Lucia and her best friend Deirdre getting ready for the band concert.
She got a new outfit for the occasion
In Sylvia’s classroom. She made so many friends this year! I was so worried about kids not accepting her, but they love her! She’s been invited to numerous birthday parties this year. She’s made a lot of progress academically as well. She got into all of her Kindergarten 5 clubs. She really liked memorizing and reciting the nursery rhymes this year. She loves her teacher Mrs. Fitzpatrick. She’s an excellent teacher. She also had lots of support from her two wonderful aides-Mrs. Guarducci and Mrs. Johnson and her OT and Speech Therapist. It’s amazing what kindergartners are expected to learn these days-reading multi-word books, adding and subtracting, counting by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, writing complete sentences. They are pretty advanced. She’s ready for 1st grade!
Lucia and Mrs. Blake. It was so hot in her classroom, we didn’t linger very long in there. Lucia was a quiet student, but Mrs. Blake said, when she had something important to say, she would raise her hand and it was always very insightful. She doesn’t socialize much, but she has her best friend and a few other that are in her “comfort zone”. She enjoys playing tether ball at recess. Lucia excelled to an 8th grade reading level this year. She enjoyed the Lemony Snickett series and finished all 13 books in 5 weeks! She is a reading machine! She still really enjoys art, but I think it’s taking a back seat to reading. Another project she enjoyed this year was her mission report. We actually visited San Juan Bautista and so she had first hand experience. I did art docent in her class this year and she had a wonderful group of kids. I really enjoyed spending time with them.
Grandma and Grandpa came too.
Marco and Mrs. Komar (he was embarrassed about taking a picture, so she was talking him through it and bribing him). She is one enthusiastic teacher and she really loves kids! She really helped Marco to excell in reading this year as well. He went from a level J to a level N-right at grade level. Marco loves math and he loves to RUN! He runs at recess and every chance he gets outside. He’s not the most social kid either-but he has his running buddies. His class was almost all boys this year. Marco learned a lot about non-fictional texts and he did a research report on beavers-they actually typed it up on the computer, illustrated it and printed it out in book form! They are becoming techies at this school too!
His life timeline.
Marco was the 4th highest lap runner in the school and he got a medal for it at the assembly.
Lucia and the band playing their last concert together.
I really enjoyed subbing at Trajan the last couple of months. I finally got my foot in the door there, so hopefully I will be able to sub there a lot more next year. I really love the students and staff there. It makes a huge difference! I might be biased, but the kids at Trajan are so much better than at other schools. 
.. She’s growing up too fast, but we are so grateful to have her in our lives.
