I wanted to get into the habit of providing quarterly evaluations for Oscar for our records and to give him some feedback on how things are going. I hemmed and hawed about percentages, numbers, letter grades, and so on, and finally decided just to write out an evaluation in text. So, for example, in handwriting (the subject I guess he'd care the least about his evaluation winding up on the Internet),
In 9 weeks, Oscar has completed Lessons 1-6 as
assigned. His writing is legible and quite neat when he takes care,
less neat when he hurries. He needs practice on capital letters and
on connecting the letters b, o, v, r, w with the other letters.
I was glad I took the time to do it, because the act of reflecting on how much we've accomplished in nine weeks made me feel a lot better about making the last two weeks half-weeks so I could clean my house. Also, actually examining our progress instead of relying on my vague unstated impressions helped me find a couple of places where we have quite a bit of room for improvement. For example, based on how Latin is going, I've decided to slow down and do one lesson in two weeks rather than one. And I've realized we ought to be doing math faster, so I'm going to buckle down and try for four lessons per week.
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