Madi gave her speech yesterday. She was very paced and did a great job reading it. However, the girl she was up against also did a great job. All of the third, fourth and fifth grade students voted yesterday afternoon. Today they announced the students who earned the positions. Madi will still be a member of Student Council, but she did not get the position of secretary. She was bummed and didn't talk too much about it.
Hasn't been a really great week for her. She's been quite difficult and challenging. She is excited that you are coming back, but is very uncertain as to what exactly will happen when you get back. She started to make some good choices in friends, but today decided to stop being a part of a group that she and two other girls created called "Club Epic." The girl who won secretary and the other girl (who voted for the other girl) were the other two girls in the club. Madi said she was trying to help one of the girls solve the issue of the fact that they invited too many kids into the club so it was too big. The other girl didn't want her help and it was all totally confusing. I told her that it was best that they didn't do it as it was clique-ish and left people out and they made it a mess by inviting other kids and then deciding that they shouldn't have that many kids in the group. I heard a bit about it after school and just told her it would have been best not to get involved in things that exclude others.
The same group of girls came into my room to "sit and talk" about their club. I had a short meeting so I was gone for about 20 minutes. Come to find out that Madi and her friends played tag in my room for 15 minutes instead of "sitting and talking." I was irate. Between the cost of equipment in my room and the fact that I trusted them to "sit and talk," my trust in her making the right choices while I am out of my room was taken away. So she is no longer allowed to have friends in the room after school for a while. Riley was involved in it for a few minutes and she lost the privilege of having her friend in the room as well. They played and then went on the computers. Madi and her friends continued to chase repeatedly. Riley cried and apologized and said sorry a million times. Madi said nothing - still has not apologized and tried to blame Riley for making them play tag. Ugh. Riley wasn't innocent, but she definitely did not take responsibility for doing it herself. It just gets so old dealing with the blame game.
There was some good news today - She did get her progress report today - had all A's! Did great there. Two A's were as a result of doing her extra credit projects - in science and in math. Without them, she would have B's. Very glad she did the projects!! This weekend we'll be going to Michael and Jenny's house to celebrate the twins' birthday so we'll be gone most of Saturday. She can work on her project after school each day and will need to finish it by Monday as it has to be turned in next week. The projects she has are really interesting and fun, but it is a beating to try to get her to work on them and do her best. It's easy if she just does it sloppy and fast. The hard part is trying to motivate her to actually work on them while doing the best she can.
No comments:
Post a Comment