It's back to school time again! We're starting later than last year, but it still feels like the summer just whizzed by. Kate is...

Can you believe we now have two school kids? How did that happen? Getting both of them ready at the same time is going to be a bit cr...

Kate had an assignment to bring in a paper bag with 5-8 items representing her. She came up with the idea to have this sock puppet coming...

Moving is a big deal.  We haven't even begun the actual move yet, but Kate gets to move school districts.  She started her first day o...

I found this in Kate's papers. Love it! (She says "die" is a flower drooping in a vase.)

Our little girl is a great big second grader!  Here she is, all excited and ready to go on her first day. She's been wearing thi...

It's the last day of school! (Yes, our district got out pretty late. I think they added a week on because of the strike.) Last yea...

That last one says "A map of space."

Kate modifies her homework.

Kate made this cute little guy at school. I remember Mr. Seewer, my high school World Lit teacher, saying that he would like to receive G...

The teachers and school board finally reached an agreement and went back to work on Friday. We ended up missing eight days of school all to...

When we got home from the fair on Monday night, we had a message that the teachers had met for another vote and decided to strike after al...

... for our first first grader, on September first! There's nothing like that first day of Kindergarten. I'd say the excitement...

We're all done with Kindergarten! Here's Kate coming out of school on her last day, dragon costume flapping. (She's been wea...

It's the one hundredth day of school! I know when I was in school we never even knew when the hundredth day was, but this seems to be ...

Being a parent with a child in school is a new experience. There are all these things that I never had to think about before. It didn...

Kate brought this home from school. We are amused. (And yes, rather horrified by that apostrophe.)

Kate's been in school for two months now! I'm experiencing that odd duality, where it feels like she just started but also feels ...