Emily

On Tuesday, Emily had her awards ceremony. She got high honors again and special honors for being in the honor roll all year (she actually had high honors all year long). She also got a citizenship award. Something we have not been able to get Caitlyn to get because she does not communicate well with her teachers (asking for help, responding, etc).  But I have to admit that Emily's teacher is a lot easier on the kids about these things. But at least she is responsive when spoken to...I can't say the same for Caitlyn but I think she is getting better.

Christian helped me adjust my camera for the low light and depth of field problems I always have and the pictures came out a little better than the previous day, but Emily kept pursing her lips and doing other odd things so in the end, I didn't get very good pictures again...*sigh*.

The third graders did not get their end of the year picnic until Thursday. The third grade teachers seemed to be much more prepared to entertain the kids. They brought all kinds of equipment for the kids to play games with, they had organized games and other stuff like bubbles and chalk and balloons to occupy all the kids.

Emily's best friend this year moved after the 2nd trimester so she seemed a little more disconnected and lost. She played with various friends but she kind of just went from one group to another.

Overall, all the kids looked like they had a ton of fun. On Wednesday, they had their AR (accelerated reader) party for all the kids who met their goals. They got to choose free books and had snow cones. Caitlyn and a couple of kids in her class got to go too. In fact, Caitlyn's goals by the end of the year was as high as Emily's was at the beginning of this year and she met them with no problems. The first graders also had a group of people to come on Wednesday to put on a "mad science" exhibition for them as they missed out on their trip to the Long Beach Aquarium this year because of some scheduling conflict with buses.

Friday, they are only in school for half the day and they are done for the year.