Rana is officially 6 & 3/4!
This week, she's hosting the classroom pet penguin, Pete.
He accompanied her to a birthday party at a local indoor play
area and took part in lots our family activities this weekend.
Rana has figured out first grade:
She's keeping track of her school work and homework,
mastering her spelling words and starting to read,
rapidly solving math problems, learning about money
and how to tell time, teaching us interesting scientific
facts about the human body, and much, much more.
Interestingly enough, Rana is reading and spelling better
in German, even though her English is still generally her
stronger language. German phonics are much more clear-cut,
so it is easier to sound words out in German. Plus, the school
devotes a little more time (60%) to German and the students
speak German to each other. We're curious to see
how things develop as time goes on.
While Rana struggles sometimes because she doesn't
have one or two best friends with whom she always
likes to play, she has lots of friends and has made a
long list of everyone she would like to invite over to our
house for playdates and/or to her birthday party in June.
Guess we'd better start planning now, huh Rana!?!