Ella continues to do well in kindergarten and at this very moment is being awarded a “principal’s star” in a ceremony in front of the whole school. I’m not sure what she is getting it for but apparently for some outstanding accomplishment. Most of Ella’s accomplishment may be in the sphere of socializing because according to reports and what we can tell at home she has lost interest in working on reading and the re-enforcing the letter sounds. It may be that she is bored with it and hasn’t aquired the maturity, curiousity or discipline to keep it up. When we try to work with her at home on writing skills and the letters she turns her head away in protest. This is usually at the end of the day when she might be tired already. But also Amy has reported a lack of interest on her part at school.
Ella’s strength now is in story-telling. The problem is that no one can really understand the story she tells which usually involves someone saying “noooo” a number of times. Ella was a devil again for Halloween (Netta was a pig for the 3rd time and proud of it!).
The exciting thing was that for the first time Ella was able to walk around to the houses. She didn’t complain and kept right up. There is no doubt in my mind that she wouldn’t have been so enthusiastic if it wasn’t for Netta enthusiasm in running up to everyone’s door and asking for candy. While Netta immediately exclaimed “Trick or treat!”, Ella wanted to step right into everyone’s house — probably looking for the closest chair. She got a little confused about where to put the candy and how many to take but the upside is that she walked about 3 blocks.
Such an improvement over last year! when she couldn’t go at all. Next day she had a great story to tell about in school in which Aba said: “Noooooo!”. (probably b/c he was tired and didn’t want to do much trick or treatin’.)