Tag: school
Scholastic Children’s Dictionary Back To School Blog Tour – With $100 GC Giveaway
My son loves trains so it seems sort of fitting that I am the final stop on the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary Back To School Blog Tour. I’m the caboose! Choo choo! Are you familiar with the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary? With exciting features, accessible definitions and helpful illustrations and photographs throughout, the new Scholastic Children’s Dictionary [...]
Box Tops For Education – Help Your Child’s School Just By Shopping – With B&N Giveaway
There may be some of you that are not quite finished giving Christmas gifts yet, for one reason or another. Maybe you’re waiting for payday to come so you can do some online shopping before you see that friend you don’t see very often. Maybe you’re waiting for a loved one to return home. Maybe [...]
Just In Time For School, Locks That Let You Lock It Up Your Way – Master Lock Sweepstakes Info Too
I stopped in the store yesterday and found that school supplies are for sale on the floor. There were some good prices but I can’t shop yet because I don’t have the list of supplies that TJ will need this year. It really aggravates me the school thinks it’s acceptable to not give us a [...]
Tiny Prints Graduation giveaway
Spring is finally here. TJ’s basketball season is over and the track season has begun. We’ve already gotten a flyer for one of our town’s summer sports programs. Before we know it children will be getting ready for graduation. TJ’s best friend is graduating this year yet it feels like only yesterday they were six [...]
I need a Dymo on my desk
Things in my house can get a little crazy and occasionally even become unorganized. Once the school year starts it gets even worse. I don’t remember my first day of school (presumably because I was four then and I’m old now) but I know that each year the first week TJ is back to school [...]
On the first day of school
As a young child, I used to cry when a bus went by our house in the morning because I really wanted to go to school. I started going to school at the age of 4 and enjoyed it for years to come. It was a private school and we wore uniforms, so there was [...]
Alicia’s law passed
I want to Share Some Good Stuff this week pertaining to graduations. For the last few weeks around the country schools have held their graduations. As covered in the Daily Record, recently Governor Corzine( of NJ, where I live) passed Alicia’s Law (S.442), making it effective immediately. Alicia’s Law, for those unfamiliar, states that special [...]
Oops, I forgot the presents
Tomorrow is the last day of school. It’s now going on 11 pm and I’ve just realized that I don’t have gifts for my son’s teachers, therapists and aide. I intended to run out earlier when I dropped TJ at Scouts but had a change in plans and it completely slipped my mind. I have [...]
Spring break is underway
Well, as of this past Friday afternoon my two sons were officially on spring break. They don’t have school for the next week. Lucky devils! Unfortunately for them, we still have to work, so they can’t just lay in bed all morning. They can sleep a little later though. My oldest wanted to know why [...]
Snow day
Well as it turns out my older son didn’t need to worry about missing school and not having perfect attendance. It snowed during the night, not blizzard snow but enough to make things messy for us. When I left here at 5:30am to go to work the roads hadn’t been plowed, sanded or salted and [...]
School attendance
My older son is sick. He developed a cough on Monday after his well visit. He tried to blame the cough on his booster shot. Nice try bud. Tonight I took him back to the doc to find out that he has bronchitis and the flu. One of his prescriptions is a huge horse pill [...]
How do you feel about fundraisers?
Tell the truth. Do you cringe when someone asks you to buy something from a school fundraiser? I often do, and here’s why. I don’t want to spend my hard earned money on over priced food or gift wrap. I’d rather buy things that support and promote the organization I’m being asked to help support. [...]
Loving the new schcool attitude
My eleven year old has never loved school. He’s a very bright child who often doesn’t work to his potential. He’s in sixth grade this year. As I mentioned less than two weeks ago, progress reports came home and his wasn’t too bad. He has seemed to take more of an interest this year. Now [...]
How will we pay for college?
First semester progress reports came home this week. My older son didn’t do that badly but it was not his best. He has an 89.4 average in science and an 89.0 average in math. He has now learned how averages work – how a 70 will pull down the 93, 95 and 100s that he [...]
Long first day
Today my oldest son started middle school. He got up at 5:30 am. When he came home I asked him about his first day. His first answer was “long”. I got to hear all about his day before I began my homework – filling out and signing more stuff. He forgot his lunch money at [...]
