My weekend update, By Scooter

One of the ways in which I am torturing my daughter is in taking advantage of any and all extra-credit opportunities at school. One of them is writing a weekend update. It's due on Monday, and it's just a personal recap of what my third grader experienced over the weekend. I'm sure it not only helps her put thoughts on paper, but it can also give her teacher valuable insight into what's going on in her students' lives.

This weekend, Scooter did the following:
Thurs - no school. Went to Ben's Brazilian jiujitsu class at lunch time. Went to a park with Ben and her brother. Last soccer practice of the season. Worked on her workbook, which is a supplemental age-appropriate work book that we got her to use over the summer, but she either never took it to her dad's or they didn't do it together - or at all.
Fri - no school. Practiced writing everyone's name in cursive. Went on some math websites and played some math games. Played with her brother
Sat - Waffles and sausage for breakfast! Last soccer game of the season in the rain, followed by a pizza party to celebrate the end of the season. Each of the girls got a trophy, and the coaches each got an engraved water bottle. That afternoon, we went to the library and the grocery store. I decided to take my change jar in so we could use their change machine and then pay for the groceries with the cash we'd get. Except the change machine required a 10% fee. No way. We instead used the self-check out, which meant we plugged in $40 worth of quarters one by one before I gave up and paid the rest with my credit card.
Sun - we hiked to the stone house in Forest Park. We planned and put together Scooter's terrarium (cactus and succulents). We watched a lot of football and had chili.

Scooter's extra credit consisted of the following:
She mentioned working on her work book. She mentioned practicing everyone's name in cursive. She detailed going to the grocery store and trying to use change to pay for our groceries. Then "mom didn't have enough money to pay for our food, so she used a credit card." The grocery visit coupled with me running out of money took up 1/2 the page.

Although we encouraged Scooter to write about things her teacher might find interesting, I was kind of hoping she'd stick to terrariums and hiking...