First & Last :: Reese

Reese on the first day of first grade...

and then on the last! (again, forgot the chalkboard.)

She looks so much older to me. She has on the same dress so you can really see how much she's grown. Her legs are so much longer! She has the same pretty blue eyes and the same sweet smile, just missing one bottom tooth.

She continues to love school and really took off on reading this year. In her AR program she finished at  the Honors level which is one higher than she did last year and she has hopes to make it to the top level in second grade. She started reading chapter books in April and is beginning a love of reading. She's enjoying The Magic Treehouse series and the A to Z Mysteries and then other non-series books too. She loved her teacher, Mrs. Llamo. Reese loved that she was often asked to run errands for her. (I just have to mention how much I loved Mrs. Llamo's family oriented homework. I will miss that next year!) She did a lot of neat projects in her class including a project on Venuzuela in the Spanish speaking countries unit, the Wax Museum where she researched Rosa Parks, an animal study on the Nutria, a research project and 3D craft on the Swallowtail Butterfly. They also tok some really neat field trips including the Interactive Theater in the Heights, the Bayou Wildlife Park in Alvin and a day trip to Galveston Bay to the Moody Mansion, took a tour of an old battleship and then on a boat ride to see dolphins! 

She has a great group of friends at school who love to play at recess. She's become quite the expert at the jump rope songs and ryhmes where you clap hands with a partner.

She had a fantastic year and is now moving up to 2nd grade!!