On March 23, 2014, Michael had his first practice track meet at Bishop Shanahan High School. Michael loves running as a "Pee Wee" in track, and we love socializing with the parents in the stands while he runs! :)
Here's Michael, all business, for the 200m:
This is where the kid cut into his lane, which really threw Michael for a loop:
He couldn't ever get around the kid, and Michael ended up with a 20.74 second 200m run.
Last year, Michael's worst race was the 800m. It was just too long! He would skip, talk to his friends/etc.
Not this year:
There's Michael pulling in the lead.
Here he is in the lead after the first quarter lap:
This is where my neighbor, Kelly, said, "Hurry! Take the picture while he's still in the lead and before he stops running because he's tired!"
Michael, still in the lead, finishing up the 2nd lap and 800m:
Michael with Daddy after finishing 1st in the 800m!!
CRAZY!
This track meet was smaller than most. Only about half the schools were there, but we'll take it! Can't wait to see how he does when there are twice as many runners.
He's doing very well with his sports, but his school assessment folders have been less than stellar. I have a teacher/parent conference scheduled and will be asking lots of questions! One of which I wonder if he is involved in too many extracurricular activities. We have lots of practices, but we have it down pretty well this year since we had the same last year.
But last year, he did fine in school! I'm going to say that all the snow days led to less practice, which led to a not so great performance on his assessment tests. :( But I will find out what's going on! In the end, I need to do more at home for him. I've kind of let the teachers do the teaching, but I can see now that I need to be much more involved with teaching him the material at home, including the material for the next lessons. I used to be very on top of all that stuff through Kindergarten, and this has shown me that I have really slacked off in that regard!
