Go Jaycie!

At the end-of-year awards assembly this week each teacher gave out 3 awards for outstanding achievement during the 07-08 school year. They were for "Most Improved," "Best Academic," and "Good Citizen." Jaycie received the "Academic" award for having the best grades and scores, and always turning in outstanding work. YEA! Too bad there wasn't one for "cutest 3rd grader," cuz she would've stolen that one! Mrs. Hanson also mentioned the fact that she always wrote lengthy and complete answers on her assignments, especially in regards to story problems in Math. Apparently she's very detail oriented and little long-winded. I wonder where she gets that...

Colby "Awesome" Graves

So for those of you who aren't familiar with Colby, he was one of the first kids that Hayden talked about after starting Kindergarten. She also spoke a lot of Caleb Pugh, who's breath smelled "like peaches." Anyhoo, I got to know Colby a little bit more by volunteering in class and following along on field trips. I learned just this last week while walking behind him on the way to the drive in that "You shouldn't step on the cracks in the sidewalk. If you do, your Mom's back will break. It says so in the Bible." Here's to you, Colby.

WooHoo!

Our 2nd field trip this week was a walk to the city park for lunch and play time, then a trip through the library for a story and back. While at the park Glory got a ride on the swings for the first time. She LOVED it, as I'm sure most babies do. Whee!

Field trippin'!

School is almost out and the warmer weather is finally here, so most of the classes at Delta Elementary are going on field trips. Because things here are few and far between and resources are limited, most field trips here are walking field trips. This week Penny and Glory and I accompanied Hayden's class, led by Ms. Marchini, on two field trips. First was a walk to the local drive-in which is getting ready to open for the summer. The owner of the drive in is a former Delta Elementary School teacher and sold each of the Kinder's an ice cream cone for .50 cents. Or is that "fitty cent?" Here are some of the happy field trippers.