Wrapping Up First Grade

Savannah leading her class

Mrs. Safran's Class Flag Delegate, Savannah Bachmann!

 In normal PSE fashion, the annual Celebration of Nations school wide parade was today.  It's a pretty neat event where each grade level is assigned a region to study and then each individual class studies a specific country in that region.  1st graders always represent Asia and Savannah's class studied South Korea.  I had no idea that she would be chosen as the student to represent the class, but we both were super excited when she got the news.  Apparently the TD teacher chooses one student in each class to work with in preparing lessons, worksheets, and handouts to teach their class about the particular country and then the chosen student gets to be the flag bearer at the parade of nations too!  So after a few weeks of research and preparation, today was Savannah's day!!!  She was so excited to lead her class in front of the entire school . . and I have to say that I was one proud mama too. :)

The first grade dance

 After the entire school parades in, each individual grade level comes back up to do a dance representing their region.  Here is Savannah doing their dance.

And if that wasn't enough fun for one day, we also chose today to celebrate Savannah's summer birthday at school.  The cookie cake was ordered and Mrs. Safran had it on her calendar so Savannah got to wear the birthday crown and everything!  Preston was super excited about going to Sissy's big school and having lunch with her, and even more excited when he found out that he got to have a piece of cookie cake! 

Savannah and Preston excited about celebrating her birthday

Handing out the birthday cookie cake, yummy!

On a funny note, right after this picture, Savannah wanted to help me pass out the cookies to her friends.  I said that was fine and we started on the other side of the table.  Preston saw that we didn't start with him and started pouting so we went around and gave him a piece, but I told him he had to eat his sandwich first.  Well then he started crying.  Savannah says "well, this is embarrassing." Ha!  Thankfully I finally just told him to sit down and eat the cookie and he stopped crying. 

It's been a wonderful year and I can't be more proud of this girl and all that she has accomplished in such a short time.  She has matured quite a bit and has far surpassed any expectations I had academically too.  Just in AR tests alone she has taken and passed 100 tests (103.7 pts) . . . the requirement for 5th grade is only 125 points per year!