Family Home Evening

For FHE tonight we wrote letters to my brother, Brian, who is in boot camp & my grandma, who is very lonely. We also made Halloween invites for a little Halloween pizza party my kids are having with a couple of their friends. Then I had them read through a little play I wrote for my preschool drama class to see how long it is. It was a fun night. Although I almost cried when Caleb was writing his letters and asked if he could mark the phonograms. I sooo do not want to move. He informed me that the word Halloween contains two phonograms and rule # 17. I asked the kids what they would think if they went to a school that didn't teach Spalding. Alyssa said, "All that learning would go to waste." She was being silly, but it's so true. Nina said she'd never be able to do spelling with out Spaulding and Caleb was basically blank. He started Kindergarten at Renaissance, so although he knew how to read before Kindergarten, his only formal schooling has been with Spaulding. There are so many things I would miss about our school... Spaulding, spanish, music, art, all the programs, the people, the family involvement. It's so silly that such a little thing as watching my kids write could make me so sad.

Here they are working hard on their letters.

Alyssa is about the biggest goof-ball you'll ever meet. Her letter to Brian went something like this: How's the food? I like food. Food is good for you. How's the weather? I like weather. Weather is good for you. How's the peoples? I like peoples. Peoples is good for you. How's school? Do you go to school? I don't really care. How's school? Love, your weird niece, Alyssa.

The funny thing is, she's a 110%, straight A, reading and spelling on a 6th grade level, every teacher's ultimate favorite of all times student. She's just a dork at home... LOL

Here are the finished invites. The kids dressed them up.

We put them in a cellophane bag with a candy corn flavored Hershey's kiss to give to their friends. They had a lot of fun making these.