Summer vacation

Gosh, it's hard to belive my kids are on Summer Vacation. Thursday was Ryan's last day of school. There was a Graduation Celebration for the Kickstart class. It was SO cute, they wore litte caps and all walked in the next room together, and sat down, then they got diplomas, and then cake and punch after... It was really neat. When they were coming in the room, Tina that was sitting next to me said, just think in 12-13 more years, you will be watching this again, only they'll be bigger... how sad is that? Anyway, Ryan was all really excited! After school, Bradley even got a piece of cake. I should of pulled Brad out of class so he could watch too. He was bummed he missed it. Ryan also thought since he was done with Kickstart Kindergarten on Thursday, he would start Kindergarten on Friday, then I explained he'd have all summer off, and then he said that was good, because he likes to be home with me doing stuff. I also got Ryan's report card, which looked really good, pretty much all M's except. P+s on controling the volume of his voice and taking care of personal belongings. I also got his Allegan County Public Schools Literacy Initiative Emergent survey Student chart.... test thingie... I didn't totally understand it, But was told it was really REALLY good for a kid just going into Kindergarten. From what I understand, on this chart he needs to get 100% by the end of second grade, which will show he'll be a good reader... anyway, here's the results, give my input if you understand the chart!
Concepts of Print 75.00%
Beg Sounds 100.00%
Rhyme 75.00%
Blending Onsets 100.00%
Segment Onsets 0.00 %
Phoneme Blending 87.50%
Phoneme Segment 100.00%
Letter Names 100.00%
Letter Sounds 100.00%
K Sight words 50.00%
Sentence Dictation 10.45%

So those are the results.

Brad's last day of school was yesturday. I went to his awards ceremony. He got voted "most coopertive" in his class by his classmates... Wish he was like that at home! ha ha He also got on the A/B Honor roll... again. He was on that every time this year except once, when he was on the "B" average, ( he had gotton a C in Math). So anyway, his report card consisted of 3 A's and 3 B's . I'm VERY proud of him!
I got Mrs. Guidry (Brad's teacher) Mrs. VanderPloeg (Ryan's teacher) and Mrs. Wilken ( Camp Blackhawk teacher) New Guinea impatient hanging plants for the end of the year gift. Then I got Mrs. Dolphin a lily since Ryan is all done with Speech, she can plant it and remember him for years to come! and then I got the Principals and Secretary's and also Mrs. Hutchins ( Brad's reading teacher) a cool orange daisy plant. I appreciate all that they do for me and Bradley and Ryan.
I also had a talk with Mrs. Lanphear ( upper EL. principal) She told me who Bradley was going to have next year. He's going to have Mr. Andrews, the catch was, Mr. Andrews is going to be teaching a class that consists of 1/2 4th grade and 1/2 5th grade. Mrs. Lanphear says she thinks Bradley will do great in there. They are moving everyone around again. Trying to make the class sizes smaller. Good luck!! I think the closer we get to the new school being done, the more crowded it's going to be. I also know that Ryan is going to be in Cheri Schmidts class . I requested her, and Teri one of the other Kindergarten teachers, said she was glad Ryan was going to be in Cheri's class, because he's going to be really difficult to keep challanged. Teri's daughter is also going to be in Cheri's room, so she was going to work with her on reading so Cheri would have 2 smarties in her room... Mrs. Vander Ploeg said Ryan isn't a problem child at all, but he's got a lot of energy and it's tough to keep him occupied because he learns so quickly and gets his work done so fast. But Cheri says' she's up for the challenge.
I guess I've rambled enough, and have a TON of things to do around here and the boys are at eachother ... Have a great day!