The retreat

So just over a week ago, my son returned from his 4 day ropes course/community building trip with his classmates. I am so pleased to say that everything seems to have gone well. I did not hear otherwise from his teachers. He seemed to have a really good time. It appears he came home with all his belongings. He didn't starve to death. All in all, I'd wrap that up as pretty successful. Yeah!!

After the trip he has had his first week of "getting to it" school. Homework and expectations have set it. Guess I should have expected a hiccup or two and we had one. An email from his teacher and a "no homework" slip. Seems he spent two nights not doing his lit assignments! Boy did that not make me happy..... So we spent many hours one night trying to catch up. Unfortunately I learned during that time that he also had not read in his novel what he was supposed to have read. He was supposed to get through page 100 by the end of that night and I discovered he was only on page 13!! I had known he was to be reading and had told him the previous two nights how far he was to have gone based on the assignment calendar. The first night he should have read the first 3 chapters. He said to me, "I thought you said the first 3 PAGES?" Please! Are you kidding me?! He knew better. The night we caught up I had to read to him just to move the story along and we still only got to page 50, so he still has lots of reading to do!

Right now are current struggle is him giving us the "I'm not the same as everyone else and you should just accept it" argument. This is not going over well with us. He is trying to use it as an excuse to justify being lazy and unaccountable. Pretty much driving me nuts.

But all in all, so far so good on the Montessori school front. PEACE.