report cards

It's that time of year, I think. Our second quarter has ended, and Emery brought home his second report card today. He's excelling in his class. He knows all of the First 100 Sight Words, and 64 from the second grade list. He's doing Accelerated Reader tests and has passed the past several with 100%. We also got the rubric back from his oral report. He got 20 points out of 20. His teacher had really nice things to say about his hard work. We've slacked with spelling practice at home, so his spelling tests haven't been too great. I forget that he needs to practice spelling because he's a smarty about most things. The English langauge is HARD to spell. Another thing they are doing in his class is identifying coins. He knows all the coins and can tell what each is worth. I help once a week with Math and we usually play a math game where the kids have to count the coins (dimes or nickels) to get the correct amount of change. It's pretty impressive.

He's also in love with The Magic Treehouse books. I didn't realize that they get more difficult the farther into the series you get. He read "Dinosaurs before Dark" (which is book #1) and then his dad took him to the library. He picked out "Crazy Day with Cobras" (which is book #45). He's enjoying it as he reads while I get the girls to bed at night.

This might be my favorite exersise that his teacher does. She reads a paragraph and the kids have to listen and write what they hear. The paragraph reads, "The farmer saw the black and white toy boat out on the water. It floated under the shiny steel bridge to a small beach."

Emery wrote, "The frmr so the blak and wiet toey bot owt on the wotr. It flotid udr the shine stil brij to a sml besh." He used capital letters and periods.

This is an example of Emery's numbers. I love that he got the two backwards and the twelve is correct. On the back of this page his teacher had him write two other numbers, 31 (written correctly) and 10043 (for 143).

Because he's doing so well, we had Wendy's for dinner. Emery was thrilled with his caramel apple parfait. We're so glad Emery loves school.

Diet season

Isn't it diet season? My sister sent me this, and because it made me laugh out loud, I am sharing it with the three people that read my blog you.

Happy diet season!

he is...she is...she is...

I used to do these "he is...she is" posts (see here). But now I have two little shes.

Emery is loving Magic Treehouse books. He's also getting 100% on his AR tests. He loves school.

Chani is writing all her letters and reading words. She reads a verse at family scripture study and can say about 30% of the words without help! She also likes to take pictures of herself with my camera.

Saya is practicing her baby yoga every day. Her little abs are strong. She is fine and did not die or even get an injury when her car seat blew/fell off the cart in the Sam's Club parking lot yesterday. I am really grateful to the men in the green "wicked" truck who stopped to help us.

I'm glad this day is over

I had a bad day. I'm tired and glad it's nearly over.

I'm not good at saying no. I'm working on it.

I stubbed my toe and my nail broke. Ouch.

Out sitter can't tend for us this weekend and our plans would have been really fun.

Emery probably won't do so hot on his spelling test tomorrow. We didn't practice enough.

Dinner time was a disaster tonight. Sigh.

But there were some great things today too.

I folded all the laundry (yes I'm behind this week).

It was our first day back to preschool and it went great. Only 13 weeks to go.

I have good people in my life who let me vent so I can not be a baby.

Here's to a better tomorrow.

Goals

So we had a really nice Family Home Evening the other night. We talked about what we want to do this year. I won't share all of the goals, but just a couple of things.

Emery wants to learn to swim and stop picking his nose. He came up with both of these on his own, and he really wants to succeed.

Chani wants to run a race with me. I better get myself in gear so that we can run something.

We also have a plan to grow and put up our garden this summer, and I'm really excited to work on that goal as a family.

Parent roles

So I asked Chani what I should ask her dad to make me for dinner. She said, "He doesn't know how to cook." Oh dear.
What would you ask for if someone else were cooking?

My new birthday gift

My husband loves me a bunch! He surprised me with a new kitchen table and 4 chairs. Emery and Chani gave me the bench to match.  I'm so happy!