Amelia was helping with (being ordered around by) Margaret and her friend Sarah. They wanted her to push them in the swings over and over and she was getting frustrated. I told her to just ignore them and they’d be fine. She looked at me and very seriously said “I can’t believe you had three kids and are still alive”.
Amelia was telling me how some kids she knows are starting to act older than they are. She said “I want to get older and grow up but I just want to live every one of my years”.
Spring break was a success this year, thanks to outings with the White family, a couple days in Effingham, and some sunshine from time to time. Here are a few of our adventures:
A trip to Gus’ Pretzels after running another mile for Read, Right, and Run
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A morning at Shaw Nature Reserve with the White’s (Jessica took amazing pictures as usual!)
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We went to see Cinderella, the second time for the kids
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And a trip to the Magic House with Maggie building,
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Amelia’s electrified hair,
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and Will in a bubble.
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Now 7 more weeks until summer vacation…
The art teacher at Mark Twain impresses us year after year with her annual Art Fair. She takes wonderful photographs of every student, conducts an interview, and displays all of this with their art. Here’s what Amelia and Will’s displays looked like this year.
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Amelia’s favorite art project was the pig looking out the window.
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Will’s favorite art project was the Eiffel Tower in the bottom left.
2015 marks the first year of science fair project opportunities for the Spencer family, and I mean family! Amelia was enthusiastic when we came up with a project using our much loved hens. We decided to see if we could train the chickens to choose a blue cup over a yellow cup using meal worms as a reward. Amelia enjoyed the experiment phase which included lots of time moving and timing the chickens. The enthusiasm started to disappear when it came to completing her log book and poster. There were a couple late nights for all of us. At one point Dave showed Amelia one of his posters. She was very impressed saying “that looks like it’s from the internet. Wait, where are your references? How do I know you didn’t just copy that from the internet?!” Ah, she’s a smart one, and as one of Dave’s colleagues said, there were science teachers everywhere smiling when she said that.
Here is the final product. Amelia went to bed as I was gluing the final pieces so when she saw it the next morning she said, “Wow! That looks great, like a couple sixth graders did it.” We are taking that as a compliment.
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