No Longer a Kindergartener!

This morning Tyler left for school a kindergartener and returned home a first grader! Looking back, the year seems to have flown by!

This is Tyler before his last day of school. He's holding the present he made for his teacher. This year we opted for impatiens so we could play on the word "patient". Tyler got the joke and thought it was perfect. (Last year we used forget-me-nots.) I took him to school this morning so he didn't have to tote it on the bus. His teacher loved it and was properly enthusiastic about his work.









Tyler brought home a couple journals he'd been working on over the year. It was neat to look at his progress. At the beginning of the year his sentences consisted of a couple words in shaky handwriting. By the end of the year, his handwriting was much neater, his pictures more detailed, and his sentences formed a paragraph. Very cool and certainly items I will hang on to! He also brought home his grade card, which officially declared him a first grader. His grade card was absolutely perfect and filled with praise from his teacher. The cool thing was that he was able to read all her comments for himself (with the exception of "excellent" and "successful"). He has learned so much this year! We couldn't be more proud of him.

Tonight we went to Chuck E. Cheese's to celebrate the great year both our kids had. We had a really good time and are looking forward to a fun summer together.