A Day in My Life!: SCHOOL'S OUT!!!

The last day of school has arrived and the girls left this morning excited about the fun day they will have today. I'm always amazed at the end of the year how much they have learned through the past school year.

Kylie learned this year to write all of her letters and numbers up to 20 and started to read a little with little beginner readers. Most of the pages had 3 or 4 words on them, but hey, you have to start somewhere don't you! She learned more about shapes, colors and even picked up a little bit on some of the math Mackenzie learned this year. She can write her name and a few small words that she knows and has become very fixed on making sure she writes "pretty". Her teachers on the first day of school weighed and measured each student and then did again yesterday and recorded it so we would have it. On the first day of school she was 40.5" tall. Yesterday she was 43" tall. She grows slow. Her weight the first day was 35 pounds and yesterday it was 38 pounds. Can't wait to see what all she can soak up next year in kindergarten!

Mackenzie this year really got into learning how to do new things. Her math skills have gotten a lot better and now does well when they do their 100 problems in 5 minute tests. (Yes they have to finish all 100 problems in 5 minutes at the end of first grade going into second grade.) She has learned how to take a word and put the phonics symbols on the correct letters to show what is a long vowel, short vowel, and all that fun stuff. She now is a great little reader and loves to read whenever she can. She read around 70 books this year during the school year and tested on almost all of them, which resulted in her receiving the AR reading award and of course the State Education Reading Award, which you have to read over 25 books to receive. She also made the principals honor roll which is a great thing! She's very proud of it and so are we of course!! She is hoping next year they get to start learning science in second grade, as she has gotten to be very interested in the subject.

They'll have a good summer I'm sure this year. They'll enjoy having some time off and be ready soon to start back next August. Enjoy the pictures below of the first and last day of school I took.

Till Next Time!!!