We are staying in town at Jon’s parents this weekend, and it’s been such a nice day.
We took the kids to the pool, stopped at Choice’s Market, picked up a swim suit for Geli (and boy was that fun), had a barbeque, and now the kids are all in bed – Jon is chatting with his brother, and I am plunking away on the computer.
We have to be up bright at early tomorrow to be at a 9am service – fun, fun, fun.
I’ll be around a bit more next week and I think that I’m going to plan for some “down time” as last week ended up feeling way to rushed and busy.
Jeremy is finished his first full week of Summer School, and has gone from entering the program and reading at a level 14 on Monday to reading at a level 8 on Friday. This kind of bugs me a bit because I’ve never thought that jeremy was as “behind” as they figured he was. He has always read for me, at home, way better than they had indicated at the school. Once we put jeremy on Ritalin, the Learning Assistance teacher tested him and he was at a level 14/15 – this is when he was signed up for the Summer camp program….withint the last few weeks of school they tested him again, and he was at a 16, and the they tested him once more and said that he was at a 17 and maybe they could have pushed him once more up to an 18…..
The reason why this ugs me is because the level that they expect you to finish off Grade two at is level 20….Jeremy is 2 levels away from that once week into Summer School. Now I’m sure this is a great program, but I’m also equally sure that it’s not that great, that he’s just flying through the levels because of their great program.
So, I wonder at the necessity of the program. Now, I know that it can only help, and that it won’t hurt for him to have the extra 5 weeks of teaching, but it sure is bothersome to me.
We have to be around to drop him off at 9am, and to pick him up at 2:45pm and to read with him for 15 minutes before we can leave. It means that I really can’t go anywhere during the day. And that sucks!
I know it will be good when he goes back in the fall, but whine, whine whine…it sucks now.
Well, that is about the extent of the words that Ihave to share right now.
Gonna go and post on the other side about some family member…..you could check it out…..if you wanted to.
So did he drop to an 8!! Or was that a typo?
He’s at 18 now, right?
Get the girls to walk him to school. Good exercise. and So much fun bonding time!