Number badges and Book Club

In senior kindergarten at Harding, the students earn number badges by writing the numbers leading up to that number. For example, writing from 1 to 100 earns the student the 100 number badge. Anna's teacher helped the students earn 100-500 together as a class. Then, the students were on their own to earn up to 3,500. At first, it was an all out competition for Anna. She would wear home two or three badges a day and it was fun for her. Well, then a classmate surpassed her and she lost some of the fever!! She slowed a bit but was very driven to finish and earn all the badges up to 3,500. She did complete her goal and we were super proud. This week the kindergarten students got to wear ALL of their badges to school. I pinned all 35 badges on a t-shirt and it was so cute. Below are front and back views of her badges.

Also, to prepare the students for their kindergarten readiness tests, the students were challenged to read 100 books. They earned "gumballs" to fill their gumball machines on the bulletin boards. Anna was super excited about this challenge because she LOVES to read. Each book read by the students was recorded on a log. A book with over 20 pages counted twice. Of course she was always picking 80 page Dr. Seuss books, but we were so super proud. She was the second student in her class to reach the 100 book milestone. She earned a medal for reaching her goal which she got to wear home from school.

Anna is almost finished with senior kindergarten and we could not be more proud of her success and all that she has learned. We can't believe in a few short months she will be starting first grade!!! She is a smart girl and know that she will end up being something special when she "grows up"!