End of the School Year 2012

On wednesday May 23 Christopher "graduated" from Pre K.  Lakin, Kim and I took the kids to school then went to the Library at Eagleville.  At 9am they filed into the library, big smiles and waves to their families. Then the kids lined up on a three step platform (and none fell off). They were dressed in a varity of ways from slacks, long sleeve shirt, and vest (Christopher and a couple of other boys) to shorts and jeans. The girls were mostly in sundresses and some in shorts, some in jeans. All were adorable. They sang 3 songs and most knew all of the words. The cutest song was the ABCs in my mouth. complete with motions and wiggles.
They each received a mock diploma and a folder with pictures and some of their work. To get those they had to give Mrs Smith a Hug.
We then went outside on the patio and had cake with the class picture on the cake, chips, juice and water. Christopher got lots of hugs from Ms Smith and Ms Tolivar and of course he had to hug all his classmates.(esp the girls lol)

Thursday Lakin went to school with Savannah, Lakin  helped supervise all the activities as there were no lessons that day. On Friday Lakin and Christopher took Savannah to school to get her report card. With Mrs Dyke's assistance, she improved so much in her work. and got good marks.
Savannah will be going to a week day camp that will include riding horses. She also loves to run she can outrun the boys in her class. Anyone know of a good track coach for a 3rd grader. we wold like to get her  running the proper way so she will not have to relearn it in Middle school. There are times at home she will run, just because she likes to.

Christopher got to go see his Developmental Pre K teacher he had when he was 3 to 4 yrs old. He Loved Ms DeeDee. Both Ms DeeDee and Mrs Smith have made a big difference in his life. Learning school stuff and behavior.

Both Mrs Smith and Mrs Dyke sent home work for them to do over the summer. Their to do dailey list starts with school. This is done after breakfast.  Lakin and Savannah have been working on math and will include some spelling.  With Christopher he has been working on sight words. There were 30 some on one page and Christopher knew over 25 of them. Tried to sound out some of the others. Then Lakin realized he had Savannah's end of 1st grade sight words.  They are also working on him printing his name - letters in a row and all the same size and not the artistic creative name.  They hope that this will help both of the kids remember what they learned last year so they can go on with their new lessons.

I promise I will have a couple of pictures of 'graduation'.