Schooling

Pages from Clara's school "portfolio".

She chose the pages from her workbooks to show us some of her work throughout the year.

What does "official" schooling do with our kids... Today Oscar (still 3 for another few days) told us that he has 11 Lego people and wants to play "Störtebeker" (a pirate theater play) with them. He needs two people to be the Störtebekers (I guess one is an understudy?). Chris asked: "If you have eleven people, and two are Störtebekers, how many are NOT Störtebekers?" - Immediate answer: "9!" It made us think about the fact that Clara's confidence in her math abilities has decreased in the first year at school, rather than increased... and it reminded me of the recent article about how many Americans do complicated math tasks when they need it in their every-day life, but cannot solve the same problems on paper.  Strange.

School vacation is almost over - Clara is on a trip with her Opa this week, and next week it will be back to school for her! She's very excited to be back with her friends, so I think the break was definitely long enough.

Oscar misses his sister terribly. She's gone only one day now but he told a friend's mom that she has been away "SOOOO long" already.

And of course, we're getting very very excited for Oscar's birthday on Saturday. Here are the kids getting ready for Oscar's friend's (Lilli's) pirate birthday party a week ago.