School Update!

It's coming up on the end of the third week of school for Quentin and Zachery and let me tell you it has been an eventful three weeks. Quentin is doing great! He loves his teacher and is doing well in school. Three weeks of spelling tests and three 100%, so I am happy for him and his success. His teacher also does a really cool activity to make math fun and he is getting a kick out of that. She gives each student Mattern Money (her name is Mrs. Mattern) for coming to "work" each day. Everyday they show up for school they recieve a dollar for their attendance, but at the end of the week they must pay a $1.50 for rent. Every two weeks she sets up the "Mattern General Store" and they get to go shopping, but be careful of you spend to much or miss to many days, you may not be able to afford rent! Very interesting way to keep math interesting.

Zachery on the other hand has had a reality check throughout these few weeks. First he wasn't able to handle the long hours of school without a nap or "rest" time from preschool causing him to get the delightful idea of acting out on the bus! Of course it's not his fault and he was "just playing." He hit the neighbor boy and Quentin and decided it was fun to bite Quentin as well all on day one of week two. This behavior continued throughout the next couple of days causing a phone call from the bus driver. James happened to have my van that day, so papa picked him up from school and went over the rules and why they are so important and he had an early bedtime since he was unable to behave. The next day he was and angel...for the morning route, but decided to act up again in the afternoon. That brought us to the weekend and a very strong punishment. So far so good for week three, but we'll see how it lasts. Other than that Zachery is doing well in school. He is learning his sight words rather quickly and seems to be ahead of schedule when practicing at home.

In this process I had finals and started new classes, but hopefully everything is starting to smooth out and looking up for next week. Sorry no pics!