Report Card Day

It’s that time of the year again! Report card signing day for all our kids at Al Irsyad school. Since Steve’s students are on their summer vacation, he was able to take that day off. We went to see our kids’ report cards at lunch time so I didn’t have to worry about getting special permission from my boss to go out of campus. First we went to see Hannah’s. Her performance really went down from the previous term. She is not too serious about her studies lately. We are not too serious about pushing our kids studying either. I think she got the fourth place from the last in her class. Steve always said “let them play and enjoy being kids”. The most important thing is to get them interested in learning through reading, not necessarily stuff related to their school. I guess we have succeeded doing that because our kids love reading (other than their school books that is). We spend a lot on buying novels through Scholastic Book Club. In fact we are waiting for the new shipment to arrive in a few weeks.
Then we went to see Harris’ classroom teacher to get his report card. He performed much better than Hannah. He has changed a lot from last year. He is more disciplined according to his teacher.

Yasmin got the first place in form one. I thought she would get 2^nd or 3^rd because I hardly saw her doing homework or reading school books. She prefers reading novels, drawing cartoons, or writing something in my notebook, but never let me see her masterpiece! Currently she’s rereading the Twilight novel (again!). Danial got 2^nd place. He’s the same as Yasmin. He keeps on rereading all the novels he has read until we get him new ones. But then, as soon as we bought him new books, he would finish reading them in a flash! If we keep the pace we are buying books now, we will have to build a huge library someday. Najla is still asking whether she could enter regular school next year. She’s supposed to start schooling in 2011. She wants to be with her brothers and sisters at Al Irsyad. One of the teachers informed Steve that Najla could join the 1^st grade next year but she would not be able to take “UPSR” at the age of 11. That means, she has to be in grade 6 or two years because the state of Pahang doesn’t allow skipping grades anymore. We have to really think about it before we make our decision. Well, there isn’t a need to rush her.