MOC Day 2-Faves List

i don't know why but what strikes me most is the dollar store pencils thing - i'm all about pens, i can never have enough, do you really use pencils heaps? are they your thing or for the kids? mine take my pens now, when DS got a pen license a few years back he was cheering and well, i wasn't, it was the beginning of the end for my pen stash as i knew it

@jesskab bwahaha - great bonus!

Wait, what's a pen license @bellbird ?!?!?

Jess, I love how happy this is! The elements combined with the photos are awesome! I love the arrow at the top too! It's a fantastic little touch.

@bestcee it's like the biggest deal in year 3 or 4 to try and have neat enough handwriting in pencil that the teacher grants you permission (and some teachers give an actual piece of paper certificate award thing) to use pen instead of pencil when doing school work - and i know it's a big deal b/c i've heard the kids from families we know sit on santa's lap and when he asks have you been good this year, what kinda stuff happened this year, that pen license thing is worth mentioning (and then they all tried to one-up each other by saying how early in the year they got it) - probably not a homeschool thing??

@bellbird Um, not even a regular school thing? At least not any schools I went to in Canada or the US. And none of my friends kids have done this? We wrote in mostly pencil all the way through grade 8 - 9. There were a few things we would write in pen, like final assignments, but I also was the generation that was required to start typing up papers for the final turn in - no handwriting them allowed.
My friends kids' are still required to have pencils for work, and they go up to grade 7. The high schoolers are mostly typed, and can use pen if they want to.

thru the start of your teens you were still writing notes in pencil?! seriously?! well the little things you learn from your international scrapping friends... it'll probably fade out here soon, DS started doing BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in year 3 for a few set days a week but they still did the (stupid) handwriting book (or photocopied pages of) - it was my nemesis in school and i was aghast when DD started that it was the same stupid standardised writing book etc but i don't think anyone writes in pencil after the start of year 5 here unless they can't find a pen!

(d'oh sorry jess - @bestcee see above)