The End of the School Year...Yeah!!

The kids have been eager for school to end for a few months now. Once May began, I too, was ready to call it quits. We had to pushed through to finish some history, math, and the kids' writing workshop and online course with Mrs. Rife, but the school year did (finally )come to an end. Now, just one more hurdle so we could offically call it the end of the school year....the CAT 5 test. We ususallly take 3-4 days to complete the tests but this year the kids wanted to push harder and get them all done in 2 days. I was a bit worried that the rush would bring about lower test scores, but I didn't need to be concerned at all, they did great--they all achieved scores in the 90th percentile.

The last day of writing workshop the two classes showed off to their parents all the fun they had during the semester. The older class wrote a play.

Delaney's class shared a book that they authored...plus they combined their efforts and wrote a poem....all about mud.

I Am Mud

I'm Sloppy, I'm mushy

I'm sticky like honey.

I smell yummy, I smell yucky

I even fell slimy.

Pigs say I'm soft,

Others say I'm cold and hard.

It's fun to be gooey, It's fun to be squishy.

Mom says I'm disgusting, Dad says I feel good.

I can be hard, I can be slimy,

But it's okay,

Because God made dirt and breathes life into it.

A friend invited us, along with others, for a fun end-of-the-school-year pool party. We had a great time playing inthe water and sun and enjoying a meal of pizza.