Year End Awards

On Monday, the girls had their year end award ceremonies at school. Caitlyn's grade had their's first in the morning but they were combined with the 1st graders as well so the place was just packed...with kids and parents. It was pretty crazy. They went pretty fast, thrusting handfuls of awards at the kids and moving on.

Caitlyn got high honors, perfect attendance and citizenship. She's doing really great in school. Unfortunately, their principal is moving on next year and so we will have to start again with a brand new one. Mr. Ayala has done great things in the two years that he was at our school and we are so very sad that he is leaving. I have some hope for the new one as she was a teacher at this school for nearly 14 years before becoming a principal herself at a different school. There are still teachers here that remember her fondly here so I guess time will tell.

Emily had her award ceremony in the afternoon. Her award ceremony was much more civilized. It was only her grade so it was not as chaotic and apparently they had time to present every award separately as well, so Emily was up and down during the whole ceremony as we got six different awards! The fifth graders had some categories and awards that they didn't offer to other grades.

She got one for honor roll, citizenship and perfect attendance. Then she got another one for having perfect attendance all year long. She also got one for meeting her AR goal and physical education. The physical education was just for the 5th graders. I don't know why they didn't offer the AR one to Caitlyn's grade...especially since Caitlyn's personal goal was higher than Emily's!

She actually missed two award opportunities. She never managed to make it to high honors this year which she was quite upset about. She was hoping to get it by the end of the year. But since she skipped 4th grade and still managed to stay on the honor roll, I think she did pretty good! Realistically, I don't know if it was not making it to high honors, or not being able to get a high honor pin for her lanyard that upsets her more!

The other thing she missed was getting a special lanyard for the 100 mile club. She was so close, I think she managed run 85 miles this past year, but since she missed the first several weeks of 5th grade, she didn't quite have enough time to do it. And honestly, she wasn't very motivated in the beginning so she didn't put that much effort into it until maybe halfway through the year, she decided that she wanted to try for it. She made a valiant effort in the end but had procrastinated a little too much in the beginning to accomplish her goal in time.