First week of school went well

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Registered: 05-02-2003
First week of school went well
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Mon, 09-10-2007 - 1:41pm

As a follow-up to my post last week the first week of school went well.

So far so good. Everett has definately grown maturity wise over the summer and I am sure it helps having teacher's that don't play favorites. I know he is paying attention because he mentioned something on Saturday about geography that he learned in class last week. He is much more upbeat and willing to do his homework. Just his overall feeling about school is different. Granted he doesn't like school just as much as the next kid but he definately has a whole different outlook in this school year. He wants to get good grades because he knows now what I will do if he doesn't try his hardest plus I think he knows that his teacher's this year are good teacher's and he doesn't want to get on the teacher's bad side. For example last school year he wasn't doing his homework and he wasn't writing down all of his assignment's (plus I wasn't getting anywhere with his teacher to help) so I sent him to after-school with his sister. No sixth grader wants to go to after school with his little sister. Which is where I will send him if he tries to pull those tricks this year.

He will start tutoring soon with the same tutor as last school year. We had great success with this tutor plus Everett went to the summer school that the tutor ran. He will also see that same counselor as last school year.

Only time will tell but I have a much better feeling about this school year. Plus he already had his first spelling test, which is one of his worst subjects and the list was some of the 20 most misspelled words. I made him do flash cards for all of the words plus write the words 10 times each on top of the teacher making the class do them 5 times each. Then when he misspelled a word (misspell was one of the words) I made him look the word up in the dictionary. Then I gave him an index card box to keep all his flash cards in to help him study for mid-terms and finals. So I think he knows I mean business.

I'll keep you posted.

 

 

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Registered: 06-25-2003
Mon, 09-10-2007 - 6:54pm

A good teacher and a good start ti the year makes all the dofference, doesn't it?

-Paula

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