Another school year coming to an end......Adi will be in second grade soon. Time flies so fast......
End of the school year means progress reports, achievement awards and test scores. Adi repeated his good performance from previous year and got the $800 scholarship for scoring good in the standardized tests( these run much along the lines of the GREs and GMATs, with a multiple choice test comprising of math, reading comprehension, logical thinking etc). In addition he also got an achievement certificate for getting over 90% in all regular class tests( much like the unit tests, half yearlies etc). US school system gives grades rather than a rank system, so multiple kids can get the same grade, which in one sense lessens the stress factor. Challenger school shuffles the students each year, much like the Indian school system, with your typical nerds in the A section etc..., so close to half kids in Adi's class got the awards, unlike last year where he was one of 3. Challenger is the closest to Indian style of teaching in US :-)
One surprise( at least for me) award Aditya got was the presidential fitness badge. This is a physical fitness evaluation for all school kids, and based on your level, you get the badge. Apparently it involves doing a certain number of sit-ups, push ups, running a certain distance etc within a certain specified amount of time. He was one of the 3 kids in the class to get this badge, the two other being girls named Maithili and Kavya. It was surprising, but again not too surprising now that I think about it, that the 3 puniest kids in the class were the ones to get the badge. Maithili is the thinnest in his class girls and Adi is the puniest among the boys :-)
Of course end of school year also means, horror......SUMMER VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6 comments:
good show, Sunny!
i guess u'll be needing a new book shelf kuppakka!! why dont u just get him a kindle??
Or are u planning to buy a new video gaming gadget? (i dont know of any new ones- not found at your place - being released though)
why dont you send him places holidaying?
Very impressive Adi!
@Mruduls, he already has all possible gadgets to occupy his time: A Nintendo DS, A Nintendo Wii, An XBOX 360, an iPAD, a Blackberry Playbook tablet and a computer to play games. So enough gadgets!!!!! I must say though, he does stick to the rule of "no electronics on weekdays" and spends entire Saturday doing outside the house stuff, so he tends to spend relatively few hours on the gadgets.
I do need to buy him a few more books, and his bookshelf does keep expanding. He recently finished abridged versions of 20,000 leagues under the sea, King Solomon's mines, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Treasure Island, Oliver Twist and Gulliver's travels. They were SUPPOSED TO BE SUMMER READING,grrr.........
@Viswam Babai, he is going to India for 3-weeks for holidays. And of course summer camps are all about fun, spending the whole day playing, so he should be covered :-)
@Anna and Poonam: Congrats have been passed on!!!!!!
like mother like son (i guess)... :-)
pdn how many times did u have to say 'grrrrrrr grrrr cant stop saying grrr' because kuppakka did something like this??
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