2nd Grade Here He Comes

Vincent finished off 1st grade yesterday and is officially a 2nd grader. Vincent had his school awards assembly earlier in the week and I was so proud of my son. The school he attends has a policy that every child gets an award of some kind so that they do not just acknowledge one child. Vincent won several awards and was the highest academic child in the 1st grade. Here are the awards he won.

Vincent got a poetry award for reciting "Boa Constrictor" at the school level, then won and went on to the district level, and then county level. I was so amazed his teacher got him to do it.

Vincent got a math award for his high achievements in Math. The teacher announced while giving him this award that Vincent really dislikes Math, and tried to get out of it or procrastinates doing it but he is really good at it.

Vincent earned the Reading Award. This one was kind of funny too, as each grade has leveled reading. They have to read at a level 14 to be considered proficient in that grade level of reading. While she was handing out the awards there were a lot of kids who received level 14, 15 & 16. When Vincent for up she said he has received a Reading Award for reading at a level 20. There were a few gasps followed by clapping for the teacher to add, "A level 20 in 2nd grade!"

This award I think takes the top in funny. Vincent received a spelling award and never practiced his spelling words once. Vincent attends G.A.T.E. two days a week at school and his G.A.T.E. teacher happened to be his regular school day classroom teacher. She was sending home different homework for him then she was the rest of the class. She was sending home work that reflected what he was working on in G.A.T.E. It totally slipped her mind to send home spelling words with him as she did in all the other kids homework packets, but he was also receiving 100% every week on his test so she didn't blink an eye. It did not occur to her until one day when a little girl in his class got upset that she was not doing well on her tests and so the teacher told her that she needed to start doing her spelling homework and she would probably do better. Vincent announced that he never practiced his spelling during homework and he always gets 100%. It was then she realized how good of a speller he was as she was not sending words home to practice, and the kid could still pull off a 100%

Finally Vincent received a "Character Counts Award" in the pillar of Respect.

WAY TO GO VINCENT!