First month of school

Older two girls have made it through the first month of school and all their Fall activities so far.

Eliana started fourth grade. She has already made over 12 points taking the accelerated math tests. Her teacher gives them treats for a certain number of 100s on those tests which is right up Ellie's alley. She has to have that extra incentive but once she has an incentive you are in trouble because she will be determined to reach the goal.

She also got chosen to be on the Principal Advisory committee for her class at school. They do different community service projects throughout the year.

Outside of school, she is playing Fall soccer. Her team has had two games and totally ran over both teams they played against. (I hate when the teams ended up being unevenly matched. They try so hard to get a good mix of players on each team - previous players with new players, previous level with those who have played this level - but sometimes one team just ends up with all the natural talent.) She scored a goal in one game and stopped a goal in the other game. They have one more team they haven't played yet. Hopefully that team will have a bit more of the natural talent floating around or the other teams will get into their rhythm. They rotate the teams for a total of 8-10 games per season but don't play outside our county with this league.

She is still doing girl scouts. She moved up to Junior level this year. The troop is still juggling new girls but there are definitely a lot of new girls at her level. So the juniors will be a great group this year.

Alexis is also still doing girl scouts. Enough girls moved up to her level and a few new joined that Cadettes will have a decent group this time too.

She's enjoying middle school. She has picked the French Horn as her instrument in band. We chose to do the school rental because buying and music shop rental is soooo expensive. If she sticks with it, we'll consider other options. They haven't actually started learning to play yet as they have to wait until all or at least most of the students have their instruments. So I'll have to update on how this goes later.

Alexis also has two super tiny parts in the community theater play - Willy Wonka Jr. She is a candy kid and a squirrel. We probably won't be able to let her do this again because of band. =(

Both girls are also doing the church's children's' choir. They always enjoy doing the Christmas play. They usually get speaking parts and sometimes a solo song or part of a song.

Coming up this month, Alexis will be going to a STEM conference at MTSU for having high TCAP scores in math/science. I think she will enjoy that.

I can't think of anything else going on at the moment. So more next time I get "chatty".