a swing at the barn. Today she got one. It's going to be cold all week, so we probably won't be making
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Week #2 is done! Today Emma would have had tropical day at school. Even though they aren't going to school they still asked for everyone to dress up and send in their pictures. Emma's teacher plays this birthday song every time one of the kids in
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I got creative with Emma's BB shooting range today. Olivia put on Emma's shirt, asked me to tie the sleeves around her neck, turned around to look at me, struck a pose and said "fashion!". 🤦🏼♀️ We then proceeded to have an outdoor photoshoot. Emma
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Yesterday we didn't leave the bus because of the snow and the cold. Today we spent most of the day outside. Tomorrow is supposed to be even nicer. The guy who owned the place before us just put junk everywhere. A pile of wood here. A pile of
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We did it! Our first week of distance learning is behind us. Last night we came to the bus for a couple days because it was going to rain/snow/hail today, so today we did schoolwork at the bus. The last couple forecasts haven't been very accurate.
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Today wasn't as good as yesterday, but we got through it. Only 1 more day to go this week! Emma had an assignment to find 3 things heavier than a pencil. She had fun weighing different things with the kitchen scale. For music, she made a guitar with
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Today Olivia really got to get in on the distance learning action. It was letter O day. After all our learning was done for the day we took a family walk at a nearby park. Braden had to get home to get back to work, so Emma, Olivia and I
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We started off the morning with... Uno! The girls definitely did not want to go home, but it was time. We were starting to run out of food and clothes on the bus. When we got home we had a lot of package, plus two bags of school activities from
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