Jacob had a very bad first quarter at Sutter. I must have wrongly assumed that he was mature enough to do his homework every night without my checking, and that he would stop talking in the classroom , especially during silent reading or when the teacher was talking! Well, after weeks of me getting on his case, he finally had his first perfect week last week! All assignments turned in, and not once getting in trouble for talking. For some reason, I thought he had his homework nailed down by fourth grade, but his talking was getting to be more of a problem as he got more and more comfortable at Sutter.
In light of all this, I was very happy yesterday to hear that Jacob won the classroom spelling bee. The last time he had won was in 2nd grade. In 1st grade, he didn't even get to the spelling bee because he was spacing out during the pretest and wrote "know" instead of "no", because he was eager to show off his spelling. In 3rd and 4th grade, he was nervous and made a mistake. This year, he finally took my advice to pretend to write the word on his hand before he speaks it. I told him he's very visual and a very good speller, so that technique works for him.
Also, he told me that at recess, he made two lay-ups. I'm so glad that he's been getting into basketball now that he's been watching the Warriors on TV . He's finally working on his basketball skills at school instead of playing handball!
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