Categories June 2011

More About Our Amazing Sarah

Here is the transcript of the headmaster's remarks at Sarah's school yesterday when she won her wonderful award. ***** We begin this segment of our program with the presentation of a very special award… In a school full of exceptionally…

Congratulations, Sarah!

I got the following email from Aunt Liz today: Sarah won the character award this morning. It is one student and the ultimate honor for the middle school. The remarks that the headmaster made about her were so extraordinary. He…

Categories June 2011

The Weekend By The Numbers

It really felt like summer this weekend. We did a lot of fun stuff outside, which is the focus of this week's By The Numbers. Items planted in the backyard: 3 window boxes of impatiens (bye bye pansies), basil, sage,…

A the Journalist

We got a newsletter today from A's first grade class. This time, the kids wrote all of the articles. Here is the one that A wrote: Learning About Mexican AztecsBy Alexa F and Agnes BMrs. Baldwin’s class studied the Aztecs…

Cuties

After work tonight, I took the girls to Broad Branch Market for ice cream. We ran into Emily on the way to the market, and asked her to join us. Here they all are on the way home — how…

Categories June 2011

Harriet the Spies

Last night after I got home and the girls finished their homework, I took them out for YogiBerry. Beforehand, I gave them each a little notebook that I picked up at BEA. They each decided to start a diary/journal, a…