Schools Out!

If you are anything like me, you get so excited for the last day of school and this year was no exception. I could even say I was even more excited than usually. I couldn't wait for a break and to have some fun with the kids this summer (this teaching your child stuff is no joke). We were sad to say goodbye to Mrs. Nelson for the year (Hopefully, we will get her for a teacher again. It was great.) Odyssey had a close out assembly for the year at Artemus Ham Hall where families could come and the children got awards for their accomplishments for the year. My parents were able to come down and join us.

Barry Bretton recieved a few awards this year. He was on the Straight A Honor Roll, he got the principals writing award (for an essay he wrote) and also received The Shinning Star Award (given to k-2nd grade students who have straight A's and E's for the whole year). So we are super proud of him.

I have thought back through the year and remember many of the things we have done and how Barry Bretton has grown. He has came a far way but the one thing I have to write about is reading. Some kids like sports; Some kids like video games; Barry Bretton is a genuine book worm. You hardly see him with out a book in his hand. So I started to make a list of all the books I remember him reading since September and it is crazy! So here is the list (the list only contains the chapter books I can remember and doesn't included all his 1st grade required reading or picture style books):

23 Nate the Great

26 A to Z Mysteries

34 Magic Tree Houses

10 Magic Tree House Research Guides

5 Horrible Harry

6 Ready Freddy

12 Amelia Bedelia

5 Arthur

6 Dinosaur Cove

5 Stanley

Nessie and the Living Stone

Pippa the Poppy Fairy

The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo

Homer Price

Frindle

Wayside School is Falling Down

Ramona and Her Father

Dear Mr. Henshaw

A Flying Birthday Cake

The Mount Rushmore Calamity

That is almost 150 books my freinds! and some of them he read more than once. I think that is more books than I have read in my life (I guess that is why I think it is so amazing). So if you have any summer reading suggestions, pass them our way.