James Makes Honor Roll

We got a real big surprise today when James came home with an honor roll certificate for the fourth quarter. This is Jame’s second honor roll this year so like we did when he got his first one we took him out to celebrate. He had a chocolate/vanilla swirl dipped in chocolate at the Dairy Queen, and got a Wii point card for his Nintendo Wii system. We know James had to work hard to earn the certificate this quarter and we are all so very proud of his achievement(s).

James last day of school is Thursday and we do have a few surprises for him on that day as well.

Edited: June 12th, 2012

James Makes Honor Roll

Yes its true, no one was more stunned than us, but it appears James turned it up at school and really did well this marking period, making the Honor roll and getting several awards including an award for improvement in reading. His behavior has been much better as well, although in a recent parent/teacher meeting the teachers said James gets a little anxious the last half hour of school and if he causes them trouble thats usually the time.

We are all proud of James and when we got the news from school took James out to Walmart and bought him a video game he had wanted (we were going to get it for him for Christmas anyhow). Hopefully he can continue winning awards at school and making his family proud.

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Edited: November 27th, 2011

James Starts Second Grade

School days are here again ! James arose a few minutes before 7 AM and got ready for school. Mommy supervised as he dressed in a new pair of shoes, a new shirt, and new shorts and socks. Last year, James and Mommy watched Curious George together while waiting for the bus. This morning, he was too excited to watch.

At approximately quarter after seven, the bus pulled up and Mommy walked with him to meet the bus for the first time. James, of course, carried his new Toy Story 3 backpack. Barb is the new school bus driver. Pearl is the attendant. James and Pearl are well-acquainted since Pearl was the attendant on the bus that he rode last year. A little boy from our block will be riding the bus with James for the first time this year. Unfortunately, the child attends a different school than James.

James is once again attending Hoover Elementary in Lincoln Park. Mr. Elia will be James’ teacher for the second year in a row. As always, Dad documents James’ milestones with photographs. Share James’ excitement and nervousness by looking at Dad’s photo gallery.

Edited: September 8th, 2010

James 1.80 Financial Setback & Mary’s Ford Fusion

It’s been a while since posting here, most of Feb was spent shoveling snow. Jame’s school work is still going very well and his speech improves every day. He had a couple of snow days in February.

Last week Mary, Peg, James, and myself went to Kroger. Each Sunday James returns the bottles and cashes in the money for candy or toys. This week was no exception and James pushed all the bottles into the machine and got his receipt for $1.80 which he put in his pocket and we made our way to the cashier. Unfortunately the lines were way way long and James did not want to wait, so he found him mom and gave her the receipt and James and I walked out toward the car (we usually listen to the radio when Peg/Mary are grocery shopping). As we were walking to the car, James looks up at me, a look of frustration in his face, and says. “$1.80, All Gone”.

Mary turned in her 10 year old Kia and got a Ford Fusion so my father can stop rolling over in his grave that we bought a Japanese car. The car served its purpose, but was 10 years old with a broken seat and a few other malfunctions. We only have one picture of the new car because it has been buried in snow most of the time in the driveway. Thanks to our neighbor Allen who works for Fords and got us something called a “friend and family” discount.

Edited: March 7th, 2010

Some Heavy Arithmetic

Another good day of school work, some large math problem, check them out. He also got stars on some of his sentences but I did not have a chance to scan them.

Each night before he goes to sleep, we go over his homework and he is proud that his work is showing up on the family site.
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Edited: January 14th, 2010

Red Star Day

James had another good day today according to his teacher. He got a Red Star on the sentences that he wrote. There are actually 2 pages, back and front, but I only scan the one with the red star, besides, I think most readers will get the idea. I am sure reading sentences written by a first grader isn’t the most exciting thing in the world, unless you are his parents or relatives, then its awesome.

Edited: January 12th, 2010

Good Job James

Thats what the teacher is writing on James paper, say what you want about the little trouble maker but he is a smart kid. The teacher wrote that James had a fantastic day in school today so once again he got to play his Scooby Doo game, and when he was finished, he and Dad put together the Scooby Doo puzzle he got the other day with his Christmas money. We then played with the learning game he got for Christmas and then he helped me scan his homework as we went over it.

I watched him play the Scooby Doo game and noticed that James has to buy things and save up money (or Scooby Snacks) to pay for things, perhaps thats why he did so well his first time out buying things. He had been practicing with the Scooby Doo game.
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Edited: January 11th, 2010

James finishes week on high note

James had a great day in school today, both discipline wise and smarts wise. He was allowed to play his Scooby Doo game and he was ecstatic. James did very good on all his work sheets, in fact most were perfect scores. We scanned some of his school work and then james ran off to play more Scooby. In fact, he is playing it while I am doing this, but have no fear, he will see this post shortly, we always review his schoolwork whether we post it on the internet or not, but he enjoys reviewing it online better.

I snapped this picture of James in his glory, good day at school and everyone is happy. Michigan is pretty well dug out from yesterdays snow and the area looks quite picturesque
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Edited: January 8th, 2010

The First Big Snowstorm

We have been dodging the bullet for some time now, but today we finally got hit with an actual snowstorm, 3-6 inches which made driving a little rough today.

James and I went over his schoolwork, he worked on several letters and identified properly the drawings on each. We then took out the staples from the papers and scanned them. James helped by stapling the papers back together. He was a perfect little gentleman and worked the stapler part of the project perfectly. We’ll work on his train track tonight then maybe watch a little television. Hopefully there is school tomorrow, should be, the snow has stopped for now.
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Edited: January 7th, 2010

James Returns to School for 2010

James had a big day today, returning to school after a 2 week layoff. His teacher said he had a great day (in the past, some of James’ return to school after long lay offs were not as good). We checked his schoolwork and everything looked complete so we gave James congrats then let him have some of his candy from the holidays and play Scooby Doo on the video game.

A good day at school for James, Yeah! We are hoping that posting his work on the website will make him strive to do better, only time will tell if it works but we’re going to try it.
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Edited: January 4th, 2010