Tonight was the last of the open houses / curriculum nights for the boys. Figured I needed to get off of the sports and type about something else….
Kevin: At the high school, C-night is 10 minutes in each class. Not a lot of highlights here, but, did have fun hearing things in the class and asking Kevin if he knew about them. For example:
D: “Kevin needs to get CD for geometry book to load on computer”
K: “I did”
D: “Oh. Good. Why r u bringing book home then”
K: “Oh yeah. Whoops”
D: “Do u want to do Michigan math prize competition?”
K: “No”
D: “You will try geometry extra credit?”
K: “?”
D: “Did you do English extra credit? Due tomorrow.”
K: “There’s English extra credit?”
School goes well….we’re not stumbling out of the gate this year. Which is good.
Kevin is thinking of asking someone to the Homecoming dance…..will have to decide how I want to handle this on the blog. Might have to look and see if I can password protect certain posts….
Matthew: Matthew’s class always get the shaft on these…we’ve just attended last year so it’s hard to get any enthusiasm up to go to it this year. Same teacher, mostly the same curriculum (big change in reading/spelling though). Arrived almost as it was ending and heard most of the Big Zoo Lesson talk.
The third graders….
Christopher: The big change in the reading/ spelling curriculum meant that we absolutely had to be at the 4th grade night to understand what the heck is going on. Only one spelling lesson has come home and the words were a big step up from last year. It’s been a challenge.
Received this email yesterday afternoon:
“Good evening,
While I’m thinking about it, I just wanted to share with you that I received two very nice compliments about Christopher this week. One was from a lunch/playground supervisor and the other was from our physical education teacher, Ms. Hough. Both gave examples of Christopher volunteering to do something to help them or another student without even being asked. He has had a great start to the school year! Hopefully, we’ll see you tonight.”
So, it seems like Christopher is off to a good start at school. Fourth grade brings book reports, which will be a challenge. Found out last night that they did some in-class reading the other day, and the teacher is very clear, if you are nervous at all and don’t want to do it she won’t call on you….and she was pleasantly surprised that Christopher had his hand up early and did a pretty good job at it. I need to schedule a time to talk about where he’s at it with reading and spelling with her; hope to do that next week.
