Faust Favorites: 55 days

We're 55 days into the school year, or something close to that, according to Kayla. This week was parent-teacher conferences and report card week at school which meant four half-days of school - for all of us! We had a fun week with lots of friend play dates, putting up Christmas decorations, attending conferences... In Kayla's words, and I quote, "This is such a special day for me!"

Kayla gets herself up and out of bed, dressed, bed made, and hair done ALL BY HERSELF every morning!

A room full of 6 year olds is just too cute

I got to spend a day in Kayla's classroom helping 25 kids make red and yellow hand prints on the front and back of their field trip t-shirts. They turned out so cute, and we ALL had fun!

(Although, as it turns out, standing hunched over a table for four hours really hurts your back, which you won't really notice until 8 hours later which, at that time, you won't be able to move)

We love Mrs. Raymo! A person who spends their day with 25 non-stop moving, talking, energetic, inquisitive 6 and 7 year olds is AMAZING! AND and and she's a full-time working mom of FIVE kids AND has an air cast on now too!

One of our play dates - we invited Madison, Marisa and Addison over for the afternoon!

We ate lunch, made a Thanksgiving Day owl craft, watched a movie (actually two), played outside, made cookies and had hot chocolate and popcorn. They had a great time! I think Madison and Marisa are happy to be around only girls for once and not their three older brothers. They also LOVE Khloe which I figured out is because it's (finally!) someone smaller than them that they can easily love on and shower with attention!

Kayla is thriving and excelling in school. It's a blessing to have a child that not only does well in school, but loves school. She never complains about school, homework, her teacher or classes.

In first grade there are only two subjects for which kids progress is tracked - reading/writing and math. Kayla excels in math and has passed all of her math tests with 100%. But where Kayla truly excels is reading. When Kayla tested into first grade she was already at the end of a first grade reading level. Now, just 55 days later, she is testing at the end of a 2nd grade level! It's amazing to hear her read chapter books and difficult books so fluently! She passed level 7 of 9 levels of spelling words (most kids in her class are at level 4) and once she passes level 9 Mrs Raymo will move her into 2nd grade spelling word lists. We are quite proud, but not as surprised. Kayla is a very focused, driven, independent girl who loves to give her best to everything she does.

Well, after a great conference, the reward for all this hard work was a trip to Chuck E. Cheese! Kayla was SOOOOOO excited for this and Khloe jumped right on that bandwagon. Khloe was excited for "Chuck E Cheezit's" too! We had a great family night spending 50 tokens playing every game!