it's hard 2 be five!

Andrew is doing great in school! I finally spoke with his ESL teacher today. She says he is doing well with english and is losing a lot of his spanish. She encouraged us to continue using spanish vocabulary or letting the children watch dvds in spanish. We would like the children to be bilingual. We would like to be bilingual! We have talked about getting the Rosetta Stone series to help us. The ESL teacher stated she was going to recommend he be tested for speech therapy. He is having difficulty putting the sounds together. The ESL teacher said it was not a language barrier issue, but speech, but could easily be resolved with some speech therapy. The person who tests for that called today.

Our first school family project: Andrew will participate in the Reading Fair. Actually, it is required to do a project for his grade. How does a Kindergartener do a project? So, we are going to do it as a family project. There is a category for that. We have chosen Jamie Lee Curtis's book, It's Hard to be Five, Learning to Work My Control Panel. I love her books. And her illustrator, Laura Cornell, is a great artist. It should not be too difficult. We will take pics and post once we complete it. We are starting on it this weekend.

Mucho Dinero (sp) = The children have started earning pennies for chores, positive attitudes, homework, school behaviors, kind acts, and more. They are also learning that they have to pay for extras and negative behaviors. We have piggy banks for Andrew and Tatiana. We have to get Diego one. They are hard to find! Andrew has used his money to buy a chair to go with Tatiana's table; it only cost 25 cents + good behavior. That was a lot for him, but he didn't think twice about it. Andrew readily gives to the church ministry each Sunday out of his bank. Tatiana is more reserve. Diego usually loses his money by Sunday! They are cute when they run to the front of the church and throw their change in the baskets!

Diego had a fever this evening - 101.5. We have been giving him Ibuprofen/Tylenol. It has went down a degree. Will keep you posted.