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How is the year going?

post #1 of 10
10/12/07 at 5:42am
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So we are a month into school here (and some of you are even further in)...
How is this year going for your kids in school?
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post #2 of 10
10/12/07 at 5:47am
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Tessa is in the third grade. She is still doing gifted twice a week. She loves her teacher, and apparently the teacher knows how to explain math so that Tessa gets it. In her words MATH ROCKS! Which is great, because last year math sucked big time, for her and for me fighting with her over homework. So this year seems to be going well, she is being challenged and staying interested in school much better this year than last year.
We still pack a lunch everyday, that way I know that she is eating the right foods to help her stay focused. I volunteer in her classroom one day a week, and stay and have lunch with her that day. I always have to laugh at the "healthy" lunch they are serving. On AFN they always advertise the school lunch program (you would have to be military to get how annoying the AFN commercials are) and how it's a healthy meal. Which is hilarious because in the commercial the kids are getting Pizza or a burger and fries... I have yet to see one healthy lunch served this year on Mondays. It is always something with fries and dessert. but I digress...
How is school going for your kids?
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post #3 of 10
10/12/07 at 10:13am
School is going good for Jacob this year. He is in first grade and seems to like it. He is getting some extra help for reading and he's still in speech. The only class that he really complains about is music.
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post #4 of 10
10/12/07 at 10:19am
Zachary is in 1st grade and loving every minute of it. He really seems to enjoy learning and is excelling in every subject.

Haley had a rocky start but is improving. She's in 6th grade this year and is having some problems keeping up with assignments from 5 different teachers. She got behind in homework and had to serve a detention which really motivated her to do her part BUT we still have problems with her losing things. She lost all of the information for a project that was due this week and although I reminded her every day to look for it or get it from someone else, she only came home with excuses as to why she still didn't have it. Her grades are allover the place. We got her interim report last week and they ranged from a D to A's.
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post #5 of 10
10/12/07 at 10:25am
Alyssa is doing great in 1st grade. The only spot she is having trouble in is Memory Work. She has straight A's so far and we are working with her to improve her memory work. (it's a low A) She's made lots of friends already in 2nd and in Kindy (they are recess together)
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post #6 of 10
10/12/07 at 1:58pm
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Karen, what is memory work exactly?

Elaine... something seems to be working with Tessa (at least for the moment anyway (change, adapt, and overcome)) is fining her money from her allowance for the forgotten item. She started leaving her jacket and lunchbox at school again so I had to change the consequences since the one wasn't working anymore. Now I take a quarter from her whenever she forgets the item at school... So far so good (one week in)
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post #7 of 10
10/12/07 at 2:10pm
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Originally Posted by LittleBit
Karen, what is memory work exactly?
Alyssa goes to a Christian day school (ie private school) her memory work consists of 3 or 4 nights a week she has a bible verse to memorise and recite the next morning. As 1st graders they get to partner up. Friday's memory work is usualy a Hymn verse that they work on all week in class. She gets 4s about 3/4 of the time. I have noticed that the days she doesn't are the days when I pass the girls off at the store to dad cause we work all day (which happens more these days)
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post #8 of 10
10/12/07 at 2:52pm
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Okay... that makes sense then. I knew that she went to a Christian school, I even think you may have said it was Lutheran. That is why I wasn't sure what memory work was. That is a good policy though.... I try to get Tessa to memorize bible verses as well. Never thought about starting Sammie at it yet... Ahh, so perhaps Dad isn't praciting the same way you are....
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post #9 of 10
10/12/07 at 4:14pm
Dad doesn't do homework with her unless I fill him in on what she has to do. I've started to just help her with her homework (make sure its all done) and then swap the girls out. The only thing I try to leave for him is her reading her books she brings home.
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post #10 of 10
10/13/07 at 12:26am
The only problems Joey is having are related to his organizational skills (or lack thereof ) That boy sure does take after his mother.

I sent a note to school with the teacher today, because he's been forgetting his math book once a week, and this week, forgot to bring home his word study book (which he's supposed to get on the first day of the week, bring home each day, and have completed by Friday), and his daily assignment book is never filled in. She sent a note back, saying she would make him show her what's he's bringing home each day, and that she would sign his assignment book each day as well. If he could just get into the habit of doing these things, I think it would fix 90% of the problems.

He's been having trouble remembering to have us write down his 30 minutes of reading each day, too, because he usually just counts bedtime reading, so someone has to remember to write it down in the morning. Since none of us can seem to remember to do that I told him he needs to start doing his 30 minutes during the day, after homework. We will also write down the bedtime reading, IF he remembers to ask us to do it. That way, bedtime reading becomes a bonus, and he still gets the assignment done.
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