teacher conferences

Tonight we had back to back teacher conferences for the kids.

First off we had Michelle's at the middle school.

Her conference was actually led by her.

She has been prepping for a month getting stuff ready.

She did a great job sharing her goals, areas she enjoys, areas she can

approve and so on. We went over her grades and she is getting mostly A's

and a few B's.  She does great on day to day work.  We just need to work

on tests and studying to get those B's up to A's.  Which is her main goal for

her 2nd trimester.  Her favorite subject was art and making pots, drawing/sketching

and this last week they designed their own stamp. It turned out really cool.

She also really enjoyed doing poetry in language arts.

Second trimester she will lose art and music to start drama and PE.

We left Michelle's conference grabbed a pizza and crazy bread then dropped the kids

at home before rushing to Jordan's. We made it right on time!
His conference went well and teacher had mostly great things to say about him.
He doing awesome in all subjects! He likes to work mostly on his own.
He has a harder working in groups and doesn't like to speak up.
She said when given an assignment he gets right to work, stays on task and quickly finishes.
She also said he has super neat handwriting!
He is having a hard time in PE and music with following directions and participation.
Since he was a young lad he never liked to try new things that he though he couldn't do.
I think this is now greatly affecting him in school.
When they learn a new concept in one of these classes he doesn't want to try.
He has approved a ton in PE once I was aware of the problem
and stayed in touch with teacher and talked with Jordan.
We are now going to do the same thing with music.
Explain to him what we expect of him and that I will be in touch with his teacher.
If he doesn't improve he loses every single electronic item in the house until
I hear about a great improvement. This means even on the weekends which is a huge
deal to Jordan.  I hate hearing he is being a turd at school and not behaving in class.
He enjoyed knowing I was checking in with his PE teacher and hearing great things
about his so really hope he changes in music too. There is a ton to be the class clown
and a time to sit, listen and follow directions.  Nip in the butt now before it goes on to long.

Both conferences went great.
Kids are both doing good in all subject!
It was nice that Josh and I got to go together.
Jordan made a super cute weekend news paper I wish I could share but the teacher kept it
It read something about how is weekend was awesome and that he got to watch the Seahawks.
He wrote who they played and that they had won!
He even had a picture of the teams playing with a scoreboard!

Spirit Week

This week Michelle had spirit week at school.

She only wanted to do two if the days and played it very safe.

She wouldn't even let me help her with wacky hair day

and hang Christmas ornaments in her hair.

Geesh.

You can view 2011 here and 2010 here.

This is the last week of school!

They have a half day on Monday then they are free!

Monday - June 11 - Black and White Day

Tuesday - June 12 - Hawaiian Day

Wednesday - June 13 - Best Dressed Day

Thursday - June 14 - Wacky Hat and Hair Day

Friday - June 15 - Green and Gold Day

Class of 2025!

It is official as of this afternoon Jordan is the newest member of the class of 2025!

We went in today and got him registered for Kindergarten.

{Yes this is the best picture I could get}

He passed the little test with flying colors!

WOWed the ladies with his charm and smarts :)

He is so EXCITED to start. 

He wants to start now but I told him he has to wait until September.

In May they get to go in the evening for a readiness night!

We have the flyer on the fridge and he has the countdown going!

{cool Kindergartner!}

While he is over the top excited I have mixed feelings.

He will no longer be my little man.

Anything little about him will be gone.

I will definitely be the crying mom on the first day.

But I am trying to be excited because he is!

I know he is more then ready to go!

Fun Friday

Friday was a very relaxed, fun day.  

It was just me and Jordan.  

 We were enjoying some computer time when I got a text from 

Jana asking if we wanted to walk to Woods for coffee.  

Of course...the sun is out for once!

Jordan wanted to ride his bike.

We dusted it off, added some air to the back tire, and he was ready to go.

When we got back we loaded up in the car to head to Bham.  

I wanted to check out the Dollar Tree with stuff to use for "school" related activities for Jordan 

and Valentine stuff.  

Jordan ended up being a huge help in adding things to the cart.  He picked out some army men, st. patrick's day hats for his pigs, some light up shamrock necklaces, and a few other odds and ends I didn't notice until we got home.  

One of the special things Jordan likes about going there is 

he loves picking out a balloon for him and for Carter.  We then drop it off and say hi.  

Jordan really loves doing this and I think it is a special way that he can remember Carter.

Once we got home he wanted to pull out all the fun things he picked out.  

The pigs had to put their hats on right away.

I also picked up some cups that I thought he would enjoy using to build and knock down with the angry birds set.  And he did.

Friday night was the carnival at Michelle's school.

But first we went to Milt's for pizza

Josh got some quarters so the kids could play some games.

Jordan and Michelle both had a blast at the carnival.  

Michelle we only saw in passing because she was hanging out with her friends.

Jordan loved playing all the games, went in the bouncy house, and doing the cake walk.

His favorite games were the football toss, putting the golf ball, and bowling.

He even tried the rock wall with Josh and went the whole distance across.  

He really wanted to push the button at the end.

The proud winner of two desserts from the cake walk.

Spirit Week

June 6th -10th

This week was spirit week for Michelle at school.  It is her last full week before the last day next week.

Monday- Black & White Day

Tuesday- Hawaiian Day

Wednesday- Twin Day

Michelle was twins with her friend Maria.  They planned out outfits and hair the night before

Thursday- Whacky hair Day

I was in Seattle so Melissa came over and put stripes in your hair for me. Daddy was kind enough to take and send me a picture on his phone.

Friday- Green & Gold Day