June 17th was the last day of school for Cummings Elementary, as well as other Dept. of Defense Pacific schools. This school year has gone by very quickly for me. Katya finished first grade. I must say that she is a very low maintenance student so far. I only had to go to her parent-teacher conference once and only heard great things about her. I realized that I need to be more involved in her learning process when one day she came home and told me all about this special reading theater they are doing with "Make Way for Ducklings" book and about how she is making a diorama. I guess, Katya was taking part in the Enrichment program for 1st graders in their school, which is equivalent to the Talented and Gifted program in older classes. I didn't even remember when her teacher recommended her for that.
I also didn't realize how great of a reader Katya was compared to most of her classmates until Ms. Smith emailed me and invited me to come to the awards ceremony where Katya was getting a Remarkable Reader Award:) I was so proud of my little girl! The best part is that she is being very humble about all of her achievements. And that makes me want to praise her even more.
On the last Tuesday of the school year, her Enrichment teacher, Ms. Winstead arranged for all her Talented and Gifted Program students show what they've been working on all year. Some kids wrote books, others created complicated devices or wrote research papers. Katya's group presented theatrical reading, kites that they built from plastic bags and dioramas.
Molodets', Katya. I hope 2nd Grade will be as much fun as this year, especially because Katya gets to keep her teacher and most of her classmates!!!
This is Katya and Ms.Smith (can you tell that Ms.Smith is over 50 years old?!)
But that will be next year....For now we are enjoying "not so planned" days of summer. Two more months to go:)
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