So Long Kindergarten!

After a very disheveled Kindergarten home-school year, Elli somehow finished at the top of her class! Summa cum laude to be exact!  Her parents couldn't be more proud!  Okay, seriously.  After asking me on several occasions last year how to read some notes that were sent to her that were written in cursive, it also provoked an urgency for her to learn how to write "that way" as well.  So at her request, we began in January.  By May she was writing in cursive as if she had been doing it for much longer than just five short months. We also managed to work in some 2nd grade math, 3rd grade spelling (making 100% on the majority of her weekly tests), vocabulary and of course reading.  Awe yes!  Reading!  By the end of the school year, she had finished reading the first twelve books of the NIV Bible, and had read Anne of Green Gables which she began reading in early March.  Now for the summer.....Black Beauty!  And maybe a little summer fun too. Ha!

So, the end of Kindergarten had to be commemorated in a very special way.  Yes indeed, with yummy smoothies in fancy glasses!  And the school mascot even came for the celebration too!!!