Youngest has completed the 5th grade. Woo! We've even finished his end of year testing as required by the state. He did well. I plan to continue making him read before he gets any Xbox time as a matter of course, because his reading skills are still somewhat lagging (he can do it, but it's been hard for so long that he just assumes it's going to be awful and, well, it isn't once he gets into it. So at this point, I think it's a matter of forced repetition until he realizes it's not so bad after all.)
We might do some math facts work over the summer as well, because there's room for improvement. But still. It's a big happy sigh for him that we're done.
Eldest still has about 5 weeks left of his. He just started Romeo & Juliet in his English class and he doesn't seem to appreciate me dancing around saying, "Do you bite your thumb at me, Sir?" "No, Sir, but I do bite my thumb!"
Ah well. He's never going to love Shakespeare, unfortunately. And he already knows Mom is a big nerd, so really, where's the harm?
I don't think he has liked any of his classes so far this year, so yay? Ha. Not. Welcome to life, buster. It's not always rainbows and puppies.
Anyway, we're all looking forward to lazier summer days. And there's talk of getting an above ground pool to tide us over until we save up for the in ground pool we want. So that'll be fun.
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