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As I’d mentioned, my son, Mr. Brilliant, is in 4th grade. He left/was asked to leave his previous school because, although he was getting straight A’s, he was bored to tears and his teachers all...
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Mr. Brilliant got off to a rough start. Monday was his first day of school and he felt it awfully unfair of me to ask him to start school a day before his sister started school. My son feels the...
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Tuesdays, the day I talk about something that turned out terrific. Sonlight has a huge yearly reading list for the fourth grade. We’ve read ‘Moccasin Trail‘, ‘Plain Girl’, ‘Sing Down the Moon’, and...
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Mr. Brilliant is still fighting me tooth and nail. He wants to be parked in front of a computer 24/7/365. Everything thing, and I do mean everything, with the exception of computer time and TV time,...
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Science – Shapes in Nature – Square, Circle, Spiral, Triangles, Stars, Pentagon, Hexagon. After finding them in nature we found them in the man-made world. We discussed form and function. –...
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Science – Continue work on Landscape box -Plants of South Carolina Grammar: Suffixes – Subjects and Predicates -Compound Predicates – Compound Subjects – Combining Sentences Vocabulary –...
View ArticleIt’s Thursday. It’s Flooding.
Common here in Chucktown, a heavy rain to start the morning, with wellies required to walk around downtown. Miss Bliss has to wade to class, her school often being an island when there is a downpour....
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Vocabulary: frigate, necessity, patience, dilemma, obliged, exasperated, amble(d), lunatic, jostling, hospitality, undertaker, imposter, courteous, awesome, extractor, elated, petrified, peer(ing),...
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