Tuesday: old

 Isaac looked rather old this afternoon while he was doing a search on something. 

Parent-teacher conferences were tonight.  Both boys are doing very well.  The biggest difference is that Joshua likes writing and Isaac doesn't.  Joshua needs to add spaces to his writing, but other than that the teacher is happy on how he is progressing.  Isaac's spelling is getting better.  (I've noticed it and his teacher noticed it.)  It's still not great, but he's about in the right spot for where he needs to be in third grade.  There are still some dumb mistakes that he makes, but it's getting there.  He also needs to do more reading aloud.  This one surprised me a little bit.  I've thought his out-loud reading has been fine.  Sometimes the cadence is off a bit, but it's not too bad.  (Some of that is probably because he can't read ahead while talking.  I've noticed I do that quite a bit to help with voices and different emphases, but it's probably an advanced skill.)  Anyway, we'll get it into the rotation homework.  He can read to Joshua, who probably needs a bit more reading to anyway.