Author: Elsa
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Obsessed with the planets
Monti has been obsessed with learning about space. She drew pictures of all the planets and taped them to the patio door. We went to the library so she could check out a book of every planet. At the park she had one of her friends play the sun while Dahlia was Saturn and she…
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What the heck is Bunco?
I was invited to sub in for one of the ladies in a neighborhood Bunco group. My first question was ….What is Bunco? It ends up just being a game of pure luck where you roll three dice trying to get a specific number. You get a Bunco or 21 points when all three of…
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WAT bulletin board
I was so done with promoting the walk-a-thon after working all weekend on the opening assembly but I had committed myself to also putting together a bulletin board. My goal was to keep it simple and get it done quickly. There was little overall plan for this project hence the multiple shades of light green…
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The Blues Brothers come to IVE
Joe and Gary did great at the assembly. The kids laughed and screamed at all the right moments. Best of all Joe really enjoyed being up on stage. I felt like I had dragged him into the show and I knew he was initially dreading the whole event so it really was important to me…
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Walk-a-thon t-shirt model
I needed a picture of a kid in their walk-a-thon t-shirt for my slide show. Dahlia is always there to be my model.
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Practicing for the assembly
To kick off the school walkathon they hold an assembly to pump up the students and to explain their role in the fundraiser process. We recruited Joe and another dad, Gary, to be our Blues Brothers. The opening act included singing “Sole Man”. The ‘sole’ spelling was our small tie in to anything doing with…
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Dahlia’s game
Instead of playing any of the many games they had at the coffee shop Dahlia created some game where chess pieces moved across the table on dominoes after you rolled dice. I never did get the underlying strategy behind her game but I think the object of the game was to let Dahlia win.