Last day of 4th grade

Today was the last day of 4th grade! It has been a great year for both of them! Morgan continues to love tacos and wants to be a soccer player! Avery continues her love of pasta and wants to be either a teacher or actress!

Here's just a little comparison from the beginning of the school year to now. Avery said "wow, we look so much older!"

After school they had a party outside with popsicles, tattoos, bouncy houses, etc.

We got a picture of Morgan and Lizzie with their teacher Mr. Miller. He's wearing a zebra shirt for "Z" day! Morgan really enjoyed being in his class. He tells a lot of jokes and isn't too strict, which works well with her sense of humor and tendency to chat in class.

The girls were starving, so we went to Honey Jam for lunch. They got the Oreo shakes.

Then, we went home and relaxed for a bit. Milo was super happy to have his sisters home!

Field Day

At the end of the school year, the girls' school has Field Day. I volunteered to help with the intermediate grades in the afternoon. I was paired up with a dad of a friend of the girls and we were at the water balloon station. We had instructions for what the kids were supposed to do, which was basically a relay type race where they ended up smashing water balloons on their heads. We improvised a bit with other games as we had time, but I think the kids had a blast. Most just wanted to use up all the balloons for a giant water balloon fight, but only the lucky last class of the day got to do that!

4th grade had lime green shirts

Milo sitting pretty for his picture! :)

Maebel, Ava, Neena, Katie, Avery and Elise

It was like 1,000 degrees and sunny, so the kids were burning up! We had squirt guns and the PE teacher ran around spraying kids with water to cool them off. They were soaked with water and sweat by the end of the day!

Maebel and Avery

At the end, the two 6th grade classes have a tug of war battle as the rest of the school cheers them on. You can see the 4th graders in their lime green sitting together.

And yes, that is Spider Man officiating the tug of war game! One class had less people and lost the first round, so Spider Man helped them out in the second round and they won! The tie breaker was without Spider Man, so they lost again. 

Such a fun day for the kiddos! We came home and cooled off while Avery had her piano lesson. Then, we went to the pool for about an hour to relax before dinner. Here's Morgan jumping off the diving board.

Safety Patrol

The fifth and sixth graders at our school can be part of the Safety Patrol, which is where the students patrol the other students during the school day. They wear these yellow sashes and have assignments, like which part of the day and where/who they are watching. The fourth graders get to practice one day this year when all the current Safety Patrol go on a field trip. They spend one day shadowing the current Safety Patrol and the next day while they are all gone, they get to be on patrol! Morgan got assigned the morning arrival spot, so she had to be to school at 8:00 to make sure all the kids were good as they came into school. Avery was assigned a lunchtime spot, so she watched kids at recess. When I'm supervising recess and lunch at school, the Safety Patrol help by taking hurt kids into the nurse or bathroom. They also make sure the kids are following rules. They have to take a test to learn the rules (in case they don't actually know them already!)

I didn't get a pic of Morgan on her patrol, but since I was supervising recess I was able to get a couple of Avery on her patrol!

Winding down the school year

Just a couple more weeks left of school - yay!

Heading to school on Monday

For her final project in orchestra, Morgan had to put on a concert for her violin class. She had to make a program and pick three songs to play.

4th Grade Bowling Party

The 4th grade had a bowling party at the Tivoli. I think about 30 of the 50 kids showed up, so there was a pretty good turnout! The kids bowled, had pizza, played the arcade games and then just ran around being silly!

Morgan and Lizzie had quite the fierce bowling competition!

Avery and her friends doing backbends!

And here is Avery taking an upside down selfie! I may be seeing things, but she looks so much like Morgan in this picture! I don't think they look much alike otherwise or right side up.

4th Grade School Pictures

 Here they are!

Ancient Greece

Avery's gifted class is learning about ancient Greece... about the gods, mythology, etc. and also about the architecture. The class had to build a structure to hold books. Avery's group held the most books/water bottles/etc. Future architects at work! :0

 

Violin Bow

Morgan earned her violin bow this week! They've just been plucking the violin strings so far, but she was really excited to show me her bow! She's doing really well, but doesn't like to practice as much as they would like her to! :)

Here she is testing out the new bow that night - let's just hope this is the before and there will soon be an after where she is playing a real song! Ha!

School pictures

We had school pictures on Wednesday. Avery set out her clothes the night before, of course. Morgan just winged it Wednesday morning. :) 

Curriculum Night

While the girls were with Matt at soccer practice, I went to curriculum night at school. I stopped off at both 4th grade classes. Both presentations were basically the same. One new thing this year is the girls are going to get letter grades on their report cards. But, they aren't getting them on their papers that come home. We still get the 1's, 2's, 3's on the papers. For the report cards, those are converted into a letter grade magically. :)

They had a couple of fun things on the walls that the kiddos did. I love that Morgan put she looks up to her dog. Ha!

2 days at school = Covid

Well, we made it two days at school and then this happened... Avery woke up Sunday morning feeling really awful. She just slept on the couch for awhile. Milo tried to make her feel better with his cuddles, but it didn't work. :(

She just kept sleeping... we moved upstairs and hung out in the master bedroom watching movies. Well, I watched them, she slept through most of them.

Then, Monday morning she woke up feeling a little better. About an hour after she woke up, she became super congested with such a runny nose. So, I tested her for Covid and it came back positive. I was kind of surprised (not sure why), so I did a second test. Both clearly positive. Ugh.

Protocol for school now is that the kids have to quarantine for 5 days after the initial symptoms and then they can come back to school. While on quarantine, they will get assignments and call in to class for lessons so they don't have to take sick days (as long as they are feeling up for it).

A couple of Avery's friends wrote her cards and had all of her friends sign it. So cute!

Oh and by the way, turns out Avery's class has a little outbreak of Covid. I think there were 5 or 6 kids with it after the first two days! Morgan's class did not have any kids out with Covid.

Class pictures from the first day

They sent out class pictures from the first day.

Morgan is standing between Tess and Bianca

Avery is standing between Emma and Neena

First day of 4th grade

Oh man, here we go... 4th graders! I can't believe how old they are getting! Morgan has Mr. Miller and Avery has Mrs. Smitley. Avery is in accelerated math again this year, so she goes to 5th grade for math class and has Mrs. Hodkowski. Also, this year Avery is in the gifted program (called Extend). So, every Tuesday, she is bussed to another elementary school for the day and has Mrs. Stickley as her teacher. Good luck girls! We are so proud of you! :)

Milo was not cooperating with the picture taking

Such a yucky first day

As always, we celebrated a great first day with some ice cream!