Dictation for 7 year olds???

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 [...]

No more candies!

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 [...]

Taking a Rose to School

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 [...]

Kids today huh?

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 [...]

Getting Richard ready for school.

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 [...]