Last Day of School 2013

Nathan had his last day of school on Thursday and Isaac and Rebekah had theirs on Friday.  Nathan was super excited, because this means no more preschool and next year he gets to go to school with the "big kids".  

 Isaac got several awards including 100% in PE for all four quarters, 100% in math for the 3rd quarter (Ms. Mineck said that she was impressed because this was a hard one since they introduced multiplication this quarter), 100% in history 1st & 2nd quarter, 100% phonogram club (They had to get 100% by the end of the year on all 70 phonograms.  Isaac got his early on and would bring me wonderful doodles that he got to do while everyone else was taking their tests.), a certificate for reading the assigned 25 books for the year, and both he and Rebekah got certificates, because they had creative writings that were selected for the school's creative writing book.  Each teacher got to submit writing from two students from each quarter, and these were compiled into a book for the school.  As a reward they each got a certificate and a copy of the booklet.

Rebekah did so well this year.  She struggled a little bit towards the end, but I think it was mainly just running out of steam, however this is the first year she did not have to go to tutoring!  Yeah!  She was one of the best readers in her class and received an award for being a super reader.  She read well over the required 500 pages with close to 2 thousand.  (She seems to have inherited the love of reading from her mother.)  She also got an award for always being willing to help out in class, along with the certificate for being in the school's creative writing collection.

  They both loved their teachers this year.  Rebekah loved having Ms. Ray and Isaac had a great time with Ms. Mineck.  (Both kids had her and she retired this year.)

Ms. Mineck does a very funny thing at the end of the year.  She likes to guess what her first graders are going to be when they grow up.  Can you guess what she said about Isaac?




Isaac 1st grade from Shannon on Vimeo.

 In case you can't read it Isaac's says: Water: Water can be anywhere.  It is good for your body.  Water can be gross or good.  You can drink water too. In a pool you can swim in water.  All plants and animals need water.  (You can definitely tell a boy wrote this, he worked the word gross in there.)

 Rebekah's says: The Flying Music: Do you hear the music?  Do you see their flapping wings?  Oh, beautiful birds!

Water Day at Nathan's Preschool

 

Rebekah's Piano Recital May 2013

T-Ball Spring 2013

The boys had a lot of fun playing their first year of T-ball.  It was a just for fun rec league so no scoring, but they had a lot of fun and their coach taught them some really good fundamentals.  Isaac was really good with his participation, but Nathan struggled a little with the practices.  After the first couple of practices he kept insisting that he wanted to play "real baseball".  He didn't quite understand, even after we explained it to him, that you have to start out somewhere before you can get to the real thing. =)  He is very much a doer.  He just wants to be thrown into it and figure it out that way.  Isaac is a lot more methodical in his approach to things, and it is so fun to watch them learn things with such different learning styles.

(For clarification Nathan is in tan shorts and Isaac is in plaid.  Sometimes it is hard to tell them apart especially when they have hats on.)