As usual, I was really looking forward to Ezra’s Celebration of Learning this week; I love seeing all of the students’ work up on the walls, going over what he does at school each day, and getting the reports from the teachers on how he’s doing academically. In the past Ezra has seemed to enjoy COL, too, proudly showing off his work and the different jobs he does at school. Sadly, not so much this time. I’m not sure what set him off as he seemed fine when we got to school, but he was in no mood to show us anything. Regardless, I took some pictures for posterity.
Things didn’t start off too badly. He read a little of his journal to us.
Here’s his book review — blown up as a display on the wall.
And his picture and notes about Jabuti.
He also showed us his spelling book, but was clearly losing his patience.
So we moved on to his Math/Projects class. This face about sums up how things were going.
He showed us the state map puzzle and how he puts it together without the board.
And built a plane out of Lincoln Logs.
He had an art project up on the wall that was fun — all of the students did Escher-inspired tessellations. Ezra’s was a Pack of Sea Monsters.
Finally, we quit torturing him and left. I snapped a picture of his class picture on the way out.
He’d chosen Pie ‘n’ Burger for his post-COL celebration and was finally sort of himself about half-way through. But he had trouble mustering up excitement for anything — even this extra-long french fry he insisted I take a picture of.
He did enjoy his apple pie a la mode.
Finn had blueberry.
Despite the less-than-celebratory mood, we were very happy to see that Ezra’s doing well academically and has made great progress this year. Now, I think we’re all ready for summer to begin.