This was a big Court of Honor for Avery he earned his Tender Foot, First Class, and Second Class rank advancements and many Merritt badges. We had to motivate Avery a bit over the summer by having him earn T.V. and game time. He had gotten into a bad habit of only doing chores and electronics at the start of the summer this last year. But he stepped up and made his life more productive.
Below is a picture of a black eye Avery got a few days ago. He was in his speech and drama class performing a Star Wars play his group had come up with and was hit with one of the light sabers. Avery enjoys school and is good at it. He was bumped up to 9th grade math 5 weeks into this school year. He entered 9th grade math on a Monday and the very next class was a test, he scored 65% which isn't bad considering he hadn't been present for the class. The teacher allowed him to make it up and he ended up with a 95% after only getting about an hour and half of tutoring from his dad. While we are very proud of Avery and all his accomplishments there are times he lets us down. For example, he saved an entire months worth of math homework for one evening. It was homework that was online. He is lucky his dad was willing to stay up with him until midnight in case he needed help. He was able to getting 33 sections of the 38 sections done in about six hours. He says he has learned his lesson and didn't like working on math for 6 hours straight, I hope he did. Anyhow, he is a good kid and friends have become more important to him and it is nice to see him being more social and just enjoying himself. Oh and I should add that he is doing Science Club this year since there isn't a chess club. He seems to be enjoying it and many of his friends go with him. |
