Last week, mommy picked up Mimi as usual from school.  She was pretty quiet in the back seat.  Mommy was trying to chat with her but she didn't seem interested. "How is school?" asked mommy. "Ok...

This morning, Mommy took Mimi to school because she had so many things to carry -- her lunch box, clarinet, book case, and her poster on Blyde River Canyon.   Mimi was very proud to display her poster...

Monday night, mommy went to Mimi's school for an open house event at her school.  Parents get to follow their children from classroom to classroom and meet with teacher and other students.   Mommy has...

 This is Mimi's science homework.  They are learning on how to establish inferences from observations.  Her assignment is to cut off photos from megazines.  She needs to establish observations and dra...

One of the projects that Jordan has is to research a landform.  Jordan needs to pick a landform she is interested in for her research.  She has a choice to either do a poster or a travel booklet.   Af...

As many of you know, Mimi has been playing clarinet for the last 3 years.  This summer, she really worked on enhancing her clarinet skills and has been working with Alex on a private lesson.  Her flue...

Thursday morning, mommy saw an email from the school district that announced a school close for the day.  Rain had been pouring for the last 24 hours from Tropical Storm Lee traveled through Ithaca an...

Today is the first day of school.  Like most of the uprising 6th graders, ours was excited yet anxious with the new beginning of her middle school.   As most of you know, she had a little "accident" l...

This is one of the peel writing evaluation that Mimi did last October.  Mimi picked this subject and ran with her story.  I want to share her writing here.  Since there is no editing, you probably wil...