Kindergarten completed!

About a week ago Gregory finished his first year of school - Kindergarten.  We were so proud of him and all he did and learned this year.  It was amazing! 

Here are the beginning and the ending photos:

 

Here are some of the highlights of the year:

• Two field trips:  Ropes Course & the Stuttgart Airport (and water play at a park after riding the train and a bus while going to the Airport)
• Having an incubator in his classroom - got to watch eggs hatch and see baby chicks born
• Learning to read and doing so well with it
• Math, Science, Reading, PE, Recess and Lunch were favorites
• He made lots of friends - Austin, Dieter, Levi, Joseph, Gabriel, Gregory Miller, Zachery (notice there are no girls listed!)
• Enjoyed Ms. Beckham for his teacher
• He was in a multi-age class with Kindergarten, 1st Grade and 2nd Grade (He will be in this class the rest of our time here in Stuttgart with the same teacher - as long as she stays here...she's been here over 10 years already)
• Sliding down "the hill" in the winter time
• Had Art, Spanish, Host Nation (German) and Music class as well
• Mrs. Caravona was a great "aide" in the class and always made learning everything fun.  She taught him math mostly (including money)
• Learning about money has been the most difficult for Gregory...you have to think...he's learning about Euros and Dollars
• Gregory got to celebrate his "6th" birthday with his classmates and brought in cupcakes
• His favorite things to do at recess were play foursquare, tag and just play with his friends.
• He learned (and loved) to play baseball and was on the 6 & 7 year old team.
• He had TONS of spelling words and very regularly got 100% on his spelling tests.  We were amazed at the difficulty of words he was given and soon found out that the words he was being given were more advanced as he was learning how to spell very quickly.