Making the Grade

In the middle of all the drama with our air conditioner I forgot to mention something significant for Lily.  She got her Q3 grades on Friday.  She is at grade level in everything except math and art.  She got a 3* in math and a 4 in art.  For those who don't have the secret decoder ring, that means that she is above grade level in math and exceptional at art.  I'm still not seeing what her art teacher sees, but she is the pro.

Amanda and I found it remarkable that the principal hand-wrote a note on Lily's report card.  I've got to think that he did that for all the students.  His advice was that Lily should keep practicing her spelling.  Lily is quite good at writing stories and generally aces all of the spelling pre-tests on Thursday, but she gets a little unfocused when it comes time to write out stories.  She is also a bit resistant to practice old words as she doesn't seem to think it is necessary.  We'll work on it though.