The Last Day of School 2011-2012 School Year

Time flys!  Today marks the end of the 2011-2012 school year.  Mikayla is officially a 4th grader and Ashlee is officially a 6th grader in middle school. 

The last day of school started off with an awards assembly for honor roll and perfect attendance.  Both the girls received Academic Excellence Awards for having a 4.0 GPA.  Ashlee also received an award for perfect attendance.  YES PERFECT ATTENDANCE!  With all the health issues our kids have had throughout their life, I never thought I would have a child with PERFECT ATTENDANCE, but Ashlee did it this year.  Mikayla was very close.  She missed 3 days of school.  2 of the days for strep throat, which hopefully won't happen anymore since her tonsils have been removed.

Ashlee getting her Academic Excellence Award for 4.0 GPA

Mikayla in the bright yellow shirt.  Holding her Academic Excellence Award for 4.0 GPA.  She is weraing her shirt that her classmates autographed.  I didn't want her to wear it, but it ended up being a great idea.  It was easier to spot her throughout the day at the carnival.

Ashlee (first one on right)

Mikayla with her Academic Excellence Award

Mikayla and Allison

Ashlee and her teacher Mr. Sundy.



 After the morning awards assembly there was a carnival for the entire school, hot dog BBQ lunch for the student's and their families and snowcones.

Allison and Mikayla getting their nails painted

Allison and Mikayla (in the neon clothes) paying duck, duck, wolf.  The wolf is the school mascott.  This game involved sponges and water.  It was a hot day and the kids wanted to play with water as much as possible.

Ashlee enjoying a snowcone.

 Ashlee decided to have glasses facepainted on her face.

Alyssa and Ashlee





 We are proud of both of them and all the hard work they put into their academics.  Now it's time for a break from all the homework and projects.  After school I took Ashlee, Mikayla, Alyssa and Allison to Mc Donalds for a little treat.  Ashlee and Alyssa went to a friends house for a swimming/birthday party and Mikayla had her friend Allison come over to play.  Finally time for them to be KIDS!

Mikayla's 3rd Grade Party

Mikayla's class had their end of the year party today for 3rd grade.  Myself and two other parent's are room mom's for the class. We planned a pizza picnic style lunch,  sponge water relay game,  three legged race, leap frog, popsicles and t-shirt autographing.  They all seemed to love it.  In fact there was time left at the end of the day and so Mrs. Crawford asked them to name the funest thing about the school year.  A lot of student's mentioned the party today, especially the sponge water relay game. Unforunately Mikayla had to miss the picnic part of the party.  She was having lunch with the principal for getting the principal's award.  She wasn't happy about that!

The picnic consisted of pizza, grapes and capri-suns.

 Sponge Water Relay Races.  The kid's loved this game.  We did the game twice and they were asking to do it again.

Mikayla running to empty her sponge into a bucket.

Allison

The class divided into 2 teams

 The 3 legged race.  Allison and Mikayla were partners.

 Leap Frog.  Mikayla was the first frog (in the white shirt).  This game probably was their least favorite one.  They didn't like being bent over waiting for all 22 kids to go through the line.  There was also some hair that got pulled, backs that got hurt, and kids who fell over the top of someone else.

 Cooling off.  Eating some popsicles.

Karah, Allison, Mikayla (back)
Angat and Auki (front)

T-shirt autographing.

Allison and Ian



Riley, Aiden and Mikayla

I found this idea on Pinterest and thought it would make a very nice gift for a teacher.  So I made these two for Mikayla's teacher Mrs. Crawford and her student teacher Mrs. Rodrigues.  The teacher had a Shutterfly website for the class with pictures from throughout the year, I was able to get pictures off the class web site to make these.  They were easy to make, but time consming because of the steps and drying time.  I asked parents to purchase gift cards in small increments and they went into the pot as well.  The teachers loved them.  I even had other teachers on campus coming up to me telling me how much they liked the pots.

I found this idea on Facebook via Sugardoodle so I helped Mikayla make some up for each student in her class.  Very cute, simple gift. 

Principal's Award, 100 AR Points and Safety Patrol Awards

Two weeks ago Mrs. Crawford (Mikayla's 3rd grade teacher) sent me the following email:

I have great news! I am sure you may be wondering why Mikayla has not received a life skills award this year because she of course deserves one! Well, that is because I have been waiting to present her as my Principal’s Award winner!!! J

This means she will be winning the Giants jersey hanging in my class, as well. So, if you don’t mind keeping it a surprise, I would appreciate it! I will announce it to the class and present her with the jersey right before the assembly at 2:15 (if you want to come early to see that). Then, she can wear the jersey to the assembly to show it off.

The assembly is on Friday, May 25^th at 2:30 in the cafeteria.

 I am sure you are as excited as I am! I am so proud of how hard Mikayla has worked this year and her example of stellar class behavior. She has had to overcome so much over the last few years with her hearing difficulties and yet still manages to EXCEL in all she does. She is such as STAR!

Today Mikayla was awarded with the Giant's Jersey and the Principals award at a school assembly.

Mrs. Crwaford putting the Giants Jersey on Mikayla

Mikayla wearing the Giant's Jersey

Mikayla getting the Principal's Award at a school assembly

Mikayla and the other K-3 Principal Award Recipients getting their picture with the Principal.

Friday morning Ashlee called me at work and told me she was going to be awarded with an award for reaching 100 Accelerated Reader Points.  She didn't know that I was already planning on being at the assembly, so I just told her that I would try to make it. 

Little did I know that life would through us a curve ball, and trying to get to the school for the assembly that day was a bit of a challenge.  But in between everything that was happening (see below) I was able to make it to the school and get back to the hospital before my brother got wheeled into surgery.

Ashlee being awarded with her award for reaching 100 Accelerated Reader Points.

 Two days a week this entire school year Ashlee has been on Safety Patrol (she helps direct traffic through the school parking lot two days a week after school and helps students safely cross the crosswalks).  Today she along with 37 other safety patrol students received an award for their service.

Great job Mikayla and Ashlee we are proud of you and your accomplishments.

Life's Curve ball

  Shortly after Ashlee called me at work, my mom called me at work crying and asked me to come be with her at the hospital.  I asked why she was at the hospital and she said it's Adam (my brother), my brother is a truck driver and he transports fuel.  The first thing that crossed my mind was that he had been in an accident.  My mom said I think it's his appendix's or kidney stones.  I hung up the phone and got to the hospital.  Long story short, I arrived at the hospital and could tell that Adam was in a huge amount of pain.  The ER was full and so trying to get help was a lengthy process.  After 4hrs in the ER they finally did a CT scan and discovered that his appendix's had ruptured.  3hrs after discovering the appendix's had ruptured they took him into surgery to remove the appendix's.  Once they got into surgery they realized that he had an abscess, and a really bad infection as well.  The surgeon explained to us that they had to put a drainage tube in for the abscess and that my brother would need to be in the hospital at least 4 days.  And on top of all this, my brother just started a new job 3 months ago and has been waiting for his 90 days to be up so he can get health insurance.  Needless to say, he is suppose to get health insurance next week!  Yikes.