Winding down the School Year
Posted By Kathleen David on June 1, 2011
The kids have only a couple more weeks of school before summer vacation.
Then we adjust to our summer schedule. We need to sign up for various things and figure out when Caroline will be going to summer camp. There are a couple of possibilities including Girl Scout Camp.
Where did the school year go? It went so quickly. Caroline has learned a lot this past year. Her reading skills have much improved. She loved poetry now. Shel Silverstein being a personal favorite. Her math skills are good. I just have to convince her that math is not hard but another language to be learned.
Today I have some school stuff I need to do and I need to talk to some people over at the school. We need to get Field Day set up.
I also want to go to the gym and get the food shopping done. All this before noon after getting Caroline off to school.
I am grateful for everything I can get done today.
That’s a great angle to take with Caroline re math. I’ve had an aversion to math my entire life, even though I got way higher on my math SATs than on my English ones (and I majored in English and linguistics in college!). I think it was because every male in my family is an accountant. So where did I wind up working? At an accounting firm, seriously considering going for a CPA. Everyone assures me I understand numbers just fine. it really is just another language, and it helps to look at it that way; wish my parents had described it that way to me!