Miss Kid Update

[yendi]

After three weeks, the school has finally freed up the schedule of the Discovery teacher so that the Discovery program can begin (Discovery=Dekalb's "Gifted" program). So Elayna's second year of Discovery begins today! They'll be discussing the Olympics, joining a Math league of some sort, and reading from a nice accelerated reading list (which includes From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, which Elayna just started yesterday!)

Miss Kid also started band this week. Playing flute, and attempting to get the instrument to make a sound. :-)

She spent this morning working on the cover of the current issue of Games Magazine (which features yet another puzzle by slipjig, btw!). The puzzle is a montage of company and product mascots (everyone from Mr. Clean to Quisp). It's scary how well my little consumer did. :-)

She also apparently woke up at 3, and never got back to sleep. She's going to be a cranky camper tonight.

I think that's the major update on her for the week. Regular classwork is often forgotten by the time the day lets out (why should she remember what she did in class when she can remember what she did in aftercare instead?), but I know they've been working on adding/subtracting fractions and on the parts of a flower.

Comments

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

I genuinely sucked on that particular puzzle. Corporate America hates me. :-)

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Mixed up files is an awesome book! One of the few I truly enjoyed from my childhood...the first place I ever read the word "sarcophagus"!

[aiela.livejournal.com]

I loved that book. I should get it from the library and shove it at Brittany. :)

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

If she doesn't have her flute yet, blowing across a bottle is good practice, too.

[crystalrowan.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness - that was one of my favorite books as a kid!! (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler)

Go Miss Kid!

FtM-UFoMBEF!

[dixie.livejournal.com]

Have the little missus :D email me when she's done reading, if she'd like to chat about the book. (or while she's reading it, for that matter)

[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

... which includes From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler ...

I was Elayna's age, maybe a year older, when I read that book. God, I loved it. And it turned out to be one of my earliest this-author's-other-books-don't-please-me-as-much experiences -- a problem that continually plagues me to this day.

That and "Harriet the Spy" were two of my very favorites at her age.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

She loved Harriet the Spy...

[ktar.livejournal.com]

Ah the Accellerated Reader Program. Such a great idea for elementary and even some middle schools. My experience with it however, was in highschool.

Where it's a fucking joke.

Forcing every kid in highschool to read from a limited selection of books is ridiculous. For some, it'll force them to read a few books, and they might even enjoy them. But they'll never 'pick up' reading at this point. It's a waste of time. For thosse that already read, most of them have developed a decent taste in literature, and will function much better if left to read books of their own choosing.

I love to read. I love to read. *glances at my own little library* But the semester of each year from grades 9-11 where we had to do the Accellerated Reader Program was pure fucking torment.

Wow. Just kinda went off there. Oops.

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

GREAT book!
I hope she enjoys it.

[melvh.livejournal.com]

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

What a great story! Loved it when I was little. I even remember they made a movie of that --with Ingrid Bergman, I believe, playing Mrs Frankweiler.