Students of the Quarter!

This month we got two invitations, inviting us to a "Student of the Month" dinner that was being held in our "child's" honor! Brooklyn and Paris were both chosen to be students of the month.

When we got to the school, Principal Reed explained that each teacher was told to choose 2 students from their class to be "Students of the Quarter" for the months of August, September, and October. So we were pretty proud of their achievements!

The school had a dinner that was catered by Viva Mexican Grill, Desserts, pictures taken with their teachers, and they scored a bunch of free kids meals from Sonic, Texas Roadhouse, and McDonald's!

Phil and I were really impressed that the school did such a nice job to really make it special! It definitely went above and beyond the usual public school standards...as far as I'm concerned!

Since Paris was in Kindergarten...she was one of the first to go. Her teacher is Ms. Sparks, and this is her first year teaching. She's really sweet with Paris and great with us! We're really happy with her! She basically said that if you were to take two kids and make them the model for all your students it would be Paris and Elan (that's the boy next to her). We were pretty happy! Paris can be a handful at home sometimes...but it doesn't seem to show at school! We were curious how this year would go!

Brooklyn is in 3rd grade so she came a bit later, but was so excited when her name was called! She loves her teacher! Her teacher is Ms. Gravelle and this is her first year teaching also! I've had a couple of opportunities to hang out with her in the classroom and she's totally sweet! She has a rowdy bunch, to say the least, but she loves Brooklyn and is really excited about teaching. She had kind of the same theme...the best two kids were a shoe in! We weren't surprised, she really is a great kid.

Boston didn't seem to care that he wasn't chosen until he saw all the free coupons and fun stuff they scored! Then he began telling us that he was going to really start trying for next time! Boston made it last year as the Student of the Month towards the end of the year by being the most "improved student", so we're kind of hoping for the same thing this year. His teacher loves him and calls me on a bi-weekly basis to ensure that homework and notes are making it home and to let me know when extra praise is needed after doing a great job at something. She's very sweet. (He's incredibly smart when it comes to making homework and important notes disappear when transferring them from the classroom, to his backpack, to the car!) On a good note he pulled off straight "E's" for his first report card! He's been working hard and we're proud of him too.

Picture time with the teachers was fun...because it was in front of everybody...and we didn't have to go up once...but twice! We have a serious clan and it took a while for everyone to get on board! As you can see...this is the best we could pull off! YEAH!