Today we attended Connor's First Grade Award Ceremony where he received the two awards above. No doubt, he earned the Most Improved Reading award. At the beginning of the year his teacher was SERIOUSLY concerned about his reading abilities, but with the help of a great Reading Specialist, Lisa Schwarz, he's reading at grade level now. And he actually enjoys it because he's figured out that if he can read he can meddle in more stuff and he'll have a better idea about what's going on around him. As to the Arts and Sports Achievement award, well, we don't really know what that's for. Honestly. Only about 10-15 kids got it out of 7 first grade classes, so he must have done something to earn it, but it wasn't really well explained. He was so happy when they called him up for the small group and we clapped and hollered. But later, in the car, he even asked us "What was that for?". Too funny. The truth is that it really doesn't matter. We think Connor is great, even if some days we don't quite know why either!
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