The other day we had our moving up day and Nolan was one of those kids that had to keep getting up. Nolan worked very hard this year and received awards for:

All Academic Areas - Three children tied for this reward for having the highest average in the 5th grade

Gold Letter List- Making honor roll all 4 quarters

NYSSMA Solo - medal for a Outstanding grade on his solo

Level 4 exam grades - On the Math, Social Sudies, and Language Arts State Exams

President's Education Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence

Suberban Energy Citizen Award - this was won by 3 children, each who received a dictionary

Way to go Nolan , and we hope that you do as well in middle school as you did in grade school. What a school year two plays, baseball, and Arrow of Light.

The first day of school 2008-2009

While the boys are big readers , Kathryn is different and as someone reminded me, and that is good. For instance she had gone on a nature hike last week at Girl Scout camp and learned alot of different things. Then this week at Cole Park she in turn gave her classmates a nature hike, she pointed out stripped maple trees, wild strawberries ( which they ate while hiking), and so on. Her teacher was so impressed and called her nature girl.

At home she has always been my " country girl" , shoes are optonal, need tadpoles in the spring ask Kathryn, want to find her reading look in a tree. When she does read she perfers fact type books about nature and animals ( um maybe I should place some science books in her reading basket), and she remembers these facts. In the summer she feeds herself breakfast and snacks by going for walks, she eats strawberries, blackberries, rasberries, tomatoes, what ever she may find on her walks.

In her desk is not papers but her " collection" snake skins, bird nests, rocks, dried flowers and so on. Outside in the summer she makes more "collections" under the tree, these are usally live ones that I do not want in my home. All the pets in the house love her ( even when the poor cat wears baby clothes ), and while she had dolls she never played with them, she perfers the stuffed bennie size animals.

I need to slow down and spend some time in Kathryn's world as it is really a very nice world. And did you know that some grass she picks and chews taste like lemon.

Doesn't her world look like so much fun.

Yesterday started early, dh left for work and then I set off to get the younger kids ready for there day trip. Once they were awake I headed off to Sidney tire for new tires. Yes I paid a little bit more for my tires then if I had gone to Sam's club. But I like to support our local business when I can, they are the ones that in turn are there when we need them.

Then it was off to the school to drop off some stuff to the office, and home to get a Conner and Aidan ready to go to Cole Park. Then we enjoyed a good time at the park :

Then it was home for me and Aidan and Conner, the other two went back to school and came home on the bus.

I tried to get in a small nap for me, but it didn't happen. Then it was time for baseball pictures and we found out they are doing a summer thing for the boys, Ok we will try our best to fit it in.

The rest of the day was the normal stuff that happens here every day.