School Days

Third grade has been a great year for Alex so far!  They've been doing lots of cool things in class, like observing beetles and crayfish, searching for the Yeti in Math, writing a Famous Person biography (Alex is writing his on Leonardo da Vinci), and broomball and boot hockey in Gym.  They also went to a Contra Tiempo dance performance at the Ordway and Joe was able to go as a chaperone (both Joe and Alex gave the performance rave reviews!)

It's also Read-a-thon month at his school!  This year's theme is James and the Giant Peach, which Alex thinks is pretty cool since he's read the book and we saw the play at Stages Theater this fall.  He set a goal of 1,680 minutes (60 minutes a day) and has been working hard to make his goal!  He already has over 1,600 minutes and 4 more days to make it.  We love our awesome reader!

 Here's a video he made to ask people to donate to his Read-a-thon:

To donate:  https://givemn.org/fundraiser/alexs-2015-read-a-thon54e2ba1a698d0

Alex took a beginning Ukulele class after school in the fall and really enjoyed it, so we signed him up for the second class this winter.  He's still having fun with it, and really improving too.  He's been practicing switching between chords and is getting the hang of where to put his fingers.  He already asked his teacher  when the next class is!!

Too cute!