Lauren's Pre-K Graduation

Yesterday, Lauren officially graduated from Pre-K! Hard to believe our little girl is growing up. Time is going way too fast; I hate it. Stacey, myself and Gigi attended the Pre-K ceremony at the elementary school. After the 30 minute ceremony, we all went back to the classroom for some refreshments. Lauren's teacher, Mr. Scott has been absolutely wonderful for her. Lauren has grown up so much this past year. We were initially worried at the beginning of the year because she is going to be one of the youngest in her class. She had just turned 4 when Pre-K started. When Mr. Scott did his initial evaluation on her development, she only scored like a 24, when in fact, kids in Pre-K should have been getting scores of around 45-50. When we received her end of the year scores, she exceeded the scores. She received a 118 when the average range is about 84. We were absolutely thrilled. She has done so well this year in coming out of her shell, opening up, talking more, etc. Pre-K really helped her a lot and we are so glad she was able to have this year to not only grow, but to prepare her for Kindergarten. It is amazing what she already knows - all her ABCs, she can write her full name, is learning lots of great site words, and so much more. Meanwhile, over the past 3 weeks Jack and Caroline have been studying for their SOLs and this past week they took their tests in Reading, Math, Social Studies and Science. Overall, both have done very well this year. Jack who is normally on the Principal's List was just shy of making it each 9 weeks, but made Honor Roll each time! Caroline who is usually on Honor Roll, was just shy of making that, but was on Scholar's List each time. I think they are realizing that each year will progressively get harder which will require them to focus and spend more time studying. We couldn't be more proud of them though. They are all great students and we know they will continue to do well. We finally received Jack's art project that won him 3rd place for Creativity! Check it out. As this school year and chapter comes to a close, we will enjoy our summer of some weekend getaways and summer camps before the next school year begins. Our Pre-K Graduate! Our Budding Artist: