Parent-Cub Scout Weekend

Dh and the 3 younger kiddoes went for an overnight parent-cub scout weekend. Here are some of the pictures that they took.

SUMMER!

Well it's here and so far the kids seem to be enjoying it. If only for the fact that they get to play on their 'electronic systems' for an hour a day, not just weekends. My 14 and 10 yr olds had 4-H camp for a week- sleepover for my 14 yr old, 8 till 5pm for the 10 year old. I don't trust him to do a 1 week sleep away from home yet. He did a 1 night away on the Friday and we picked him up on Saturday with his brother. This weekend, the 3 younger ones are away on a cub scout parent weekend with their dad, then on Sunday my 14 year old goes away to a church camp for a week. After that, it is Vacation Bible School for 1 week, then I have 1 week to clean and organise my school room, and then it's 1 week away at Wildwood , and then BACHK TO SCHOOL. Not looking forward to that. After the summer, the kids never want to start, they are whiny, they have forgotton almost everything, and the first 3 weeks back are a nightmare. When they were younger, I never gave them more than 6 weeks off in the summer. But I just need a break. Complete time off from school. So they are getting 10 weeks off this summer. And it will be a nightmare starting again. I have some pictures to post about some of what we have been doing so far this summer. I'll try to do this over the weekend when I have a quiet house.

So, we are not required to do any testing in our state, but I do anyway for those just in case.

My twins took the California Achievement Test a few weeks ago and I just got back their results. I looked through the tests and went over it with them. They made a lot of careless mistakes but even with those, they were above average in everything. L was in the 91st percentile for reading vocab, 99th for reading comprehension, 97 for maths computation, 96 for maths concepts and problems, 99 for language mechanics, 80 for language usage and structure and 85 for spelling. This is exactly what I expected for him although I was a little disappointed with his maths scores. I expected 99 for both of these. This was where they made a lot of errors. The 8o percentile for the language usage and structure was not very suprising. We used CLE LA but I found that they were not retaining much with it and added Rod and Staff a few months before the end of the year. We will try to do a bit more grammar this coming year, and with Lively Latin , they should do a bit better next year. R also did exactly as I expected. He is a bit more advanced in Reading and Spelling than L, but retaining those math facts is a problem sometimes. He got 98 percentile in reading Vocab, 99 in reading comprehension, 85 in maths computation(yep!), but 98 in maths concepts and problems. 93 percentile in language mechanics, 80 in Language usage and structure, and 91 percentile in spelling. The percentile scores mean that he did better than that percentage of students in the norm group. The long and short of it all is that they are above average in everything and I haven't ruined them another year.