Becky

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Today, Becky brought home her graded math test from yesterday.  She got 94%.  Also, she had spelling and vocabulary tests today and to 100% on both.  Ever since she started the 2nd grade, her worst grade was one math test back in late October where she got 80% (8 wrong out of 40 problems).  All her Social Studies tests and Language arts were 100%.  Spelling very rarely she gets one word wrong, generally it is 100%.  Math is over 92% always. 

I don't think she is being challenged enough in school.  Last night before she went to bed she asked me to email Sabrina the website where she can practice her multiplication.  She started reading more.  Her reading in general is very good.  I can definitely see the difference from earlier this year.  Sveta got her two books for New Year from the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series.  She read them both.  She is now reading a book about Mia Hamm for her school book presentation.  She is reading books to Hannah on days when I don't have time to read to her and helps Hannah review her sight words. 

The whole summer she was scared of having to learn to write cursive in 2nd grade and now she thinks it is the best thing in the world.  Every piece of paper in our house is scribbled with her notes in cursive.  She is bored in her school art class and is creating her own art and craft projects at home.  This week she decorated her whole room with her projects.  Earlier this week she presented Adam and I with our own teddy bears that she drew, colored, and cut out. Before that we got a hedgehog Hegy made out of play dough. She is very creative. 

She gets excited about any kind of extra class, project, and presentation, anything that she gets to do.  This week in school they had archeological presentation and they got to create their own "fossils" out of clay (like baby foot prints).  She brought home a "fossil" of squirrel paw print and spend half hour telling me about it.

Last week she was watching Science Channel on TV.  The space exploration program was on.  She came running to me screaming; "Mommy, I know who was the first man on the moon - Uree Gagaree" (that is how she spelled it).  We got into an hour long discussion about Gagarin being the first man in space, Armstrong being the first man on the moon, the evolution of space explorations and satellites, orbits, space stations, etc.  After all of that she scribbled some notes on piece of paper in her best cursive and sealed them in the envelope.  She said she will give them to her teacher.  Learning that Yuri Gagarin was Russian was the best piece of news to her. 

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