Last Day of School

This morning Tavis and Mollee left the house for the last time as a First Grader and a Second Grader.It has been a good year. Mollee has matured greatly in her responsibilty. She had a rough beginning of forgetting to turn in homework, but second semester she had no troubles. The only major ordeal we had was her forgetting her Bug Project last Friday (that we have worked on all school year saving bugs and storing them in the freezer for this project). Thankfully, her Uncle Jon lives a few doors down and usually runs a few minutes later than the Browns so he was able to pick it up and take it when he dropped off his boys.

Tavis was a different story. The first semester of the year, we never saw his Tuesday folder (the one full of the previous weeks paperwork) on Tuesday. He'd leave it somewhere. I'm still waiting to hear from the librarian what the damage is for library books that he misplaced. He has two lunch boxes (one from kindergarten and one from 1st grade) that he alternated between, along with brown bags, because he'd forget to bring one of them home. Of course, I'd ask him to visit the Lost and Found to find them and he'd forget, but Mollee would always bring it home the next day because she went and found it for him (that sounds like something her mommy did for her brothers). Yesterday they cleaned out their desks and were told to put everything in their bookbag. Let me give you a sample of what Tavis' desk looks like (old notes that I had found out later that I missed and there were two old lunches in there - sound familiar Uncle Philip??).

I'm hoping to stay on top of math facts review and making the kids read (unfortunately, they don't just do it because they like it) for 30 minutes a day this summer. OK, that is my goal, we'll see if it happens. Summer Break, here we come!