The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Kindergarten

We had a fun surprise on our mailbox this week! Samantha’s globe welcoming her to Kindergarten arrived!! Unfortunately, her in-person orientation at kindergarten got cancelled but we are hoping they do something special in the fall to welcome them to school.

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She was pretty excited to get it and she’s VERY excited to start Kindergarten and finally be at the big school with her brothers!! This girl is ready!

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Maxwell’s globe and Kindergarten orientation here.

Spencer’s globe Kindergarten orientation here.

I’m so excited for this girl to head to the big school and thrive!! Kindergarten, here she comes!

School’s out!

Well, they made the call on Friday and cancelled school for the rest of the year. It’s not totally cancelled – we’re moving to E-learning as of Monday April 6. It’s not ideal but I’m so glad we have that option. We were able to pick up the boys’ chrome books last week which will make it all a lot easier. I’m sad for all that we are going to miss – sports, preschool graduation, dance recital, field day, Kindergarten orientation, and the list goes on. I’m sad that my kids are missing their friends and the social interaction they love and need. But, I’m so glad this is happening in spring instead of at the beginning of the school year. I’m so glad that they are of the age where they will easily catch up on anything they miss. They are of the age where they still think it’s fun to hang with their parents (most of the time!) and love to play with each other. They are of the age where I can still understand their math work! ha! We’re going to make the best of it and hopefully look back on this crazy time as fun and exciting. I keep telling kids they are living through history in the making!!

I wish I had known that Friday 3/13 (Friday the 13th!!) would be the boys last day of school. I would have taken a picture or something?! I do have a few pics from school left…

Samantha celebrated 100 days of school on 3/10. Little did we know she’d only go to school 102 days! They made cool crowns, took 100 of a snack (she took Teddy Grahams), and had a pizza party!

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Other fun art from school…

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I wonder if these are the same 3 things she’d take into quarantine with her?! 🙂

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Spencer got to go to a bowling birthday party with the boys in his class the last week of school. What a fun crew!

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Spencer’s class also got a treat when they had their writer’s celebration!

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We sure will miss our teachers and school friends but will make the best of school at home!

Home

Well, there are worse places to be stuck for the next 3 weeks than at home! School is cancelled and we’re practicing “social distancing” to keep ourselves and others healthy. The kids were supposed to have eDay work for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week but, after there were several confirmed cases right in our community, they just cancelled it all until April 6th. The kids are excited about no school but not super excited about spending the next 3 weeks in isolation! I’m trying to make it fun…we’ve played Spot It and Uno…

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I learned how to play Four Square with them…

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We did a painting project…

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We made brownies…

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(clearly if one of us has Corona we’re all doomed! ha!)

We also went for a walk. It was a beautiful day!

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Yep, we’ve been busy…too bad all of that was done before 3:00 on day 1! It’s gonna be a long 3 weeks…

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but we can do it!

Doughnuts with Dad

Last week Robert got to go up to the preschool for his very last Doughnuts with Dad! My favorite dimpled duo looking super cute…

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Samantha was excited!

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Really excited!  🙂

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Robert said they had fun and we all got a kick out of Samantha’s very accurate answers about him!

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Then the sugar kicked in and the ladies were living it up!

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Love these two.

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The end of an era – so long preschool traditions!

All Doughnuts with Dad posts here!

School stuff

Just some pics from school…

PJ Day for Samantha…

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This crew has fun every day!

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Spencer’s teacher is pretty good about sharing class pics – even if they do all have this strange filter! ha!

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I got to go up for the grandparent event last month and make this cool graphic S with Maxwell!

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And then he got to leave school last week to go watch the Spartans play in the semi-finals for the state championship! So fun! and I’m so thankful Patton’s mom was up for taking a crew of boys!!

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School days! School days!