Student of the Month!

Wow ... this week zipped by for us!

We were notified by mail last weekend that Kaelyn would be the recipient of the Student of the Month Award at her school. The school invited us to come and watch her receive the award. Kaelyn did not know that she had won and we decided to keep it a secret too:-) Polly, Adrienne (Mike's sisters), Mike, Zack and I all went to support our little "Student of the Month".

When the principal called the kid's names during the assembly the kids would run down the isle of students, past the parents who all gave high-fives, then through a tunnel that the teachers created by locking their hands together. When Kaelyn's name was called she started WAlKING SLOWLY towards the back with a completely bewildered/deer in headlights look on her face. The P.E. coach, bless her heart, decided to make the "victory run" with Kaelyn. She was very cute, but the PE coach blocked my view for getting her picture (and high-five for that matter!!). O'well. So, sorry I don't have any pictures!

We were very proud of Kaelyn! She won the award when she was in kindergarten too! We have a VERY good girl and we are very proud of her!

I also had her 1st grade parent-teacher conference on Monday. All good stuff! Her teacher said that she is already at the level they hope students will be at the end of the year:-) Yay Kaelyn! Kaelyn's class has been doing The Beary Good Reader program. We keep track off all the books that she reads and then she earns stickers at school for every 5 books. At the end of the year they give out awards. Kaelyn is in 1st place in her class and VERY motivated to stay there! She has been reading chapter books independently and has read pretty much everything we have so we will probably have to add to our book collection soon.