Capsule night
tonight was capsule night at Tappan Middle School. It's an evening of following the class schedule of your middle schooler. There are 8 classes that they take part in; some only certain days out of the week like orchestra and gym. I found myself a little overwhelmed with all that they have to keep up with: one teacher for 3 classes at three different times, 3 languages (spanish, french, german)they interval through the year. Crazy math that they will be doing this year that if they didn't learn last year they may be in trouble. Just so much stuff! I came home and was so proud of Slade for having his shit together, because man alive I would have had a melt down at his age! He said there are days that he feels a bit stressed but he knows it will only get better and easier once he gets the hang of everything. I'm just so impressed how he went from a kid that would turn in crumpled up papers to a kid that has everything nice and orderly in a trapper keeper type thing that HE requested. WOW! his penmanship is totally legible! When did this happen? he's so at a much better place in this than i was! Right now, Slade is loving his german class and hopes to take it all the way up to highschool. He's really working hard at it too. He will also be playing the bass this year. he's excited about that too. he's on the soccer team that most of his friends from last year are on. This i'm totally shocked about. He hated soccer and refused to play the last 4 years. this summer he was asking about getting on a team and i didn't know about any teams w/ all his friends on or even how it worked for middle school. i get a call in the summer from a murphy's dad asking if slade would like to join their team. they needed enough boys to make a team and slade was all for it. last night was his first practice and he said that all the boys were so much better than him but he didn't mind at all because they were very encouraging and made him feel good. aaahh - he too is blessed with kindred souls! I felt much better about it all because for a moment there I thought I would spare him and everyone from the humiliation of lack of coordination.
He's like an all around geek or probably just a normal kid who can't get enough of different things. I'm just so amazed.
When I got to the auditorium I sat with Millie and we chatted. I'm starting to like that whole crowd of women so much this year. I thought they were a big clique but it doesn't really sound like it. I bumped into Katie and we talked about Eva and Slade. She's always been so interested in how he's doing and feeling. I think if we could arrange a marriage between the two we would. Who knows they might end up together even if we just stay out it. It was nice to see all those folks there adn I even chatted with a former father of an angell student that is now in 7th grade. He made comments about how tappan is an awesome school and how he went there back in the day. It's been nice to hear feed back from these parents and how proud they are of the school. Clint and I were pretty hesitant for slade to even attend it because of how large it is. we figure if it's good enough for the president of the energy company in MI, then it's good enough for us. I had heard a few parents talk about how parent's viewd Angell was like a private school and how kids will go onto private middle school like greenhills after it. I only know of 4 (one the granddaughter of the founder of greenhills) kids from slade's class who went. we thought about it but we thought we would be moving away to WA and by that time it was too late to apply for the scholarship.(no way could we afford $12,000+ a year) Slade wouldn't have had it anyway. He said he wanted to continue on to tappan with his freinds. I think it's going to go very well for him this year. I'm excited for him and I am so so so grateful that everything has worked out like it has.
next week clint will be going to curriculm night at angell for jack.
He's like an all around geek or probably just a normal kid who can't get enough of different things. I'm just so amazed.
When I got to the auditorium I sat with Millie and we chatted. I'm starting to like that whole crowd of women so much this year. I thought they were a big clique but it doesn't really sound like it. I bumped into Katie and we talked about Eva and Slade. She's always been so interested in how he's doing and feeling. I think if we could arrange a marriage between the two we would. Who knows they might end up together even if we just stay out it. It was nice to see all those folks there adn I even chatted with a former father of an angell student that is now in 7th grade. He made comments about how tappan is an awesome school and how he went there back in the day. It's been nice to hear feed back from these parents and how proud they are of the school. Clint and I were pretty hesitant for slade to even attend it because of how large it is. we figure if it's good enough for the president of the energy company in MI, then it's good enough for us. I had heard a few parents talk about how parent's viewd Angell was like a private school and how kids will go onto private middle school like greenhills after it. I only know of 4 (one the granddaughter of the founder of greenhills) kids from slade's class who went. we thought about it but we thought we would be moving away to WA and by that time it was too late to apply for the scholarship.(no way could we afford $12,000+ a year) Slade wouldn't have had it anyway. He said he wanted to continue on to tappan with his freinds. I think it's going to go very well for him this year. I'm excited for him and I am so so so grateful that everything has worked out like it has.
next week clint will be going to curriculm night at angell for jack.
posted by TLC at 11:10 PM
