Another day

School Started for the 4 youngest children.

Erin was a lot more cooperative this year.

Last year, refused to let me take a picture of her,

she was going thru a rebellious stage.

This year

all smiles

 She started 9th grade and now is a high schooler. She was excited about school, but also very reserved with it as many changes has happen at the deaf school and she unsure about it all.  When she came home tonight she said school was ok, but that it was good to see her friends.  Pray that she will start taking more interest in school as last year, she was discouraged more then once with school.

 Was able to get a picture off all 4 of them before Erin had to catch the bus.

 Happy 4 grader.  She has a new teacher and her class was combined so it is 2 teachers with 60 kids.  This will be challenging for Katie.  Right now she can't wear her glasses and she is deaf in one ear.  The room is pretty big and they have a smart board on each end of the combined rooms.  She did a good job and picked the middle of the room and hopefully that will be good enough for her.  She is pretty good about speaking up for herself and making sure the teachers know if she is struggling with seeing or hearing.

 Proud 2nd grader.  She got to keep the same teacher and classmates.  We pray she will stay challenged enough as she struggled with that this last year. Her reading is almost as good as Monika and her math isn't to far behind.  We are also going to work on not saying "negative" comebacks and comments, to be more positive.

Monika is in 5th grade and entering her last year in elementary school.  She also got to keep the same teacher and classmate.  This teacher really challenged Monika last year and made Monika really work which paid off at the end of the year as she got really good scores on the MAC testing.  Monika enjoys school but doesn't like the homework at all.  This is her challenge.  She made some personal goals and I pray that she will be successful in most or all of the goals.