The Big Promotion!

Once again, you just never know what is going to happen on a given day. Including today! I had a meeting with some of the staff at Gabe's school today and starting tomorrow, Gabe will be promoted to the 2nd grade!! His testing came out so above average in all the academic areas that there was no question that he needed to be in the higher grade. In addition, Gabe will get to go to a special room for the morning each day where he will work on the things he is behind in like reading comprehension, writing, and social skills. Then he will go to the regular 2nd grade room for the rest of the day for math and science and social studies. The other REALLY neat thing about this is that there will be aides in his classrooms ALL DAY except for when he goes to special classes like art and computers and music. It is just so amazing. We are so excited for him and know this is going to be such a positive change for him. So we couldn't let the change go by without a celebration!!! My mom (who is in town) is taking us out to Buffalo Wild Wings to celebrate. We are going to have balloons and a small party for him to encourage him in this exciting event!! He, for those of you who know him well, is going to be on CLOUD NINE when we tell him. He had a hard time when he switched to the public schools dealing with the fact that he had to go to 1st grade. Anyway, just had to update here. Wahoo for Gabe!!!! :-)