California Fall

Our Fall has been much busier than usual. School is HARD here and that is an understatement. Jackson has had a difficult transition from 3rd grade to 4th grade. It is a big jump. Also, moving to a new school in an elite school district with 37 kids in his class has been challenging. Jack has a "special" learning style. In a structured class he will get straight A's minus handwriting (that will always be a B or even C depending on the teacher). Here in Cali his grades have been all over the map. His teacher seems to be a little more like the teachers I had in Junior High. He promotes a lot of independent learning and gives them a lot of work and homework. With Jack's cute little brain falling in some areas in the Aspergers (high functioning Autism) range, this change has made for a difficult year. He has done so well the last few years that we were taken by surprise. So, we have been working with him night after night for several hours to help him stay organized and help catch him up to where the kids in California are at. He is very smart, yet disorganized. We are working on organization every day. He now is getting A's on almost all of his tests and getting most of his homework turned in. Hopefully he will have a good grade point average despite the early difficulties. He has worked so hard!!

Jack is on the East Lake Village Swim team here in Yorba Linda. He just moved up to the next level (level 3 of 6 six being the best swimmers) and is really doing well. Swim has been a good outlet for him with all of the homework. He was thrilled for the weekend to come this week. His friend Austin invited he and Jon to go wave running down in Dana Point. Jack loves the Ocean. He is a good boogie boarder and would love to take surf lessons. I thought he might be nervous about being out there on a wave runner, but he was quite the dare devil, Jon says. I was so glad that he got to enjoy himself. Life is suppose to be fun when you are only in the 4th grade. :)