Such a slacker

Okay, so I haven't posted now in what, two weeks? There's been a lot going on in the Musser household. We had parent teacher conferences on Thursday. Sariah is doing very well, she just needs to work on subtraction but her teacher said the rest of her class needs to work on it as well. Ms Dettman said she's very bright and helpful and said that the next time they test reading levels she'll probably be at the level that you need to test to in order to leave the third grade. Sariah's been pestering her teacher for a special reading workbook they have; so now she has it to work on during vacation.



It was no suprise to us that Becca's review was not as stellar. Although she knows her shapes and colors, she is having difficutly sorting. And although she writes "Rebbecca Mae Musser" all over everything, when her teacher gave her a list with her name spelled several ways, she couldn't pick the right way. She's also not getting the concept of rhyming. Well, sometimes she does and sometimes she doesn't. She gets it confused with words that begin with the same letter. The last academic thing is that she doesn't quite have the "print concepts" they've gone over like parts of a book and parts of a sentence. I guess I need to read with her more and go over those. The teacher also said that all of her social skills need improvement (suprise, suprise) although she had no suggestions on what to do except for give her goldfish crackers when she's good like they do at school.

Let's see, what else has happened this week? The kids have managed to break JD's bed already (and I haven't even posted the pictures yet!). RC Willey is coming out to fix it next month. Becca thought it would be fun to hang by the ceiling fan blades in her room. Jeremy tried to take the bunk beds down but the room isn't wide enough to fit the beds and the dresser. He did take the desk away though because they keep getting on the desk, opening the window, and popping out the screen. He hasn't decided what he wants to do about the issue with the fan. I guess we'll see if she does it again. Maybe she'll learn if she rips the thing out of the ceiling and falls flat on her butt. They also took my Halloween pumpkin, got it open somehow, and spread the seeds all over their bedroom floor. Oh, and yesterday when we went to the store Sariah tried to swipe a pack of gum.

Those are all the reasons why I haven't posted in a while. And I bet Mom is real surprised that I haven't called her crying and tearing my hair out yet this week. I'll get some pictures posted soon.