Not really a lot to say, just thought I would create a new entry.Maeghan was upset the other day. She did not make the finals of the school talent show. She was performing a dance she and another girl made up. There were only two spots open and a lot of people trying out for it but she missed out. Having only been there a month or so, she had not had a lot of time to practice with it so it was understandable, but she was upset. She will get over it, probably by the next day. And she can practice for the next one, whenever that is.
William is doing ok, I suppose. Have not heard if he has improved in his classes. When he first started, they seemed to think he should already be able to read and add and subtract. I have no idea why they think the kids in kindergarten should already know how to do that, but the comment from the teacher was that she can send her other students to their desks to read and they all do it but William always wants to play. Which is what William would do but I don't believe the other kids are actually reading books.
We have tried to help, we got flash cards for William and go over them every day. He knows about half of the letters but he does not seem to be improving. The ones he knows, he says instantly, but the ones he does not, he says I don't know and starts to play. It is very hard to get him to concentrate, which of course, it has always been hard to get him to concentrate. He is only five, so I do not see it as a big problem but the school has already said they want a doctor to do an evaluation and I have said absolutely not. Too maybe kids are sent to the doctor and then labeled slow or needs medication or something else and they just hand them out like candy. I will not allow that to happen. If we have to pull him out of school, I will not let that happen. But we are well away from that option at this point. The teachers say they will work with him and see how he goes.
The strange part is he had none of these problems at the other school, or none that caused the teachers to bring it to our attention. He has always been hyper but at the old school, they had no problem working with him. I don't know if the problem is the new school and the teachers there or maybe the old school did not push him hard enough. I suspect there is a problem with the new school as they seem to do things a lot differently. For example, they combine classes. Maeghan's class has 60 kids in it. They have three teachers, but the class all sits in one room. It would appear originally, they had partitions for the rooms but have long since removed the partitions to combine the classrooms into really big rooms. I can see where it might be hard to get anything done in that environment. Too much noise, too maybe kids competing for attention, just too much stuff going on at the same time. I suppose we will just have to see how it goes. It is a new school and maybe they are trying something different, some new teaching method or something. We will see.
It has been raining for a week now. They are starting to get flooding north of here. They always get flooding north of here but it seems it is big news every year. We have had a lot of rain. William's last soccer game was cancelled and I am thinking today's practice might be cancelled as well. Last week, I was the only male parent there so I had to run practice. It was a very good practice as far as I am concerned. Kids did not really pay attention, but they never do. We did get through all the drills I designed and put them through. And, I think they had fun, so it was a good practice.
One issue was I had to run and show them all the different things I wanted them to do. I was exhausted. Running for 30 or 45 minutes, trying to keep up with 5 and 6 year olds was not exactly fun. There were only 5 of them there, there are only six on his whole team, but they always run around and never listen to what you are telling them. William is probably the worst, but the others seem to be catching up him in mucking up. I have always had the criticism of the others that run the practices that they spend too much time waiting in line for their turn to run the drills. It makes it easier for the coach but the kids do not get a lot out of it.
they had fun so it was a good practice.
Maeghan wanted to do some cooking the other day. She wanted to cook cookies. Not really make cookies, but get those kind that come in a roll and you just cut them up and bake them. Naturally, when William saw what we were doing, he wanted to do it also, but we did manage to make a couple of batches that got eaten as they came out of the oven. Maeghan could not understand why they were so soft and chewy. I had to explain that you normally do not eat them right out of the oven and if we let them cool, they would get hard. We tried that on a couple but that only lasted a few minutes before they could wait no longer and ate them.
She wants to do it again, but they are kind of expensive to buy and bake them that way. Today, I might get the raw ingredients so we can make them from scratch. She will probably like that better anyway.
I am also going to try cooking from one of my new cookbooks. I was reading through it the other day and thought that most of the recipes I could make easily, so I will buy one meal at a time and work my way through the book. Bad part is, it starts with soups and while I like soups, there are about 50 pages worth and if I go through it in order I will get tired of soup very quickly. So I might have to skip around a bit. It should be fun. The title of the book is Hot Food and has a lot of different recipes from different counties in it so I think it should be fun. Maybe Maeghan will want to help me with that, although I am sure she will not eat many of the dishes.
Well, it is about time I had to go. Juanita is here to go shopping and I am not dressed yet. She is still in the car so I am sure she is getting tired of waiting. I need to sign off and get dressed.
So, until next time
Talk to you later
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