A Challenge!

A week ago, J's teacher sent home a packet of worksheets. She said she'd gotten them from a friend of hers who teaches first grade and uses them to challenge the kids who are a bit ahead in her classes.

J is eating them up! He did a sheet about long and short vowel sounds, and when he had to choose a word for a long U and long O, he chose, on his own, November and vocabulary. Usually, he tries to pick the shortest words he can think of so he doesn't have to write so much (exerting much more effort to think of the short words than it would take to just write a slightly longer one!)

And when he was done, he suggested that the page needed to be colored, which he finished under his own willpower and direction.

He finished a crossword-type page in about 3 minutes, all by himself. My jaw about hit the floor! What, no nagging?

Can you hear my sigh of relief? It seems he really was bored with the regular kindergarten homework.

And you should have seen his eyes when his teacher told us that there's a new packet for each month, and that will be his own "special" homework from now on. I think we're all happy about this new arrangement!