By Peter, on September 30th, 2007
I can’t remember so far back but I don’t think that 7-8 year olds were doing such complicated dictation at school. Maybe someone who supervised me at school can can correct me?
Anyway Richard had a difficult time about
a week ago and achieved a 3- out of 5
for his dictation at school.
I can’t go into the details of what the mistakes were because I really have no idea. My Russian reading is OKish with the big letters but the little ones get confusing. I mean take a look at the last word in the picture below right, what the hell is that? Well I can tell you, it says ‘mishi’ which means many mice!
So getting back to the dictation, after getting in trouble from Mum and Grandma Richard put in a fantastic effort and proudly brought home a 5 for signing! Now not only was there a proud kid but also an even prouder Mum and Grandma.
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By Peter, on October 2nd, 2006
This morning Elena walked Richard to school. The usual way it goes is that whoever walks him to school carries his bag until they get close to the school grounds. Then there is a pit stop where he takes of his hat and gloves and puts on his school bag to look ‘cool’ when he arrives.
Today went just as planned except during the pit stop a cute little girl from his class poked her head inbetween Elena and Ricahrd smiling at Richard without saying a word. She then turned and hopped off to school.
Richard with his usual little boy vs little girl aggression said something under his breath. When Elena questioned him about why he isn’t nice to the little girl he said he said “nothing, I’ve just had enough of her and her chocolates and candies every day!”
Aparently her name is Dina and he has complained to Babuliya before that she isn’t a girl she is just Dina.
Let’s wait to see how he likes Dina in 10-12 years!
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By Peter, on September 20th, 2006
This morning on the way out the door to school Richard picked a rose from the vase near the front door and proudly said that he will take it to school (it is pretty normal to take flowers to shcool for various occassions although today wasnt one of them).
With this Babuliya asked ‘will you give it to Katiya?’ [the girl that sits next to him in class]. Without saying a word Richard shoved the rose back in the vase with fantastic negative emotion and left the apartment. Actions speak a thousand words!
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By Peter, on September 11th, 2006
I found this very interesing excercise book the other day when shopping for Richards new school books. Amongst the covers of racing cars and nice garden settings I found a new fad in animal covers. One part of the animal is made from material that feels like the animal. There were rabit ones that felt like rabbits, cats like cats, dogs like dogs ect, and then this one. . .
Now we wonder why kids today have bad attitudes?
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By Peter, on August 30th, 2006
Well it is that time in life to leave the comfort of home and the easy life in pre-school and head off to school. For Mum and Dad this was a major process. After deciding against the English school options in Moscow (after negative feedback from various sources) we settled on Russian schools with English as a second language from the early years. We found school Arbat 1234 which has English from the 2nd grade. They even have kids who started there with no Russian skills at all!
After a scary interview with the director where Richard clammed up only managing to wisper a few answers to the easiest of questions we took a look at the sports hall. The director was searching for other skills in the kid which may make up for his apparent lack of speaking skills and then we found English. As soon as this was known we were in, with only the medical exams to go!
So off to the clinic to get a battery of tests done not unlike the ones recently done in Baku for his citizenship although in Moscow the surrounds were much more inviting. Passing the tests in flying colours we moved on to see the psychiatrist to get an all clear on his preparedness for shchool. This is a mandetory step for kids under 6.5yo in Moscow even though the kids can go to shchool from 5yo here.
New shoes, uniform, books, bag, and suit for the first big day!
Just a matter of waiting now. Roll on September 1st!
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Anyway Richard had a difficult time about
So getting back to the dictation, after getting in trouble from Mum and Grandma Richard put in a fantastic effort and proudly brought home a 5 for signing! Now not only was there a proud kid but also an even prouder Mum and Grandma.
