School Days

We are coming to the end of school and I am really going to miss the boy's first grade teacher. She has become a friend to our family. She is originally from Pittsburgh and went to the same schools as hubby's Mom's family. She taught both kids first grade and she is amazing. She tailors the curriculum to the students needs, by enrichment reading and math programs for those kids that are doing well. It is her philosophy that the kids need to be engaged so that boredom doesn't set in.

This was the boy's homework assignment last week. I know I wasn't doing this type of math at 6 (or even now without a calculator). Luckily, the boy loves math. As you can probably tell by his writing, he doesn't like writing that much.

The boy is in the reading enrichment program. They just read a book about the ocean and wrote a play that they performed for their class and the kindergartners. The boy was a swordfish. I don't think that was by accident. He had recently done an ocean report on a swordfish. Their assignment was to research and write about an ocean creature. Once he read about how fast the swordfish can swim (60 mph) it was all over.

I am happy the kids have had such amazing teachers that foster a love of learning.

The girl's former second grade teacher has requested the boy for next year. She is also fantastic! Though, she is known as the "handwriting police" around school. A name she loves! So, we may have a bit of a challenge in that area next year.