~ My Love ~ My Life ~ My World ~: We survived the 1st Six Weeks of 1st Grade!!!!

We have survived the first 6 weeks of 1st grade! I feel like I am back in school. We read, do spelling words, work on sight words, and attempt math (poor things I think I will need a tutor when the math gets more than just adding and subtracting!). But, all in all they are doing great.

I meet with each of their teachers last week to check on their progress and transition from kinder to 1st.

We will start with Trayce man:
He has and I think will always be my perfectionist - he wants everything just in the right order and hates nothing more then to NOT be good at something! Well - school is going to come a little harder for him then most. He is very smart, but he has to work at knowing his sounds, recognizing his sight words etc, BUT I will say in the past 6 weeks, he has came miles from where he was. However, not making all 100's is very hard for him to accept. He threw away a 90 grade on a test in math he got - I found it and asked why - he said it's not a 100! I was like seriously it's an A (wish I would have made A's in math.. another blog ha) - he thought he should have done better. He is going to be his toughest critic, but it also pushes him to do better. It is sad the kids are so worried about making 100's now - spelling test for example, if they make a 100 on their pretest they don't have to take the test on Friday. I like the 2nd try, however it makes them think if they miss one or two they didn't do good... we are struggling with this at home, but he is getting better with accepting he isn't ALWAYS going to make a 100! Overall he is doing great and is making strives each week to be better. He goes with a teacher one on one each day for 30 minutes to have the extra help with the phonics, which he LOVES going, I think he just likes the attention :) but it's working so I am all for it. Our amazing friend Casey is helping a little each day and she is making more strives with him then I think anyone can - he wants to please her so bad! She is definitely a blessing to us! I really don't know what I would do without her!

Little Miss Paige:
She is having a blast being in school. Her teacher told me she is in her top group and would run things if she let her (her Kindergarten teacher said the same thing ha!). I think we have a little leader in the bunch. She loves writing and her teacher told me she is excited to see where her creative writing takes her as her vocabulary and spelling progresses. At home she write songs and books - it is pretty amazing. She is NOT hard on herself - she just goes with the flow. I love her free spirit and stress free attitude. She also takes everyone's feelings in to account. Especially her brothers. At the beginning of school Trayce was not making 100's on his spelling test and she was making them on the pretest (without effort!). Eric and I call her Mini Tiffany! They came home a couple weeks into school and I asked about the spelling - Trayce tells me (sadly) he missed 2, Paige says oh I think I missed one or two. I didn't pay any mind to it - I went about the evening - when they were taking showers I went through their folders - low and behold Paige made a 100. I went and asked her about it - she said "oh okay I guess I forgot" then she went on to tell me - "don't say anything to bubba I don't want him to be upset". My heart melted and I was so proud of her at that moment! Anytime Trayce says he isn't good at something she is the first person to say well I am not as good as you in math :) So many kids would have wanted to rub it in their siblings face - but not mine - they actually care about each others feelings!

In general I am so proud of both of them and the little people they are turning in to. I am so blessed that I get to be a Mom to them - they truly are the light of my life!Not saying they don't have their moments - but all in all they are such good kids!

We went Dove hunting as a family a couple weekends ago - against Paige and I's will - but Eric was persistent that we go as a family. Low and behold we (all of us) had a blast! I didn't kill a bird, but I was going through bullets like crazy! Trayce killed his first Dove and I think Eric was more excited then Trayce - Eric was jumping around like a wild man! Paige had a blast finding all the birds - she didn't mind at all getting in there and picking up dead birds - she even helped her Daddy clean them when we got back to the camp house!