Last Day of School

 Last Friday was the last day of school.  It's hard to believe that the kids are now 4th and 2nd graders.  Yikes!!  Report cards came home too.  I always find it slightly difficult to interpret the x,check,dot,plus system.  Both kids are either proficient or commendable on most things.  We never learned why Jacob needs to improve "following classroom rules" in art.  (Jacob: I do, most of the time).  Allison was given an art award for her "creativity, and outgoing personality" (or something similar to that). 

MAP test results came home too (which is the district-wide testing).  Allison's scores rebounded from her poor winter performance (bad test day?) back to 50th percentile in both math and reading.  She's plugging along where she's supposed to be, but honestly I question a test where kids can go from 60th to 20th to 50th percentiles over the course of a year.  Jacob scored very high in math and high average in reading.  I'm hoping that he'll score high enough in 2nd grade to qualify for the 'TAG' programming because I think that's the only way to get a more challenging math program for him. 

Jacob refused to take a solo picture - but was willing to pose with Keaton, Sam, and Lucas for Keaton's mom (so I snapped a quick one too).