And the award for Miss Congeniality goes to...

Mia just got her first report card for Kindergarten.  She passed with flying colors and got a wonderful note from the teacher.  It said:

"Mia is a delightful girl.  She pays attention and is eager to learn in school.  Mia has been consistently progressing.  She is beginning to use inventive spelling in her writings.  Mia works and plays well with the other children in the class.  It is a pleasure to have Mia in the class."  Ms. Yau

Other than not knowing what it means to use "inventive spelling" we are of course very pleased with this report card, but not surprised at all.  She has really been enjoying school and has made lots of friends.  She is in love with a little Italian boy named Giovanni Silva.  They are on the same soccer team.  He has been away on vacation for a couple of weeks now and she is missing him.  Whenever we are walking into or away from school almost every kid we pass knows Mia's name.  She has made friends really easily and relates to the kids in her class as well as she does the kids in the second grade  Even with all her new friends, Naomi Brill (who is in the second grade) is still her best friend.  They can barely stand to go two days without seeing each other and when they do, they act like long lost sisters when they are finally reunited.  They play so well together and love each other very much.  They talk often about what they will do when they have to be parted for us to move back to Texas.  I tell them not to worry, that it is still a long ways off before that will happen.  It will be very hard for them though I think when it is time for us to leave.  

Oh yeah, the grades thing in kindergarten is different.  They don't get letter grades and they also do not get pass/fail or anything like that.  The grading system is like this:

S - Secure, the skill has become second nature....

P - Progressing, The child has developed a mid-range level of the specific skill...

H - Having difficulty  (and there are others too, but Mia didn't get anything other than S's and P's)

She mostly got S's, with a few P's in there.  P's were in social things like listening and transitioning from one activity to another which I imagine is difficult for most kindergarteners who have not been in another type of school environment previously.  

We are soo soo proud of her!  I miss her so much now that she is in school all the time.  Above is a picture of her proudly holding her first report card and a picture of her with Naomi from their last sleepover.