school....

I thought some of you might like an updated post about the kid's school.
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Patrick is doing pretty well in his first grade class. No more meltdowns since the first week. :) He is starting to read and able to write things out. It's so fun and cute to watch/listen to him sounding out the phonics in the words. He is very proud of himself! He claims to hate math....definitely his mother's son there :)
He takes lunch from home every day. He has not braved school lunches yet and besides he just has to have his daily PB&J.
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Autumn, the second grader, is above the bar in most of her work. We talked to her teacher and she is going to be tested for the gifted program. She absolutely LOVES school! Math is pretty much her favorite subject...not my child! She belongs to Harold...haha :) She loves to brave the school lunches and enjoys them. She has this whole school thing down well.
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Jessica is doing well with her eighth grade online work. Although, today I discovered how she gets ahead so quickly. She is skipping parts of the work. I went in her room and went over some science with her and explained to her that she CAN NOT skip around. The teacher expects her to do all the work and it all builds on each other. So tomorrow she and I will be doing some things together.
She does love school though and is anxious to get started on her art course now that the lessons have finally been posted!
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Ryan is in high school! Yikes...that is so strange to say. He is a ninth grader and is having an interesting time getting all this down. I have to spend a lot of time at the computer with him to make sure things are getting down. I am also his designated "note girl":) I thought Japanese was going to be his most challenging course, but I was mistaken. English is giving us both difficulties and I am going to have to ask for outside help from a friend. I am just not an essay person....
We were proud though to see that he scored a 100 on his first 'Computer Fundamentals' assignment. He had to do a Word document with specific instructions. He was very pleased...that and the two A's in his Algebra have pumped him up :)