Star Student in the Family

Olive was chosen to be the first star student of the year in her class and it totally made her week!  She was so excited to be singled out for being a great role model, leader and kid with good behavior to start out the school year.  She's been all sunshine and rainbows this week.

We made her poster last weekend and it's been on display all week.  She had a vision for her poster and I was just the supply buyer.  Meijer had tons of fun things - glitter framed poster board, poster kit with letters and shapes and glue sticks.  She picked out her pictures, placed them and wrote out all her important information.  I was just the glue lady making sure everything was glued in place.

Her teacher has gone above and beyond to make her feel special, loved and encouraged this year.  I can't remember if I've mentioned it here or not, but Olive made her teacher a back to school bracelet and gave it to her at meet the teacher night.  Her teacher has worn it every day since school started and Olive was beyond thrilled.  As a mom, It made me so happy to see her teacher getting to know her and connect with her right away.

Every teacher seems to run star student week differently.  Be sure to check and see what the teacher wants.  Olive's teacher had specific papers to fill out, information to include on the poster and special things in the classroom (special chair, special poster spot, line leader, etc.)

Olive loved presenting her posters to the class.
What a fun week of first grade!

Star student was definitely the highlight of our week.  The rest of the week drug by and was filled with plenty of hard moments.  Fletcher got 4 staples in his head on Saturday so that kind of changed our plans for the week.  We spent most of the week at home taking it easy.  Then we went to get the staples taken out yesterday and it didn't go well.  They took one out and he started bleeding.  I was not expecting that and it was hard on both of us.  The nurses decided he needed more time to heal and I have to take him back to try that process again next week.  Pray for us because removing 1 staple was traumatic and we still have 3 to go!

We're planning a quiet weekend at home.  No bikes, no swimming and still trying to keep Fletcher from reinjuring his head as it heals.  We have gone on some sweet family walks in the evenings though.  Hoping for a calm, quiet, sweet weekend at home.

It's time to link up with my favorite blogging buddies for High Five for Friday.  Join us with a few different blog posts and be sure to look around to find some new blog friends

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Tif @ Bright on a Budget
Whitney P @ Come Home for Comfort

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