Awards Day

Today was 5th Grade Awards Day at Summit Elementary.  Henry received two awards - the Great American Award and the President's Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence.  Here he is with his Great American Award:

 It's a nice plaster award with his name engraved on it.  He was pretty excited to finally receive his award.  You may remember me posting about his memorization of the Gettysburg Address back in the fall - that was for this award.  In addition, he had to memorize all the US States and capitals, recite the Preamble to the Constitution, recite all of the US Presidents in order, write the Pledge of Allegience with correct spelling and punctuation, write a short report about the meaning of the Oath of Allegience and correctly answer all 100 questions on the Citizenship Test.  He worked really hard all last fall and finished the requirements right before Christmas.  Only six 5th graders (out of 70 or so) received this award because it does take a lot of work to do, but he did it!  And we are so proud of him.

The President's Award was for scoring over 90% on each of his core tests.  Actually quite a few kids won this award, which is so great!  As a matter of fact, the whole 5th grade did so well that they have earned a late night at school tomorrow night - they play dodgeball and capture the flag and eat treats.  Sounds like just the thing to finish out your elementary school career.  After Friday, Henry will be in middle school.  Wow! 

Tomorrow is Tessa's last day of school.  She is so excited to go to school in the morning on the bus with William and Henry!  All the kindergarten kids go in the morning to meet the their 1st grade teachers for next year.  Then they get to have a field day and ice cream before ending their school year with the AR Carnival.  The boys get to go to the AR Carnival as well.  Today they both got to leave school for a fun lunch with their teachers since they earned enough AR points (for reading books and taking comprehension tests on said books) during the school year.

I don't remember the end of school being quite so much fun when I was in school.