I swear this week has been 10 days long. And it's only Thursday.
Last night, I got a voice mail from Mrs. L, Daniel's teacher. She was talking about some things when she mentions that the class is further ahead with sight words than Daniel is. She said that she had been trying to work with him when he proclaimed that he can't read those words...he can only read Japanese. LOL! Mike and I fell over laughing so hard. That's my boy.
Seriously, though, this school district is tough. Mrs. L said that they consider the kids behind if they are not reading by the end of kindergarten. We've got a lot of work to do. Luckily, he'll be getting help from the Reading Specialist.
Jacob's fallen right into the groove of school. His teacher, Mrs. G, says that he's an excellent reader and he seems to be handling math really well too. He's loving the science stuff that they are doing. They are working on a unit on geology and they've been taking soil and rock samples and doing all sorts of experiments. Tomorrow he has "Student Sharing" (think show and tell). He's actually graded on it. Mrs. G asked him to bring photos of Virginia and is counting it as geography. He's been doing book reports as well...the goal is 12 per month.
Today, he brought home an assignment packet for economics. He has to visit a business (on his own...not as a class) and make a poster that he will be presenting to the class (that should go well). He's graded on the poster, the presentation and use of economics words in the questionaire as well as a whole host of other things. His teacher specifically said that the students are to do the assignment...not the parents. They take the pictures, they type out labels for the poster (or write on the poster), they put everything together. I like that. But...if this is second grade, what's in store for third?
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Since it was Thursday Barb, I should tell you that they had the grand opening of Krispy Kreme on this day! It's located at Sterling and War Drive.
Sterling and War Memorial...don't they run parallel? Oh...wait...I get it. Where Sterling, Glenn and War Memorial come together, right? Over by Northwoods and Avanti's. How in the world did they put a Krispy Kreme there?
I don't really know how they did it. There was a big deal about how part of the street was closed in front of it. I saw it out of the corner of my eye last week, but I don't get to rubberneck around there since road construction. Construction has ended, but when I went up to Sam's the other evening, the light was out at War Drive and Scenic and it was bloody hell getting through the brand new intersection. Peoria traffic engineers should be beaten with stout sticks.
No place is worse than Dubuque. Their roads were bizarre.
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