This school year has been a great one for our girls. Sade is in 1st grade and just enjoys every minute of it. She loves to learn and never puts up any resistance to doing her homework. Sade always has good grades, which for a parent is a dream come true! Sade loves to learn so much that playing school with Cali is one of her favorite games. So it came as no real surprise that Jeremy and I got a letter inviting us to the first grade "On-A-Roll" assembly of which Sade would be receiving an award. This is the elementary school's equivalent to the traditional Honor Roll award.
Nyah has also had a great school year. In the past Nyah has struggled in school, in part because of her first three years of school (K-2nd), she attended three schools and had a total of 6 different teachers. In 1st grade alone Nyah had two teachers that job shared a class (taking turns teaching different days and not following any real schedule) and then half way through the school year we moved and Nyah had another teacher at a new school. Needless to say, Nyah's education suffered and after settling her in AZ we quickly realized she had a lot of catching up to do. For our recess loving, social butterfly, extra catch-up work was not welcomed news but Nyah has increased her effort and we have seen the results.
On the day of Sade's award ceremony Jeremy & I were both able to attend. After school Sade walked home the whole way carrying her certificate, totally beaming. Cali & I sat outside waiting for the girls to come home. When the two came around the corner Nyah ran up to me also with some papers in her hand. As it turns out, Nyah earned an On-A-Roll certificate too!!! For some reason her teacher didn't know to invite parents to the ceremony (each grade has their own ceremony). Another surprise came when Nyah also showed off her perfect attendance award! Jeremy & I always joke that the kids who earn that award are the ones that get our kids sick... because their parents haven't the sense to keep their sick kids home. I guess we can't judge the others so harshly anymore because Nyah truly has made it the whole school year (so far) with out getting sick on a school day.
