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" It's his vertebrae and this at the bottom is his coccyx." Love it!!
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it. — L.M. Montgomery
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DS7 had to read his rough draft for his research paper in science today, out loud in front of the class. He was terrified. All the way to school he lamented his teachers decision. It would have been funny if he hadn't been so pathetic.
He did a great job according to his teacher, got a round of applause from his class and told me when I picked him up that it was about time that he "stopped being such a baby and start working on his fears".
I'm a proud momma! Wonder if this means we can revisit swimming lessons?
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More 3 yr old artwork. �He'll be 3 on Tuesday. �He drew "himself" (so he told me). �Hey, it has a head, a belly, two arms, two hands, two feet, oops only one leg, and a hat! �Then he gave me a blank paper and asked me to show him something new. I said how 'bout a boat? �Here he tried to copy a boat. � http://i945.photobucket.com/albums/ad296/Hablame_today/8a3d81ca.jpghttp://i945.photobucket.com/albums/ad296/Hablame_today/97dfb0c6.jpg
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That first one is interesting! I love looking at kid art. My now five-year-old started making some cute, whimsical stuff when he was 2-3, which I started recording: (an animal he called the "snail chicken") http://photos.smugmug.com/403571997_vvkVf-L.jpg (tough to see because the toy was breaking down) http:/photos.smugmug.com/403569411_Y8DY5-L.jpg (yes, another snail, again with feet  ) http://photos.smugmug.com/409021825_97nAs-L.jpg http://photos.smugmug.com/440759753_3wkHj-L.jpg(I believe those are legs, not shoulders) http://photos.smugmug.com/410300905_ma54V-L.jpg (a "squid monster") http://photos.smugmug.com/487042705_gGTFC-L.jpg (a rocket ship on a launch pad) http://www.smugmug.com/635135163_UywaT-L.jpg (a walking monster, with IIRC a piece of poop coming out of its butt  ) http://www.smugmug.com/635134731_888Ne-M.jpg My favorite one of all from when he was 3 was basically the rediscovered form of Fritz the Cat, but I never got around to taking pictures of that, or some of the other coolest ones from back then. Later, he started doing simple line drawings on paper, I suspect so he'd have an excuse to color them in (I don't usually let him color): This is supposedly a picture of me-- I don't think this is my best angle: http://www.smugmug.com/869577653_stixq-L.jpgHe initially described this as a mummy baby, but later switched to saying it was his baby brother: http://www.smugmug.com/869577123_yhKVq-L.jpgHe first drew this one, then another picture of a very long-legged character, standing next to a much shorter fruit tree, weeping because he couldn't reach down to the fruit (I don't know what happened to that one unfortunately): http://www.smugmug.com/IMG4333/869576833_PWLv2-L.jpgA dancing alien: http://www.smugmug.com/875812105_L6n33-L.jpghttp://www.smugmug.com/869576432_ZWZbf-L.jpg
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He's got a great imagination lucounu. Using snapfish.com or kodakgallery.com you can store the pictures and eventually have a book printed as a souvenir for his wedding present. If you lay it out like a yearbook you can fit years worth of drawings nicely onto fewer pages.
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Thanks, La Texican! I think his sense of whimsy and heart are actually his two best qualities, or at least the most endearing ones. That's very useful to know about the layout functions at those sites. It would be fun to start a thread on child art.
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My little train-obsessed DS (25 months) has fallen in love with the book "The Little Engine that Could." He wants us to read it to him constantly. Tonight, he dragged DH to the couch to read to him (he says very few words) but wouldn't sit on his lap. As DH read the book, DS took his wooden train track pieces and made a track that hung over the edge of the coffee table onto the floor. When they got to the part in the story where the little blue engine began to pull the train up the mountain he selected his blue train and two cargo cars and proceeded to drive them up his 'mountain' as he said "I dink I dan, I dink I dan!"
Unfortunately the track collapsed as he was almost to the top and he became very upset. I am still astounded that he understood the story as well as he did. I thought he just liked it because it had a train in it!
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We had DD7's parent-teacher conference tonight, and got the results of her beginning-of-year testing.
STAR reading, GE 6.3
OCCT (Oklahoma benchmark - this is the end of year proficiency exam, but administered as a pre-test): Low 60s in both math and reading. As a comparison, the class average on the pretest was in the 30s, random guessing would be expected to produce 25, and the prior year's end-of-3rd graders averaged a 75 in math and 78 in reading.
The STAR was given 2 weeks after the "have to get 90% right to skip 2nd grade" test, and the OCCT 4 weeks after. She got a 92% on each. I think it's safe to conclude that they set the grade-skip bar far, far higher than "performs as well as the average kid who completed the grade to be skipped."
Also, wow am I glad we skipped her.
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Have you gotten him a train set?
Mr W got his first train set when he was 18 months. He went nuts!
He could barely handle the speed control and it took a week for him to get the dexterity to get the train on the tracks. He'd play it for hours!!! I got so sick of it that I put it up for a few days..he finally wore out the engine to where I could not repair it.
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