Summer Break - Official

Well, 9 1/2 weeks of insanity has begun in this house. The girls enjoyed their last day of school yesterday, and they are now officially on  Summer Break! I, sadly, have one more week of torture left, and then I will be enjoying myself as well.  


As soon as I picked up the girls, I knew they had a great final day of school. It was Field Day on campus which is a great idea sparked somewhere AFTER I finished school myself - just play on the final day. You can see why I didn't have to ask if they had fun:

 The afternoon winds here suck in the High Desert, so I made the girls take another picture while holding their hair back/down so the wind would not take it everywhere.  Of course, the picture of Jordan's hair flying around is pretty funny.

We picked up the pizza for the Friday Family Night.  I splurged and ordered out from Nick's Pizza II. I would have taken the girls there, but the service SUCKS! and we won't go into the restaurant anymore.  However, it was great to call ahead the order, have it ready right away and enjoy it at home. Since Ken was with his buddies all day, I made sure to get a picture of the girls on my phone to text to him.

During my morning errands, I thought it would be cool to celebrate with the girls on their promotion to the next grade levels. The Cake Shop was busy with their orders for the weekend, but they still had a Black Forest cake in the cooler. 


The girls LOVED having a celebration of their hard work throughout the year. They had already peeked at their report cards, so they were certain that I wouldn't be too angry about them, and they had each seen that they were, in fact, promoted to the next grade level.

Now, we'll spend the summer working on their summer packets, and I will get to double-check and see if the report cards are correct. Mandy got straight 4's and one 5 which is all at grade level and one above which is good. Taylor is still struggling, but she is holding at grade level, and Jordan is off the chart with everything.  Her behavior section was straight E's for the first time EVER which is nice to see! She is still struggling to behave, but she's been working hard.  I know that yelling at her teacher during the year helped out (there was a conversation between her and me where I explained if she kept making excuses about how many students in her class - it was time to quit, etc.).


Math still seems to be an area where all three are struggling, so that will be where I focus on this summer with them as well as maintaining their writing structure/abilities and reading for fun.  Whew! It will be busy, but luckily they like the Summer Break Schedule.