Cabbage!

Remember Sadie's cabbage plant she brought home from school last spring? Well, today we picked her cabbage.

It weighed in at 3 lb. 4 oz.

It's a pretty nice cabbage. It probably could have gotten much larger, but we were afraid it might split. She has certainly enjoyed watching it grow.

Last Day!!

last day of third grade--May, 2009

first day of third grade--August, 2008

Today was the last day of school. We attended the elementary awards assembly this morning. Sadie was recognized for a number of things, the most significant one: Outstanding Third Grader. She shares this with another girl in her class. We are so proud of Sadie and all of the hard work she put into this year.

I always take Sadie's picture on the first and last day of school. (She still humors me, we'll see how that goes in a few years.)

Sadie's Art

Sadie's ceiling tile with her winning artwork

Freddy the Cabbage

Remember back in March when Sadie brought home her cabbage plant? We said we'd do weekly updates? The weekly updates didn't happen, so how about just an update?

Freddy is surviving and thriving. We decided today was as good a day as any to transplant him into his new home in the garden.

The boys and I had fun checking to see if the potatoes were up (some are). We also had fun looking for volunteer squash and popcorn. The plan is to hopefully plant the seeds in the garden this week--but you know how plans go around here.

Hello, Third Grade!

Sadie started third grade today. All went well and she was very excited when she got off of the bus this afternoon. She reports that the best part of the day was recess when they got to swing from the "vines" hanging from the trees. Apparently some of the smaller branches hang down at just the right height to really swing on them. Sadie also seemed pleased that they have moved over to the "big kid" playground.

Another highlight of the day was being "Pirate of the Day." She gets to be it again tomorrow since they didn't have time to do much work today. The theme for the third grade class is pirates--the whole elementary has a fantasy theme. Way cool stuff in the third grade classroom. We are looking forward to a fun challenging year.