Eating Healthy

It’s so easy to consume sugar. To make life simple we seem to have fallen into the habit of buying pre-made snacks, muesli bars, and biscuits, even breakfast muesli. On our recent visit to the dentist, the boys have some holes to be filled, so we are trying to improve on a regular brushing and flossing habit, but more than that cut back on those pre-made snacks, replacing sugar with honey on weatbix (I know it would be good to have them plain, but that’s just not going to happen). …AND no more treats for great swimming, or maybe lollipops can be replaced with punnets of blueberries. Anyhow the point is that we got the point and the boys are all on board with this new WAY.

Although we haven’t finished all the diagnostic tests to see where the boys sit (grade level), the signs are promising. Hosea seems to be at a level 4 (word building he passed to level 5), so at this stage it seems he will be skipping grade three and moving straight to grade 4. Malachi passed all reading tests up to grade 8, but he will have to re-do his English test as he didn’t reach grade 5, he should be at least grade 6 (might be that he made some silly mistakes, but he is the most unwell of all of us, and he’s still struggling to sleep at night).
A few more tests to go, should be finished today or tomorrow and hope we receive the work next week – it’s been a slow start to the year. I need not worry though if Hosea is a year ahead of his peers.