W is back at both CCD and Youth Choir. Both groups joined forces this past weekend and W sang at a festival at the church where he has CCD. He had his first solo part in a song and he sang with a microphone in front of hundreds of people! Singing may actually turn out to be his "thing". I'll take him as far with it as he'd like to go. This should be interesting.
He has been doing great with Saxon 76, really enjoys Channel One News and Prince Caspian, and seems to be cultivating a brand new love of science after starting Science Essentials. I'm hoping this continues because we can do so many cool things with science. Experiments, nature study, and field trips are high on my list. We also started a new book called "Read & Understand Poetry". We have been studying poetry since W was in first grade, but this book really gets you into the poems. There are various questions and writing prompts that go with the poem. He answered all the questions thoughtfully and correctly and he's getting some good writing practice in, too. He gets it - he can read a poem and know and feel the meaning behind it. But the big surprise hit of the week was the paragraph editing book. What a wonderful and fun way to cover reading, spelling, vocabulary, and grammar. He has really taken to it. We always did this kind of editing in his Spelling Skills book and this has the same idea and uses the same symbols, but with many more. Correcting mistakes is something he's very good at. It's laid out with a set of 4 separate paragraphs that stay on one informative topic. He does one paragraph per day.
J is doing well in high school again this year. She loves it so much. She has such school pride - one of her friends is now a regular on Homeland and another friend is on The Voice (2 other LaGuardia HS alum are also on the show this season). She's trying to be as involved in the school as she can. She's auditioning for several things and will be working the dance auditions this year for incoming students. In other dance news, she will be going to another dance teacher event this weekend with the studio owner and 2 other teachers-in-training, is heavy into choreography for the new season, getting ready for next month's competition, working on her new solo she's choreographing, and coming up with weekly lesson plans and choreo for the 3 classes she teaches on Saturdays. She is incredibly busy and handles everything so responsibly.
K is enjoying her second year of college so far. She's still figuring out what exactly she'd like to do when she graduates, but she's got plenty of time. She has a few ideas on how she'd like her life to play out: college and trade school, work as much as possible before marriage and kids, then work from home while raising kids. It sounds like a great plan to me. I know she can do whatever she sets her mind to. I have to say I'm so grateful to be blessed with kids that always make me proud.
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