Did this last year; figure I’ll do it again…go through boy by boy and write down a few thoughts. It’s a good time; parent teacher conferences are upon us and the sports schedule is pretty dead until after spring break.
I was talking with Matthew’s teacher the other day and she said he’s a lot of fun in class because he is so intense and serious and determined, and asked if we noticed that at home. Academically at home? We don’t see it at all…Matthew’s homework is an exercise in how-fast-can-I-get-this-done-what-do-you-mean-its-wrong-and-you-can’t-read-my-handwriting-can-I-go-now? The intense, serious, determined Matthew we see shows up on the sports fields…we’re happy to hear that he’s transferred that to school.
Matthew does very well in math and is improving quite a bit at reading….had a weird outlier of a result on some testing at school where it showed, on one test, he was just a little below the minimum. The test emphasizes accuracy and speed; can easily see how Matthew-I-want-to-be-done-now could have punted on that test. Last report I heard said he was reading above grade level, so, that’s a good thing. He’s consistently said the worst part of his school day is ‘art’…I can relate to that.
Soccer: Not at all sure what we’re going to do with him next year. Play up with the U10’s and be a good, not great player or go back to his age group and dominate? May have him go back for the local travel league and pay to put him with one of the soccer clubs (where he’ll get better coaching and would play up a level there).
Snowboarding: Has a major desire to do more of this
Flag Football/Basketball: Will not be doing flag football (but most certainly will be doing real football in 4th grade) and basketball may suffer next year because of the snowboarding urge.
Fishing: Don’t know why, can’t explain it, but the boy wants to fish. Always brings it up “Does that lake have fish, Dad?” and really really wants a fishing pole to get to work. Will have to arrange a trip soon he can see how boring it is I guess…
Lacrosse: He can’t play for 2 more years but is very taken with it right now; his friend up the street has a stick and the last few nights they have been playing catch pretty regularly.
I’ve been working on this post over the last few days; today the spring portraits arrived so I was able to incorporate them. Unlike Matthew’s normal photo events, these ones turned out pretty well.
