Austin gets another award...

Austin is always getting awards in Reading, this time he got an award that he has never received before, the Author Award.  At the end of each quarter there is an awards assembly and several awards are handed out to students for many different things.  There are three 5th grade classes in his school.  Eash teacher chooses a couple of students from their classes for the various awards.  Austin was really surprised when his teacher called his name for this award.  He wrote a short story on our cat, Sammy.

Austin is pretty shy and is easily embarrassed, his cheeks look a bit flushed.

Award Winner!!!

Austin received 2 awards at school.  His first one was for Social Studies, this is his favorite subject.  He is always wanting to learn more and more.  He also seems to retain everything he learns in this subject.  He is always teaching me stuff that I never knew.  He really enjoyed learning about the Revolutionary War and that was one of the reasons that he was chosen for this award.  His teacher said that he showed more interest than anybody else in the class and his Revolutionary War project was the best in the class.  His second award was for reading.  Austin loves to read!  He is the top reader in the 5th grade and one of the top readers of the entire school.  The students are given awards for each level of reading that they do.    He is a Classic III level, he needs to do a few more levels in classic and then he will be in Honors.

The levels are:
Independent Reader
Super Reader I, II, & III
Advanced Reader I, II, & III
Star Reader I, II, & III
Classic Reader I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII
Honors
To achieve these levels you have to read a certain # of books at different levels of difficulty.  He is reading 7th and 8th grade level books.  I am so proud of him with his reading.  It amazes me because when he was in the 1st grade he really struggled with reading.  In fact, he was pulled from his regular class everyday to attend a reading class to help him.  Well I must say it REALLY helped him.  He gets caught up in reading so much that there are times when we find him up super late in his room reading with a flashlight after his bedtime.  Sure makes it hard to get mad at him for being up passed his bedtime.