May--Ryan

Ryan had a few exciting things happen this month.

The kindergarners got to have an egg drop.

 Ryan wanted a parachute and cotton balls all around the egg. It worked and his egg survived!

 We watched some Reimann kids for a few hours one day and everyone got out the dress ups.

 Ryan's was the funniest by far.

 I was kind of dreading the Reading Fair Projects with Ryan since he stopped loving homework months ago and it usually was like pulling teeth to get him to do it. But he finally got excited about doing it on the book Creepy Carrots and every day wrote on one more carrot about the plot or the main characters, or whatever. It turned out to be a lot less painful than I thought it would be. He did a great job.

 And he got second place out of all the kindergarteners, so he was pretty proud of himself for a job well done.

Ryan made me this for Mother's Day.

 It says: My mom's name is Clleet
She is 37 years old.
She is as pretty as: a flowr.
She smells like: a flowr.
I love it when she: play with me.
If I could buy her anything I would buy her a: bread.
I lover my mom more than: enebude. (anybody)

I've been volunteering all year in Ryan's class and it's been fun getting to know his classmates and his teacher. Mrs. Parks is just great. We've loved her so much. This last month they've had duck and chick eggs in an incubator. The duck egg hatched first and I got to supervise the reading group that came to watch the duck, then write a sentence about it and draw a picture about it. 

 The kids were supposed to keep their hands in their laps and just observe. It was really hard for some of the kindergartners to control themselves when the duck got so close. They named the duck Fluffy.

One night my neighbor, who happens to be the parapro in Ryan's class (Mrs. Hager) called me and asked if we wanted to babysit Fluffy overnight. I knew that would make everyone's day so I said yes. Annie especially was excited to have a pet for a night.

 She even tried reading to Fluffy.

That duck is such a spoiled little pet, if we left him alone in a room for 2 minutes he would start chirping and chirping. As soon as we walked back into the room he quieted down. He just didn't want to be lonely. I was afraid that he would do that all night long, but after about 5 minutes with the lights turned out he quieted down. We are glad we could have him for one night (and no more). It served to remind us why we are happy without pets, though fanned the flames of the kids wanting a pet.

Ryan got into Daddy's clothes and convinced Megan to dress up in my clothes (she changed before I got a picture). They had quite a fun time being Mommy and Daddy for a while.

Ryan is still loving Karate or Kung Fu or whatever it is he's learning. 

 He had a belt test and got moved up from yellow belt to yellow with white stripe belt.

 He wanted both me and Jacob to come to the belt ceremony (last time only Jacob went because it doesn't even start until 8pm). We got a babysitter this time so we could both go and it made his day.

 The last big thing of the month was kindergarten graduation.

 The kids sang a few songs, then got their diplomas.

 Afterwards we headed back to the classroom for pictures and party time.

 Ryan with his friend Micah:

 (Ryan took off his button up shirt as soon as he could--he put it over his t-shirt when he was getting dressed that morning just so he could take it off ASAP.)

Ryan and his buddies Caleb and Easton:

 Ryan and Megan:

 I'm glad these two love each other so much.

And Ryan and Mrs. Parks The Great:

 They made this great collage of some of the highlights of Kindergarten:

He sure had a great year and has improved his reading and LOVES math.