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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.

Violet, Gemma, Clara, Tabitha, Juliet, Sophia, Eve, Zoe

and the flowers they planted.

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LindaNovember 26, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Beautiful! Girls and flowers!!! I miss you all!
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Hello, and welcome to my family's blog. I'm Kyndra, a working mom, and my husband, Rob is a working dad. Our daughters are very typical, all-American girls, and our son is perfect. We also have a Jack Russell Terrier, Kokopelli (Pelli) who is four and just what you'd expect of a Jack Russell.

I'm an English teacher. Right now I'm only teaching part time for the local community college and an online consortium of community colleges. Next year I plan to go back to work teaching high school full time.

The girls are all little geniuses, and, if you know them, you know I'm not just saying that. In fact, Eve, who is now in 9th grade, scored very high on her 7th grade FCAT (99th percentile for everything), so she was "tagged" for the Duke University Talent Identification Program, and took the ACT when she had just turned 12 years old, scoring high enough to be admitted into the program. Zoe, who is now in 10th grade, has already completed 3 college credits, and also scored high enough on the ACT, which she took in 8th grade, to be admitted into Duke TIP. Sophia, now in 6th grade, finished up her 4th grade year reading beyond 12th grade level, according to the testing the elementary school does. Juliet scored a 5 for math on FCAT in the 3rd grade and excelled at math in 4th grade. She's now in 5th grade and is doing just as well in all of her subjects. Tabitha has superior artistic talent, both for drawing and writing, and had a poem published last year when she was in 3rd grade. Clara is in 3rd grade now, and makes straight As, as she has every year. Gemma, who is in kindergarten, can read and spell short words by sounding them out. Little Violet, who is only four, can sing her ABCs, knows her colors, and can write everyone's names in the family. Levi is only one, but he knows all of his sisters by name (this may sound easy, but remember that he has eight of them). He knows where is tummy is, although he sometimes confuses his nose with his toes. He does know where to put his shoes, anyway, but just this morning he tried to put his jacket on like a pair of pants. Ivy-Jane, the baby, is a genius, too. I can tell by the bright eyes. Obviously superior intellects. :)

Kyndra's Book List

A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Clan of the Cave Bear
Emma
Empire Falls
Harry Potter (whole series)
I Know This Much is True
Little Earthquakes
Me & Emma
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Midwives
My Sister's Keeper
Pride and Prejudice
Sarah's Key
She's Come Undone
Sula
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Book of Ruth
The Cider House Rules
The Color Purple
The Crucible
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
The Deep End of the Ocean
The Good Mother
The Handmaid's Tale
The Kite Runner
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Pilot's Wife
The Poisonwood Bible
The Scarlet Letter
The Secret Life of Bees
The Shack
The Time Traveler's Wife
Those Who Save Us
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tortilla Flat
Twilight (whole series)
We Were the Mulvaneys
Where the Heart Is

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

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