June 23, 2009

Only a couple days left

and she will officially be in grade 1. Unbelievable, she is growing so fast and this year has truly made some dramatic changes. At the beginning of the year, she knew letters, some phonics, numbers to 20. Now, well its truly amazing me. She reads books - level 1-2 early readers, writes stories, lists, any words she wants, colours in the lines, cuts/ tapes and staples papers together to create books, counts beyond 100, knows her numbers and can tell time. Her vocabulary has expanded exponentially and she is no longer struggling with "fronting" her sounds. The speech therapy this year really helped her out.

She has developed closer friendships through this year too. Its so nice to see these developing and becoming so important to her. Getting phone calls for play dates and handing out her phone number - I'm sure I'll be getting sick of this eventually but right now it is just too cute.

They completed graduation on June 18th. Thought I would share some pictures of her in her graduation hat, receiving her diploma from her teacher.