Grade 3 Finale!

Last bus pick up of Grade 3!

 

The girls had a great year and finished strong. We were so pleased and proud of their glowing report cards. Lovey & Sweetie's teacher said it was an honour to have both of them and the only thing that could have been better would have been to have all 3 in her class. Honey's teacher took a leave for the last couple months of school as part of a pre retirement option so she had Miss A as a supply teacher for the remainder. Their class had a pj party for the last day so that's why she has the wild pants. Acorn wanted in for the photo op!

Once we said our goodbyes & gave the teachers their gifts (homemade chocolate sauce & Chapters money) we headed out for a FroYo lunch. Yep. I totally did. It's dairy & they put some fruit sooooo 2 food groups covered and everybody was full. It's all good :) Actually it was more than good, it was awesomely tasty. For realz. After "lunch" we dropped Acorn off and went to load up on books & join the summer reading program at the library. Honey plans to read 55 & Lovey estimated 40 I think. Being read to counts as 1 and every 15 minutes or 5 chapters also counts. They're well on their way so we'll see how it goes. Actually recording the reading is probably going to be more of a challenge than doing the reading! Sweetie abstained from participating in this so she can read without all the pressure!

After supper, Honey & I headed back downtown to check out the culturefest and got some henna tattoos! A great end to a great kick off to summer vacay!

The Next Installment!

There's nothing Honey hates worse than getting the end of a good book, only to find out it's the first in a series and be left hanging "at a realllllly GOOD part!!!!" I reserved the next books in the 2 series she inadvertently got hooked on and they were available for pick up (great service, check it out online if you haven't tried this yet!). The last one came in on Friday and she wanted to go straight down there and get it right away! Since we were going downtown on Sat anyway and it was close to closing on Friday when I got the notice, I had to torture the poor thing with a day's wait.

She was so excited to check the books out on the self serve terminal and happily posed with her haul afterwards! "I spread the books out so you'd be able to see them all in the picture Mum!" Atta girl Honey!!!

Mummy's Little Bookworm

Look who I found all curled in the rocker this morning when I got up! Honey's been burning through books lately! Grammie got her several last Sunday, I'm pretty sure there were 5 of them and by Friday she had nothing to read.  We were going shopping for a bday present for a party she was going to so I said "bring your wallet, maybe you'll see a book you'd like to get. or we could stop in at the library if you want". Immediately she said "I'll go the library and get books for free Mum!!!" (is that my girl or is that my girl???). So we did. She only picked 3. Two of them are the size of what she's reading in these pictures and the other was a smaller novel about Hannah Montana but she finished that one the same day. She is loving this one now though and can't get enough reading time in! We have definitely succeeded in raising a reader in this kid!

Monday Blur

Another Monday just whipped by! We just barely made it to the bus on time, then Murray left for work, I got ready & headed out for groceries. One of the big pluses about winter for me is that my car becomes an icebox! I got the groceries and left everything in the car when I stopped in to go to a couple classes at the gym on my way home. When I was done, everything that should be frozen was still frozen and the produce stayed cold but not icy. In the warmer months, I have to run home, throw all the cold stuff into refrigeration and then race back to make the 9am class! Tricky stuff let me tell ya!

When I got home I unpacked the groceries and had some lunch, made a lasagna for Murray to throw in for supper and then it was time to get changed and go pick the girls up from school. (exciting day so far, I know!)

Lovey's violin lesson was cancelled today  so we had a little bit of leeway before dance class. I took them to the library to kill time & get homework started. We got some done but it's a pretty distracting place! Lovey & Sweetie thought it would be fun to use honorificabilitudinity as one of their spelling words to work on this week. They can already spell all the grade 2 & 3 sight words and spelling words so they're allowed to picke their own each week. Honey thought she'd like it too, then wrote it out once and said forget it, I'm picking something else!!!that's my sensible girl! LOL

Finally it was time to go to dance class for the first time in 2012. They were excited to get there so the novelty  hasn't worn off yet!