Last Day of Kindergarten

It was Lexi’s last day of school today.  Actually, it was also early dismissal so I guess it was more of a half day.  This has probably been the best week of school for her other than she is exhausted.  Grading ended last Friday, so she hasn’t had any homework or much school work.  She is a little emotional about it ending, mostly because about 30 to 40% of the kids will be going to a new school next year.  A few of her best friends will be gone.  She is also a bit down about it coming to an end.  She even asked me if she could repeat kindergarten next year.  I just smiled and said that they don’t let kids that have done as well as she has repeat kindergarten.

Kindergarten Work

Yesterday at the education celebration, Lexi's teacher gave the parents a few books containing items created by the students.  The above picture/writing was in a book titled "My Favorite Things."  Below, is an ABC Animal Book.  I decided to include all of the pictures from that one.  Because they push the kids to learn a lot in this school, I am glad to see that they also did quite a bit of artwork.  It is important to have a creative outlet.  

Kindergarten Celebration

Lexi's kindergarten had a celebration of education this morning.  I dropped Jordan off at the neighbor's house so that I could attend.  Her teacher called each student to the front of the class and gave them a certificate saying they passed kindergarten.  He also explained that this was an exceptionally great group of readers.  He had never had so many get to level 12 in AR.  I think he said 11 from his class, which is about half.  He talked about how good they were at breaking down sentences (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, noun markers, etc).  He also gave each of us a packet.  

One of the most interesting things in the packet was the reading evaluation that was done for each child last week.  To my surprise, Lexi is reading like a beginning of the year 3rd grader.  Last time he evaluated her, he expected that she would be reading like a second grader at the end of the year, so this was a surprise. We were also given some booklets that were created by each student.  Perhaps, I’ll post pictures of those tomorrow.  

Present to the teacher from one of the moms - so creative!

Reading Evaluation

Lexi's classmates

Water Park Popularity & Mishap

We went to the water park today and Lexi bumped into several friends from her kindergarten class.  I guess she doesn't have to be sad this summer about not seeing any of them.  She had fun playing with them, going down the slides, and swimming to the cave.  

Unfortunately, she had a mishap on the way back from the cave.  The CTR ring that Grandma Margie gave her slipped off of her finger (that is the second one that has done that).  The pool is about 5 feet deep where that happened and Lexi tried repeatedly to dive down and get it.  In fact, she tried so hard that she had trouble coming back up.  She yelled out for help and a man/father that was nearby got to her right before I could.  She was a little shaken up.  I had to explain that everyone, including Grandma, would rather have her sacrifice the ring before doing that to herself.  Maybe the life guards will find it in the filter.