11-10-13

Giving Kenzie her presents

Kisses:)

This evening we surprised Kenzie and went to her house to celebrate her birthday (which is tomorrow)!! We made her a cake and the boys decorated cards for her. 

HAPPY 16th Birthday Kenzie!!!

11-9-13

This afternoon Adam's cub scouts group met at Pine Haven Recreation Area to do some hiking. They hiked it quickly and the boys had a lot of fun. After the group had left Jared called me and asked if we wanted to come there and hike it again with them. Adam was excited to take us on the hike. We took our time hiking around the loop and really enjoyed it. It's such a beautiful hike! The weather was really nice too (low 50's).

11-8-13

Nana and Papa's helpers

Peyton bumped her head on the corner of the wall

 Isaac helping with the ice

3D

11-7-13

The boys have been wanted to be parent pick up (rather that riding the bus) so I did that today.  It was a half day and they were out around 11:30.  They were very excited about being picked up. This afternoon we had Parent/Teacher conferences. They went fine but we were exhausting after they were done. Adam teacher says that he is doing well in math. He is struggling in reading, lacking confidence and giving up quickly. She said he may qualify for their Title 1 program. He knows his sight words well and does good on his spelling tests. She also mentioned that he is easily distracted. He is well behaved in class. We had about 1 1/2 hr wait until Jacob's conference so we walked around at the Book fair. Then we took the boys outside to play on the playground for awhile. Our conference for Jacob was with Mr Henderson and Mr Goff (Special Ed. teacher). Mr Goff started off by showing us a paper that Jacob wrote during his class. Jacob had 15 minutes to write and only wrote a couple sentences whereas the other kids (in the Special Ed class) wrote much more. He seems to be getting distracted and/or fatigued during writing. Mr Henderson also showed us a paper that Jacob had a hour to write which was about a half page. He did mention that Jacob has been writing more this week though he hasn't reviewed that work yet. Jacob's desk is very unorganized and he often loses things. He will lose a pencil and wait 10 min before saying something about it. He usually forgets to write his name on his papers but Mr Henderson is too concerned about that. They also discussed some things about Jacob's reading comprehension which he is struggling with. Since we just had an IEP meeting Mr Goff didn't have a updated progress report but we will be getting one from him in about a month. Mr Henderson and Mr Goff both agreed that they would take a whole classroom full of Jacob's. He is very respectful, polite and works hard. The boys brought their money and wanted to buy something at the book fair so we went back to do that before leaving.

11-6-13

Jacob built a boat using his fire house set.

Silly boy

Eli is wearing Daddy's soccer shirt:)

Jacob wanted to show me what they learned about gravity in Science. We did measurement standing up and laying down to see how the forces of gravity actually make us shorter. Jacob said, "Isn't gravity cool!" This is the paper he wrote about it in class.

(When you stand up the force is pushing down on you so you get shorter.  When you lay down you get taller because the force is spreading you out. We tested it on our classmates.)  

Jacob's writing are usually not very long (less than 1/2 page) but he was excited to tell me about his writing this week that is over 3 pages long! He said, "The paper I'm writing is about Grandma." :)