Vyom started 2nd Grade in Harker School on August 25th 2014. He has been a perfect ideal kid and we could not have asked for better.
Some noteworthy achievements that Vyom has accomplished are:
Some noteworthy achievements that Vyom has accomplished are:
Vyom Vidyarthi – #94, rated 1052 (August 2014 top 100 chess players in USA in age category 7 and under) - We learned about this on Patrika's B'day, so obviously it made her day!!!
Did awesome in ERB Testing for 1st Grade with scoring mostly 100% in Math and Language arts..
His passion for playing Chess continues and is motivated to do better. He is learning Chess from Studygascar and also from Bay Area Chess as part of after school program.
Vyom is also learning Tennis for past 3 months with a new coach Ashvin Soin. He takes both private and group lessons.
Vyom also is enjoying swim lessons in Saratoga Star Aquatics. He is in Green level and has learned Freestyle, Butterfly, breast stroke and back stroke.
This past summer, he had a good time with both grandparents. He also read 36+ books. He attended the Harker summer camp for 1st session and also took daily swim lessons. He enjoyed watched the soccer world cup and supporting USA first and then Argentina. He was a bit sad on Argentina loosing the finals against Germany. We did get in the Messi shirt/short from Omya's side for Rakhi. His love for cricket still exists. He loves to play in the backyard.
Another achievement that Vyom has was to move to P3 level in Language arts at Harker at end of 1st Grade.
Vyom's 2nd grade teachers are Ms. Mehta for Home room and Language Arts, Ms. Yarborough for Maths.
Vyom's 1st grade teachers were Ms. Proctor for Homeroom and Math and Ms Kusuma for Language arts.
Vyom and Omya get along very well. Vyom is still a role model for Omya.
Another thing worth mentioning is that we had a puppy dog addition to our family "Labradoodle" named Noodles. We got him in April and Noodles birthday is on Jan 4th. Vyom and Omya love playing and spending the time with Noodles.
Vyom's love for trying different cuisines and eating healthy food continues. His love for Panda Express, Chipotle and some Indian Restaurants still exists.
Vyom also attended the Pan spelling bee contest held on August 30th Saturday. He was able to clear the 1st round written, but misspelled "source as sorce" " evaporate as evaprorate". He did spell "dangerous" correctly.. It was a fun event and he enjoyed it.
Vyom did pick up a decent amount of Hindi again with grandparents around. We did move to a new house in Nov 2013 and this place is walking distance to Vyom's school.
Vyom walked to school for Harker summer camp and it was a great feeling. Somedays all 4 of us used to walk to drop Vyom. Since Omya was not doing the summer camp she was excited to go and meet Ms. Kelly.
Vyom also has this interesting habit of saving from time to time. He would make comments how we can save more.. this piece of story to come in next blog..
Overall, we are proud of both Omya and Vyom!! You both rock :-)
Love you
Dad
