As I sit here backing up photos before heading North for a few weeks I am thinking about how the school year has went.
For Sierra, we saw her quite bored at the beginning of the school year. “We are redoing things I learned in Grade 1”. I asked her today if she felt the same way throughout the year and she said “No. I learned a lot of stuff. My favourite things to do were the spirales.” The spirales were a combination of learning french language and math I believe?
Sierra made an incredible leap forward in reading. She can easily read a book on her now and we’re not talking those 20 page books…we’re talking Charlie and the Chocolate Factory size! I enjoy seeing her enjoy reading.
If anything, she has a lot of energy and has the need to learn more and more and more. I need to work harder on finding things outside of school to keep her interested.
For Ezra, he has made a remarkable improvement. From the kid who didn’t want to leave my side when walking into the school, to the kid who now carries his own backpack the whole walk to school and sometimes doesn’t say goodbye as he’s running off to school along with Conor, Scarlet and Sierra.
We are excited by this change in him…sure, he has a temper when he wants to but it’s nowhere near as bad as the first half of the year. I think he’s starting to understand how things work like interactions with others. His teachers once told us that Ezra is very calm and follow instructions well and I suppose that’s the ideal student to have! Haha.
Our kids are still happy to be around their parents and we look forward to another summer off with them.