Accelerated Reader!

Grace came home from school last week with big news. She was moved up to the accelerated reading level in kindergarten! When she came in the door she was beaming and told me the whole story of how it happened. It was something about not being able to find a book in the EFG books and then she couldn't find one in the HIJ books either. Then Mrs. Heim just asked her if she wanted to get a book from the library in accelerated reader. She said yes so Eileen, a little girl in her class, took her to the library and showed her where the books where that she could check out. She is on "gray dot" books. She was so excited to get to check out her reading books from the library. Until now she was bringing home little level reader books, not "real" library books. She kept asking me if I wanted her to tell me how it happened again. I think she told me the story about 3 times that afternoon. This is a picture of her reading her first AR book. I tried to have her dictate to me the story of how it happened later that night but I guess she had forgotten some of the story by then. It was changing from earlier in the afternoon and not really making sense. She has really progressed a lot in her reading and writing in the last couple of months. We're so proud of her for working so hard!