Well, DD (1st grd) got a lot of writing practice where she really stretched herself (tg for homeschool Fridays because at school she keeps it short). She jumped back to more advanced chapter books. She seems to be progressing ok in math... But she's dragging her heels on completing the repetitive work at school. Copying out spelling words, or writing sentences (they do a different task each day), etc. She has a hard time focusing with so much going on around her. At least she got to do some fun stuff with her long term sub. More creative stuff, so that was a good balance with her more mathy, very particular regular teacher. She's very excited about all the things we could learn together over the summer, which is great but shows me that school really just drags for her. Next year we're going to hash it all out right from the start... But at least she'll avoid a long term maternity sub for the first time! The sub this year was just really getting her, the first person to really do so, when she left. DD complains about kids not focusing and the poems being silly (vs Dickinson, say), but she still loves it and cries when I mention full time homeschooling (when the easy math was bugging her or as we figure out where we can afford to live, ugh).
