Both Wes and Madison got their report cards today and both of them got almost straight A’s with a couple of B+’s thrown in. (Nothing lower than a B+. Wes got more A’s than Madison.)

This is typical for them, so I wasn’t really surprised, although I was glad to see that Madison’s finally starting to improve on doing homework. Every report card she’s had since grade 2 has always been good, but the teachers always say she needs to work on getting her homework done or handed in on time. This is the 2nd report card in a row where the teacher didn’t say that, so yay Madison!

Also enclosed with both of their report cards was a yellow letter that says:

Dear Parents/Guardians,

This is an invitation to attend the Principal’s Achievement Assembly. Your child is on the Principal’s Achievement list this term and will be receiving a certificate of achievement on March 26, 2010. To get on the list students must score a total of 24 or better on the Learning Skills portion of their Report Card. Due to a large number of students on the list (260) [note: out of about 800 kids] we are having two assemblies.

Gr. 1-3 at 9:00am
Gr. 4-8 at 9:45am

Parents/Guardians are invited to attend. I look forward to seeing you there.

Sincerely,
Principal

I realize that a lot of kids are getting this award, but it’s still cool that both of my kids are among them. In fact, it seems that every time there’s any kind of award at school, one or both of them gets one, so in case it isn’t clear, I’m totally proud of them for always doing their best. I think it’s great that the school has awards like these so kids continue to do their best and to maybe push the ones who aren’t to do better. (Or maybe these awards are totally heinous and only make the kids who don’t get them feel bad…that’s an idea to consider too, I suppose.)

Either way, they did awesome, because they are awesome.