Things at school are finally coming together for Tori, and
she is just zooming along. She has been reading books and taking AR tests, more
than I thought. She also knows her spelling words this week. Math is not so
easy. But she is coming along in that too. The daily drop-in-the-bucket math
sheets have stopped, and that seems to have improved her attitude. She is
finally getting into multiplication and division. We are not sure how they are
teaching that, so we are just helping however we can. She keeps saying seven
rows of five, so they must be teaching them to group the numbers together
rather than just memorize the multiplication tables. Interesting the ways they
teach math now.
Tori is looking forward to Christmas, and hopefully, the
arrival of a new American Girl doll that she intends to name Emily. She already
has a doll named Emma. She lives under her loft bed in her own room. She has a
bunk bed and is waiting for her sister to come. Here’s hoping Santa has a doll
under the tree for Tori on Christmas Day.
