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Valentine making is now in full swing. Alex has decided on the heart-shaped snowflakes mounted on appropriate colors. Hannah is making Secret Message Valentines complete with Decoders. Here she's looking over her list of possible Secret Messages trying to select just the right one.

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Friday mornings around here mean Laundry Folding. Both Hannah and Alex have taken on the chore of washing the painting rags from their classrooms each week. I'm pleased that they both continue to follow through on their responsibilities this far into the school year. They bring them home, get them washed and dried the night before and all I need to do is bring them up from the dryer before I go to bed. A quick reminder when they wake up that it's waiting for them to be folded and they get themselves ready and downstairs to finish the job. Love that.

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Hannah's little ballet class. Her teacher's high school daughter comes once a week to give a 30 minute beginner's lesson to this small group of friends. It's nice she's able to try something new without the pressure and commitment that often comes with traditional dance lessons. She seems to enjoy it but rarely lets me see her doing her  new "moves!"

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Hannah's class had a hoe down tonight...lots of fun to watch these kids dance. They really know what they're doing! And even more fun to join in the dancing. What a fun class to be a part of...

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Hannah and Sean have chicken chores this week which means that at the end of the school day they need to round them up and put them back in the hen house for the night. Eight months in to our year with the chickens and she's still reluctant to hold them. Sean was sweet enough to hold this one for her and "make it look like' she's holding one!

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Busy day today... On the to-do list: cleaning out the chicken coop. Luckily I only had to supervise! Those third graders really did do the bulk of the work.

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Chicken chores this weekend. These ladies were hungry! Whoever had the morning chores had forgotten to come so they had gone all day without food. Poor things....