Some assorted Kid Notes that have been jotted down in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
This is totally unofficial, and I base it without knowing anything about the rest of the school, but I\u2019m declaring my girls the Reading Champions of St. P\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Second graders are given reading wheels during second semester they are required to complete. They contain 12 categories, with the entries each, that the kids have to read a book for. For example, two mysteries, two animal books, two books of poetry, and so on. C. was the first kid in her grade to complete hers and earn a week free from homework.<\/p>\n
Next, the entire school had a reading challenge in March. Each day you wrote down how much you read and at the end of the month, you tallied it up and turned it in. For some reason it took over a month to get the results, but both M. and L. were winners for their classes. Each girl got their name announced to the entire school, got an out-of-uniform day, and earned ice cream at lunch.<\/p>\n
C. did a fine job there as well, but unfortunately (for her) a girl in her class read almost as much as M. and kind of blew the rest of the second grade away.<\/p>\n
The best part about the reading challenge was that L. called her shot. When the explanatory sheet came home in late February, she announced, \u201cI\u2019m going to win it!\u201d It ain\u2019t braggin\u2019 if you can back it up.<\/p>\n
I hope L. keeps her love of all things school-related going forward. A mom from her class told me one day that, when the kindergarteners received an assignment that was supposed to be done over a week, her son said, \u201cL.\u2019s probably going to have it done before the weekend is over.\u201d The mom also said that her son is always talking about smart L. is.<\/p>\n
Oh, she did have that project done before the weekend was over.<\/p>\n
One more reading note. L. and I read together most nights before bed. Some nights she reads to me. But we\u2019ve been getting into longer chapter books and I\u2019ve been reading to her again when we work through those. We\u2019re three books into the Ivy and Bean series, which we are both enjoying.<\/p>\n
In one of the books, Bean is talking about her big sister, who is always bossing her around and meddling in her fun. L. leaned over to me, put her hand to my ear, and whispered, \u201cI know how that feels!\u201d then looked at me with a crazy grin. I tried not to react, but in seconds we were both laughing. M. was sitting a few feet away from us. She generally thinks you\u2019re talking about her even if you\u2019re not, so she immediately began whining that we were making fun of her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not!\u201d I lied as I tried to control my laughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen what are you laughing about?\u201d she shrieked.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh\u2026just that crazy Bean!\u201d<\/p>\n
L. and I looked at each other and lost it again.<\/p>\n
I mentioned in my post for C.\u2019s birthday how sweet she can be. L. has a sweet side, too. Recently M. completed a big social studies project with three classmates. It involved about three weeks of work and two get-togethers outside of school to assemble the materials. The girls got a perfect score for their research and presentation.<\/p>\n
The evening the grading sheet came home, I found a dollar sitting next to it on the kitchen counter. When I asked who the dollar belonged to, L. said, \u201cI gave it to M. for doing such a good job on her project!\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, I think that\u2019s just L. being sweet. But there is a small part of me that thought, \u201cI wonder if M. heard that kids in her class get monetary rewards for good grades and told L. to give her a dollar so maybe S. and I would start giving them money when they bring home A\u2019s.\u201d I wouldn\u2019t put it past them.<\/p>\n
OK, these are turning out to be mostly about L.. Oh well.<\/p>\n
I may have mentioned this one before, but back when M. was still playing volleyball, we were sitting in the school lobby one afternoon waiting for practice to start. That was also the first day of track practice, and those kids – fourth graders and up – were in the gym going through workouts. The gym teacher walked by us, looked at L., and said, \u201cL., why aren\u2019t you in there with them?\u201d<\/p>\n
She just grinned.<\/p>\n
The kid\u2019s built quite the reputation already.<\/p>\n
C. and L. are still in the midst of their sports seasons. Both continue to do well. C. is in a four-game run where she has not made an out[1] and L. is scoring goals at will.<\/p>\n
But kickball ended two weeks ago. St. P\u2019s ended the season with a game against St. B\u2019s, the school that had beat them 27\u20132 earlier in the year. If that wasn\u2019t a tough enough match-up, had our girls somehow pulled out the win, they would have to play St. B\u2019s again the next day to break a first-place tie to determine who went to the tournament.<\/p>\n
St. P\u2019s got St. B\u2019s out 1\u20132\u20133 in the first, then scored three runs in the bottom of the inning. Much better start than the first game, when no one reached safely until the third inning.<\/p>\n
But it didn\u2019t last. Those St. B\u2019s girls are damn good and won 19\u20136. The St. B\u2019s mom who kept score with me said that grade is filled with super athletic girls. Funny how talent sometimes pools like that. Our girls have a handful of good athletes, some that are ok, and some that are just out there. But the grade behind them is crazy athletic. Apparently they went through their kickball season not only undefeated, but with most games ended early because of the run rule. I\u2019ve seen those girls in the library and some of them tower above M. and some of her classmates.<\/p>\n
Anyway, we\u2019ll see if this is M.\u2019s final year of kickball. She wants to run cross country in the fall, which will require some work in the summer. She\u2019s never run more than around the block, so I\u2019m not convinced A) she knows what she\u2019s getting into and B) she\u2019s capable of running that far yet.<\/p>\n
This was also, likely, the last time this group of girls will play together. Fifth and sixth graders play together, and the best girls are often grouped together. We\u2019ve reached the point where talent is going to start moving girls in different directions.<\/p>\n
