Month: June 2013

Reading

How good does a first grader really need to read to get a clean A? Leilani reads very well for her age I think. The demands of school an little kids are too high. She was at a small home-based school, as she (and I) did not deal well with the social pressures and bullying (or exclusions) of real school, but even there the demands are “too damn high”.

From the definition of B: …usually demonstrates understanding of context, but needs corrections

What does “A / B/B- * Instructions, direction” stand for? Looks like a funky fraction to me.

Letter to Leilani’s Austrian Class

Leilani went to school last fall in Austria, and her classmates sent her lots of letters. She answered most of their questions, and drew them lots of pictures…