I do these kind of posts mostly for my benefit. It's so I can remember how Caitie is doing in school each semester. My memory isn't the best, so I'm not sure if I've included everything or not. Below are a few pics from the last few weeks...
Caitie's class, along with all the other first grade classes, went on a field trip to the Desert Outdoor Center at Lake Pleasant in February. Caitie went there last July at Summer Camp, and enjoyed it as much this time around as she did then. She's interested in the history of Arizona and desert life, etc. Here she is the morning of the field trip. The kids took sack lunches with disposable water bottles for their lunch. I put sunscreen on Caitie and she wore a hat. Most of their time was spent outside on the field trip, so I wanted to make sure she didn't get sunburned.
The classes were boarding the bus... a second bus came just after I took the two pics below.
Bailey waiting to wave at the buses.
I took this pic after picking Caitie up from school. She got a park ranger badge at the end of the field trip.
Caitie was picked as Star Student the week after the field trip. All the kids are picked at some point, and it was finally Caitie's turn. She had to fill out and color the poster shown in the pic below and fill out a page in a journal. When she told of the important things in her life, the first thing she wrote was her love for God and Jesus. So sweet. :) She also had show & tell and spoke in front of the class.
Here is what she took for show & tell. We went hiking and found this lava rock; it's the shape of a heart.
This isn't the best pic... it was 'turn your back on disrespect day', which is one of the Character Counts days; the kids were to wear a yellow shirt backwards. So in this pic Caitie is wearing a yellow sweater backwards and she's soaked from the pouring rain. It was a windy, cold, rainy day. Here she's holding her 'star student' award and ribbon.
These are pics I took of Caitie for each Character Counts Day.
On one of the Character Counts days she wore green with crazy socks. Caitie asked Bailey to help her color her white socks with markers. Gotta love her worn-lookin' shoes.
On another day that week she wore purple. This happened to be on the student-led conference day. You don't actually meet with the teacher unless you feel you need to, you are led by your child around the room while they explain what each area is and what they do each day. You then pick up their report card. I did talk with the teacher a bit. She told me Caitie's doing really well and that she's ready for second grade. I took a quick pic of them together.
This is a board outside her classroom. Each child had a Dr. Seuss report and picture on the board. Caitie's is above where she's standing. (bailey was dressed in purple too for 'citizenship day')
Caitie's holding her report card. It was the same as the other two she received this year. I hope she keeps up the good work. :)
Field Day was held on the last Character Counts Day. The kids were to wear rainbow colors. It was a half-day of school. The kids do all kinds of games on the field. Caitie was in a relay race in the first pic below. She's the one with a pink top and a beige hat.
Here she is playing 'flag tag'.
I didn't go on the field this time due to having to deal with Bailey wanting to run free and getting in the way of the activities. So we stayed on the other side of the fence. Here she is playing in some dirt by the fence. She had fun.
Caitie was in a water race below. She's in the pink top. She's not wearing her hat; she took it off about halfway through the activities.
That weekend was St. Patrick's Day. She still believes there's a leprechaun. She got into this due to a leprechaun trap project she did in Kindergarten last year. So I went along with it again this year and helped her build a trap. I also gave her clues to find items in the morning and through the day. It was fun.
I didn't get a good pic of the girls on St. Patrick's Day, but I did take this quick pic the next morning before taking Caitie to school. Caitie looks half asleep (she's holding her hand that way due to wanting to show off her new greenish gold nail polish she got the day before. ha). She's holding one of the things she got for St. Patty's Day. And then there's bedhead Bailey. ha Her hair looks wild. She's wearing some beads the girls got as well. Bailey is holding a rubber spider. Yes, she's into insects and things right now.
The school had the duck race again this year. The money donated went to the Diabetes Foundation, so it was for a good cause. Caitie is holding her little rubber duck she got for the race. It didn't win, but she loves it anyway. ha
I took this pic of the girls one day after school. I like how it turned out, so decided to include it in this post.