Big, fat, daddy jinx for tomorrow\u2019s game right there! \u00a0\u21a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some assorted Kid Notes that have been jotted down in recent weeks. This is totally unofficial, and I base it without knowing anything about the rest of the school, but I\u2019m declaring my girls the Reading Champions of St. P\u2019s. Second graders are given reading wheels during second semester they are required to complete. They contain 12 categories, with the entries each, that the kids have to read a book for. For example, two mysteries, two animal books, two books of poetry, and so on. C. was the first kid in her grade to complete hers and earn a week free from homework. Next, the entire school had a reading challenge in March. Each day you wrote down how much you read and at the end of the month, you tallied it up and turned it in. For some reason it took over a month to get the results, but both M. and L. were winners for their classes. Each girl got their name announced to the entire school, got an out-of-uniform day, and earned ice cream at lunch. C. did a fine job there as well, but unfortunately (for her) a girl in her class read almost as much as M. and kind of blew the rest of the second grade away. The best part about the reading challenge was that L. called her shot. When the explanatory sheet came home in late February, she announced, \u201cI\u2019m going to win it!\u201d It ain\u2019t braggin\u2019 if you can back it up. I hope L. keeps her love of all things school-related going forward. A mom from her class told me one day that, when the kindergarteners received an assignment that was supposed to be done over a week, her son said, \u201cL.\u2019s probably going to have it done before the weekend is over.\u201d The mom also said that her son is always talking about smart L. is. Oh, she did have that project done before the weekend was over. One more reading note. L. and I read together most nights before bed. Some nights she reads to me. But we\u2019ve been getting into longer chapter books and I\u2019ve been reading to her again when we work through those. We\u2019re three books into the Ivy and Bean series, which we are both enjoying. In one of the books, Bean is talking about her big sister, who is always bossing her around and meddling in her fun. L. leaned over to me, put her hand to my ear, and whispered, \u201cI know how that feels!\u201d then looked at me with a crazy grin. I tried not to react, but in seconds we were both laughing. M. was sitting a few feet away from us. She generally thinks you\u2019re talking about her even if you\u2019re not, so she immediately began whining that we were making fun of her. \u201cWe\u2019re not!\u201d I lied as I tried to control my laughter. \u201cThen what are you laughing about?\u201d she shrieked. \u201cOh\u2026just that crazy Bean!\u201d L. and I looked at each other and lost it again. I mentioned in my post for C.\u2019s birthday how sweet she can be. L. has a sweet side, too. Recently M. completed a big social studies project with three classmates. It involved about three weeks of work and two get-togethers outside of school to assemble the materials. The girls got a perfect score for their research and presentation. The evening the grading sheet came home, I found a dollar sitting next to it on the kitchen counter. When I asked who the dollar belonged to, L. said, \u201cI gave it to M. for doing such a good job on her project!\u201d Now, I think that\u2019s just L. being sweet. But there is a small part of me that thought, \u201cI wonder if M. heard that kids in her class get monetary rewards for good grades and told L. to give her a dollar so maybe S. and I would start giving them money when they bring home A\u2019s.\u201d I wouldn\u2019t put it past them. OK, these are turning out to be mostly about L.. Oh well. I may have mentioned this one before, but back when M. was still playing volleyball, we were sitting in the school lobby one afternoon waiting for practice to start. That was also the first day of track practice, and those kids – fourth graders and up – were in the gym going through workouts. The gym teacher walked by us, looked at L., and said, \u201cL., why aren\u2019t you in there with them?\u201d She just grinned. The kid\u2019s built quite the reputation already. C. and L. are still in the midst of their sports seasons. Both continue to do well. C. is in a four-game run where she has not made an out[1] and L. is scoring goals at will. But kickball ended two weeks ago. St. P\u2019s ended the season with a game against St. B\u2019s, the school that had beat them 27\u20132 earlier in the year. If that wasn\u2019t a tough enough match-up, had our girls somehow pulled out the win, they would have to play St. B\u2019s again the next day to break a first-place tie to determine who went to the tournament. St. P\u2019s got St. B\u2019s out 1\u20132\u20133 in the first, then scored three runs in the bottom of the inning. Much better start than the first game, when no one reached safely until the third inning. But it didn\u2019t last. Those St. B\u2019s girls are damn good and won 19\u20136. The St. B\u2019s mom who kept score with me said that grade is filled with super athletic girls. Funny how talent sometimes pools like that. Our girls have a handful of good athletes, some that are ok, and some that are just out there. But the grade behind them is crazy athletic. Apparently they went through their kickball season not only undefeated, but with most games ended early because of the run rule. I\u2019ve seen those girls in the library and some of them tower above M. and some of her classmates. Anyway, we\u2019ll see if this is M.\u2019s final year of kickball. She wants to run cross country in the fall, which will require some work in the summer. She\u2019s never run more than around the block, so I\u2019m not convinced A) she knows what she\u2019s getting into and B) she\u2019s capable of running that far yet. This was also, likely, the last time this group of girls will play together. Fifth and sixth graders play together, and the best girls are often grouped together. We\u2019ve reached the point where talent is going to start moving girls in different directions. Big, fat, daddy jinx for tomorrow\u2019s game right there! \u00a0\u21a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,26,98,14,37],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-family","tag-kickball","tag-parenting","tag-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14029,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/14029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}