Just a short update on Christian and school. It’s been pointed out that I did not mention Christian’s report card. Report card day was rather traumatic in our house this time around and I really didn’t want to talk about it. Honestly, his report card was better than we expected. He got 3s in most subjects (meets expectations). He got a 4 in PE, same as BJ. He only scored Occasionally in the Effort categories, and Rarely for Independent Work Skills. He got 1s in reading and writing because he didn’t turn in any work (or what he did turn in was incomplete).
Christian didn’t take it well and overall had a really awful day that day.
Oddly, the next day he was like a different kid. He had a map of WA State due the next day. Apparently it had been assigned weeks before. He got home from school and was enthusiastic about completing it. When he showed me, unfortunately I had to tell him he needed to start over from scratch. It was just a mess. He did throw a little bit of a fit, but I think he understood. This time, he typed out the 31 locations he was supposed to identify and while I ran to Office Depot to buy 11 x 17 paper for him to retrace it (and crayons, and white-out), he printed them, cut them apart, and figured out with Bill where they were really supposed to go.
He took the next two hours and re-traced the state, glued down all of the names, colored the whole thing, and wrote out his legend more neatly than I’ve seen him write in a while.
Here’s his WA State map:
Apparently, four of the labels aren’t quite in the right place, but he said his teacher told him he did a good job, and he got to make a big sugar cookie just like it and ate it all 🙂
On another fun note, his Reflections project will be going on to the next level of judging. Who knew? It really is genius, though. I have watched it many times and it’s so short it just never seems to get old 🙂
