End of the Year Awards

Eva received an Honor Roll award for having a GPA of 3.5 - 3.99 as well as the President's Award. 

 

 

Emily received an Honor Roll award and medal for having 4.0 GPA all year. She was one of only 8 in the entire 2nd grade. She also received the Sunglass award in class because she is so bright! Lol. 

So proud of my girls. One more day of school then they turn into 6th and 3rd graders!

Eva and Reading

Eva had 25 AR points last year. She said she didn't have a goal this year, but her points for 5th grade were 233.  That's quite an improvement,! 

 

The downside is that all of her friends have very high AR points (one had over 450 and another over 300), so she has a lot of competition.  I'm just so proud that she improved so much! Thank you, Harry Potter and Hunger Games!

 

 

Emily and Reading

Emily was very excited (and I very proud) about receiving a high score in her benchmark reading test at school...and having no homework for the last 'real' week of school.  She and 2 other kids tied for high score, so they all received the slip of paper below. 

 

I have to say that I was very surprised to hear that she did so well. She's never been a reader and rarely finishes a chapter book before moving on to a different book.  She tends to bring a different book home every day or two.   She seems to like comic book style books the best, but all in all not really interested in reading. 

Her teacher said that she went from unsatisfactory in reading at the beginning of the year to mastery in reading at the end. That's quite an accomplishment for her.  In math she went from basic to advanced.   Her teacher is recommending that she stay in the advanced classes at school. 

I am very proud of her and her hard work.

Batting Video

Just a quick video of her batting at practice last week.  She likes to look to see where the ball is going when she is supposed to be sprinting to the base.  You can hear David yelling at her to stop looking and she keeps looking. Lol.  We'll break her of that soon.

Softball

Softball has started again, and sadly these are the only 2 pictures I took. I think the others got deleted by accident. I'll post more after the next game. 

 

The pitcher walked her.  I am very proud of her for not swinging when I know how badly she wanted to hit that ball. She loves batting, and she's good at it.

 

Luau

Eva before her luau dance at school, the last dance of the year. 

 

 

 

 

Art Gala

Their school is a performing arts Inter Baccalaureate (IB) school. Basically, this means that their school makes art, music, and performing arts a requirement (and priority) for each student.  Each spring the school puts on an art gala to showcase a couple of each student's art from that year.

 

Emily did a portrait of Rosa Parks (directly above her head). 

 

Her snowflake:

Her 'Parts of a Plant":

Eva's class drew silouettes of themselves then filled it in with things that represent themselves. In case you can't make them out, there are kittens, dogs, macaroni and cheese, tacos, books, orange, Lindt, Gordon Ramsay, Hunger Games, cookies, bacon, Harry Potter. That pretty much sums her up, lol.

They also made suncatchers:

Afterwards, all the kids who were in Company sang a few songs from the Peter Pan show. 

 Emily and her bff.

 Another one.

 

 

 I love this one.

 

 

 They do love each other.

Ballet Pictures

Normally, the ballet pictures are done so well, but this year her lighting must have been off. Emily looks like she has a spray tan in her solo pictures. The group picture has some of the girls so washed out and the others look spray tanned.

 

Front Seat

Last week was her first day to sit in the front seat.

 

 

 

 

What I've just realized is that the next car milestone will be driving. We're even planning on her taking David's car as her own when that time comes (in 6 years).

 

Sigh.

 

Growing Girls

The last time I measured them was July 2014, 9 months ago.  They've each grown about 3 inches in height, and I can't remember how much in weight.

Eva is now 5' 1.5" tall and about 77 pounds. She's 10 1/2. She is now tall enough to sit in the front seat (4' 9" and age 13 according to the CDC), and I let her, once.  Her height is 100th percentile, and her weight is about 49th percentile.  Skinny girl.  A height predictor says she'll be 6' 0" by age 18.  I don't think she'll be quite that tall, but pretty close.

Emily is 4' 7" tall (almost tall enough for the front seat) and 62 pounds.  She's 8.  Emily's height is also 100th percentile, and her weight is 75th percentile. The height predictor says she'll be 5' 11" by age 18. Again, I think she'll be just under that, but we'll see.  It's fun to guess.

I need to go back and see their height at age 2 then double it and compare those heights.  There's no doubt, we have a pair of tall girls.