The Petersen Family: Last Day of School!!

Wow, this school year flew right by. I cannot believe we will actually have a second grader and a fifth grader next year. Even though the days seem long, the years really do fly by in the blink of an eye, it scares me.

Both girls had an excellent year. All through preschool and kindergarten, Addy had really bad anxiety about being separated from me. This year, she did amazing! Go Addy. The first few weeks were rough, even though I was the aide in her class for the first few hours, and stayed at school all day! It was almost to the point of me having to be taken out of her class, but she turned it around, and I got to stay all year. She had a couple of little crying incidents, poor girl, but did fantastic. She got straight A's all year! Like really high straight A's. We had always planned on having her wait another year to start kindergarten, and I still wished we did. She wasn't ready emotionally, but academically she is rocking it. She reads like a pro, and is coming along with her math perfectly.

Hailey also had an amazing year. Her teacher told me at the beginning of the year that they go through a lot of changes and grow so much in fourth grade, and boy was she right. Hailey and I but heads constantly, but she has matured quite a bit this year. She is an amazing friend and student. She has gotten all A's except for a C at the beginning, which her teacher says is because she was rushing and not taking her time to read directions. Luckily she slowed down, because her grade shot right up. She definitely has Jaren's math sense, not mine haha! And boy can she spell! I almost wish our charter school had a spelling Bee, because she would love it! One thing that made me super proud was that she was always willing to help at school. They got out of school fifteen minutes before I could leave, and she was always helping her teacher or Addy's teacher. Sweet girl!

Anyhow, the day of school was on a Wednesday, where they all had their school parties. They both had so much fun. Thursday was supposed to be a fun day at a trampoline park, and then I technically had to work Friday. However, poor Hailey got a terrible stomach bug, and we missed going in Friday. I wasn't planning on them going to the trampoline park anyway, because it was going to be way too crowded. We are SO happy that it is summer vacation, and that we are not on a schedule anymore.