Charlie - School & Fun!

By -

Charlie is loving fifth grade!
Here he is in his upper school chap uniform with a real tie that has to be tied!

First time serving as an acolyte this year.

He doesn't look thrilled, but he does enjoy being in Tomorrow's Promise choir at church. 

While Aaron adn SG were camping, Charlie and I had a great time going to the Smyrna Birthday Celebration with Lovie and Pops! Charlie's education in 90's music continued with performances by The Wallflowers and The GooGoo Dolls! 



The concert was fantastic!

The fireworks after were great too!

For spirit week they had a day to wear a shirt for their house. It really only needed to be the color for their house, but Charlie had visions of a shirt with the crest for his. We worked hard and found designs that matched the crest and put it all together! It was a fun project to do with him!
The houses are similar to Harry Potter where students were sorted into their house, stay with that house throughout their time in upper school, houses earn points, and the house with the most points at the end of the year wins an extra field trip!

Hat day during spirit week!

Charlie just adores his homeroom teacher, Ms. Whipple! She is very kind and does a great job sharing pictures of what they work on in school. 


Science definitely steps up in fifth grade and they learn about lab safety and do experiments!



I am so happy that he is really enjoying this year! He is challenged, has fun, and has a great group of friends to do it with!



 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Frozen Party Details

By -
Image
Like most girls her age, Sarah Graves LOVES Frozen and has known for quite some time that she wanted a Frozen birthday party. I was so excited when I saw this invitation on Etsy and she loved it too! It reminded me of an infographic. The Frozen theme was a lot of fun! There were so many things to choose from that I took to pinterest and eventually decided on the ideas that I would use for this party. I found this great Arendelle banner here on Pinterest I was so grateful that my sister did a snowflake Christmas and had tons of snowflake ornaments to hang as decorations! This party theme was a lot of fun to plan the food. Kristoff's ice cubes were made from Jell-o with an ombre effect. I found the recipe here on Pinterest. I doubled the recipe to make a 13x9 size pan of it and I made 2 13x9 pans of it. The made plenty of "ice cubes" to fill 35 cups. They turned out really cute! My parents made this Elsa cake and did a fabulous job
Read more

Cloth vs. Disposable

By -
We have mostly been planning to do disposable diapers because I felt that cloth would just be too much work when I go back to work.  Then, we saw these diapers called happy heiny's ( www.happyheinys.com ).  These looked much different than what I envisioned cloth diapers to look like.  Mom used cloth diapers with me and Jeanne', so she felt totally up for using them while Sarah Graves is at her house.  I started looking into the cost comparison and depending on what type of cloth diapers you buy, you can save anywhere from $1200 - $1700.  That is pretty attractive, not to mention knowing that you aren't filling up a landfill somewhere.  There are lots of different varieties of cloth diapers out there, but the ones that seem to be a good investment and user friendly are diapers that have snap closures, with a pocket for an insert to absorb the contents, and they are one size that adjusts as your baby grows from a newborn up to 35 pounds.  You can also purchase the traditio
Read more