School's out.

This morning I had no reason to be out of bed before 7 a.m.  The reason being that last Friday was Sofia's last day of school.  It's hard to believe that first grade is finished and we are now onto second grade.

Here she is as she headed out the door Friday morning.

The last couple of weeks we were on countdown with the letters spelling out "second grade".
S - Silly socks to school.
E - Extra recess today.
C - Crazy hair day.
O - Outside for field day.
N - Necklace or necktie to school.
D - Doodle and Drawing day.

G - Game Day.  Bring favourite board or card game.
R - Read - a -thon.  Bring favourite book from home.
A - Awesome memories day.  Write about first grade.
D - Dress for the All School Assembly with favourite Woodland t-shirt.
E - Everyone says goodbye!  End of the year.

It is amazing how much learning takes place in first grade.  Unbelievable progress.  Even Sofia commented on how she couldn't believe how "badly" she wrote at the beginning of the year when she was thumbing through her journal.  Ha!  Sofia has become a proficient reader who enjoys chapter books (Boxcar Children being her favourite), acquired math skills in adding, subtracting, and fractions, and is beginning to understand more about God's world through science, geography, and social studies.

We are thankful for Sofia's teacher, Mrs. Enquist.  We are thankful for Woodland School.  And we are thankful that we saw spiritual growth in Sofia this past year amid academic growth.  We are proud of her.

Here's a pic of the bus stop gang.  Thankfully we will see them this summer down at the beach.

Time to play!!!!