"Mr. Sharma earns Rs. 5280 per month and Mrs. Sharma earns Rs. 3755. If they spend Rs. 4684 per month, how much do they save every month?"This was one of the questions in Asha's math work. I know it because parents end up learning the entire syllabus assigned to their children.
Yesterday was the last day of 2 weeks of 'final exams' to end the first term/semester of our kids school year. Sheba has done a superb job helping Asha and Enoch both revise and learn for these tests. I came in at the very end of the process and am amazed at the amounts that Asha has to know - and at how confident she was about it all.
The picture shows Asha and Enoch just before they went to catch the bus on their last day of the exams. They have done such a good job at being great kids!
Today is the first day of their 3 week holidays - and already Asha wants to do her vacation project: 'understanding the Dodo.' At the end of this vacation she is to submit a 10 page report on that fine extinct bird. She is excited about going to the school library and reading the books there.
Enoch has benefited from being around Asha from the beginning. Ask him what question was on the test and he will say: "I forgot". But he certainly doesn't seem to forget when it actually comes to writing. I am amazed at how these two are able to navigate their early educational experiences - I guess having started school at 3 and 2.5 respectively may mean that they are attuned, but still...
Sheba tells me that if Enoch does have a problem with a question, or thinks he got something wrong he will tell it. Its hard for me to even imagine that - esp. as I was certainly not that way in my early schooling - but the results of both of the kids so far put them very much in the upper brackets of their classes.
So now our kids have traversed 3.5 and 1.5 years of their primary school journey. What lies ahead?
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Well - spending their holidays for one. We have three action-packed weeks lined up. At the end of next week (over the main diwali time) our group of house-fellowships is running its annual family camp in Khandala (Oct 17-19). We expect about 250 or so wonderful folks spending 3 days of learning, talking, praying, playing with each other.
The next weekend is our Jeevan Sahara Kendra family bible camp at Lonavala (23-25th Oct). About 80 odd people will be together for a powerful 2 days. We are excited that our dear friends John and Nalini Gabriel - and their wonderful daughters Nikita and Jasper will be with us for this time.
On the night we return from the JSK camp - we as a family are off on a 10 day journey - to Asha's birthplace: the Nav Jivan Hospital in Satbarwa, Jharkhand state. Our train leaves Mumbai at 12.30 AM on the 26th! We have only been back to Nav Jivan once in the 8 years since we left - and yearn to meet Dr. Cherring and our other dear friends there. On the return journey we are also stopping in for a day in Rourkela, Orissa - the city where Sheba was born and brought up. We hope to meet Bro. John V. Rao - the 80+ elder of Sheba's home fellowship as well as many of Sheba's childhood friends - and show Asha and Enoch where their Mummy grew up.
We arrive (God willing) back at 3 AM on the 3 of November. The school bus will pick Asha and Enoch up at 12.30 PM for the beginning of the new term at Vasant Vihar High School.
Its a great life.
Well - spending their holidays for one. We have three action-packed weeks lined up. At the end of next week (over the main diwali time) our group of house-fellowships is running its annual family camp in Khandala (Oct 17-19). We expect about 250 or so wonderful folks spending 3 days of learning, talking, praying, playing with each other.
The next weekend is our Jeevan Sahara Kendra family bible camp at Lonavala (23-25th Oct). About 80 odd people will be together for a powerful 2 days. We are excited that our dear friends John and Nalini Gabriel - and their wonderful daughters Nikita and Jasper will be with us for this time.
On the night we return from the JSK camp - we as a family are off on a 10 day journey - to Asha's birthplace: the Nav Jivan Hospital in Satbarwa, Jharkhand state. Our train leaves Mumbai at 12.30 AM on the 26th! We have only been back to Nav Jivan once in the 8 years since we left - and yearn to meet Dr. Cherring and our other dear friends there. On the return journey we are also stopping in for a day in Rourkela, Orissa - the city where Sheba was born and brought up. We hope to meet Bro. John V. Rao - the 80+ elder of Sheba's home fellowship as well as many of Sheba's childhood friends - and show Asha and Enoch where their Mummy grew up.
We arrive (God willing) back at 3 AM on the 3 of November. The school bus will pick Asha and Enoch up at 12.30 PM for the beginning of the new term at Vasant Vihar High School.
Its a great life.
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