My kids' ROCK!

School conferences went awesome!! I attended 2 last Thursday, and then the last one at 7:30am this morning. I love hearing about my children thru the eyes of their teachers!

Okay, so Eris (1st) might have to be reminded every once in a while to stop chatting and start her work. lol That's JUST like her! lol Nothing out of the ordinary there - little social butterfly. She still hugs Dr. Lavalle (her Kindergarten teacher last year) every morning in carpool line. She has 100 friends in every grade imaginable and doesn't exclude a soul. That's my girl! Her grades are wonderful, her reading is exceptional and she LOVES doing it, and her favorite subject is lunch. She's invited to MORE playdates and sleepovers and parties than any kid I've ever seen! And she practices writing her name in cursive about 50 times a day.....and they don't know cursive yet.

Ella Grace (3rd) is a wonderful helper and is always the first to volunteer to do ANYTHING. Nope, no surprise there either. She's wonderful like that. (Unless it's the topic of cleaning her room or sweeping the floor at home. But who wants to do that stuff? Not me!) Her best friends are Cara Pate and Haley Wright, but she pairs up with anyone for anything and does her best. Mrs. Davis has had to find more math puzzles for the class, because EG has solved them all already and is asking for more.....and this is only month 3. Her spelling scores are super high, and she routinely scores over 20 more than average of her classmates each week on their timed math sheet in both addition and subtraction. At recess you may find her checking out the garden side by side with her teacher, playing ball with the boys, or sitting against the wall trying to finish the last chapter she's just dying to complete. Each day is something new with her.

Ethan (5th) is proving to be quite the leader. When Mrs. Patrick gave the class an empty room assignment and said rearrange your desks like my chart, and choose wisely....Ethan quickly took charge and his classmates followed his commands. He placed children where he thought best, and broke up pairs and told them why. lol His classmates seem to respect his thoughts, and he shows respect for them. Mrs. Patrick expressed just how impressed she was with his foresight and planning skills on that project. She also shared that upon setting up a boys' "round table" open discussion for class problems, he was the first to express an issue with another child that he wanted resolved. Ethan apparently looked the child in the face, called him by name, and respectfully said I don't like that you did this, it hurt my feelings, and I'd like my things back. The child admitted to doing it, apologized, and returned the items. The other children then opened up and discussed their issues, but it was that first, straight forward example that set the pace. Sounds a lot like family council at our house. (Brad thinks we might just have a class president in the making here. We'll see.)

A funny history project Ethan made: timeline of his life called the Kincaidian Eon

The Post Bornian Era has all these Epochs with funny names, like PreEthonion (Mom is pregnant), Nicknameion (Ella named me Bubby), and the Holiday-Worldian Epoch (first time to Holiday World). The LCS Era consists of just 3 Epochs, one where MacBeth went all wrong and he puked on stage, and another where he went to 5th grade and went to Pine Mountain for 3 days.

Then we move to the future: first the Teenagerizoic Era, followed by the Adulterizoic Era. Within the Teenagerizoic, the Scholarchipian Epoch has my son getting a scholarship to IU. REALLY? Hoosier? I don't THINK so! lol Skipping ahead to Adulterizoic Era, is a cute one called the Marrigeizoic Epoch where in 2024 he "gets married to a girl who is sweet, nice, and loves me." Awwwww! The next year he moves to Arizona. WHAT? Then the next year, now entering the Businessian Epoch, btw, he owns a fancy restaurant. Huh, never saw that coming. A couple years later, his BFF Will Schumann moves in with him (wonder what the new wife thinks of THAT?) and apparently they live that way for a LONG time, because nothing more happens on the timeline til 2067 when he enters the Deodizoic Epoch. Yes, he dies of war by getting drafted and getting shot. Lol. Someone, please inform my son that he won't get drafted at the age of 67. Love that kid!

And although I didn't have any teacher conference on Ehren (pre-K), he LOVES school. Has a tons of friends, but is quite particular as to WHO he calls "friend", cause he thinks he can only have just one of those. So, officially, according to Ehren, Hadley is his friend. But he plays with all the others. Tessa, Hank, Riley, Samantha, Nathan, Trent, Jaden, and Parker...the list goes on. And sits next to them. And likes them. But they aren't his friend. Cause Hadley is that. And Jenna still speaks English or something cause he can't understand a word she says. (Jenna is 2 - Hadley's little sister). And each week, Ehren takes the role of detective VERY seriously that Mrs. Wolken assigns the class. This week they were "J" detectives. I'm always very surprised when E4 squeals "there's a J!" on a billboard or on TV or in a book. I quit looking after 10 minutes of day 1. But here it is Wednesday and he hasn't forgotten the week long assignment. They've been detectives for O's, S's, T's, and now J's. He loves school!