Pancake Breakfast

Lots of end of year parties going on.  Today was an early pancake breakfast for all those in fourth grade who had at least 100 AR points.  Accelerated Reader is a program that tracks how well a student understood a book they read based on a ten question quiz.  It is hoped that each student will read enough to accumulate 25 AR points per term, so that at the end of the year, they've got at least 100.  That's an accomplishment.  Blythe has had no problem getting 100 ARpoints.  In fact, this year she had 214.5 AR points.  That's twice as many as she actually needed!  Shazam!!  And while 83.7 were from books that were read TO her, Blythe read for the other 130.8 all by herself.  That is very impressive.  She really has discovered how much she loves to read, and we love that she loves to read.

Our Blythe, off to eat lots of pancakes. 

In fact, she reported she ate four.

I'm not sure where she put them all.

End of School

School is winding down.  We're in the last week and everyone is ready for it to be over.  On Monday, Brandt stayed home from school complaining his stomach hurt.  He did have a bit of a GI tract thing going on, but through the day, he didn't really seem all that unwell.  Then on Tuesday, Blythe came home early and didn't go to school on Wednesday.  She had a similar complaint as Brandt, and seemed about as unwell as he had been two days before.  I think they both had the "I-don't-want-to-go-to-school-TV-blues" more than anything.  But fine.

Today Brandt had a pancake breakfast, earned through the year's accumulation of at least 100 AR points, obtained by reading books then taking tests on them to see how your comprehension was.  Brandt finished up the year with 136 AR points.  Yeah!  His reading has just exploded this year, such that it's become a wonderfully irritating problem sometimes.  The other night, when he should have been brushing his teeth, he was sitting on the closed toilet chewing on the toothbrush with his nose buried in his book.  Just brush already!  Anyway, having achieved the 100+AR point goal, Brandt got to attend the pancake breakfast.  He was thrilled as off he went early, golden ticket in hand.  He reported this evening that it was all delicious!

This week coming up the kids will both have read-a-thons and book exchanges, Blythe a field day, and Brandt a swimming field trip and a game day.  Thursday will be the last day of school.  Amazing!  Fourth and second grade are in the bag!