Monday, April 20, 2009

STAR STUDENT

Lat week Jaron got to be the STAR student in his kindergarten class. He has been looking forward to this all year. When you are star student you get to help out in class like passing out papers, being line leader, taking the lunches to the lunch room and the class gets to learn all about you. The Friday before the week started when he got the blue paper explaining that he was going to be the star student next week, he came up to after school like he had just won the lottery and was so excited about it.
On Monday: he brought in 8 pictures of himself and I was supposed to write a story about Jaron (I have included that below-I had a hard time making sound interesting) those things get to hang on the STAR student board for the week. Tuesday: he brought in a guessing jar- we filled a glass jam jar with candies, then the kids get to guess how many items are in the jar. Wednesday: he drew his name and colored it and then it hung in the class. Thursday: he was able to bring in his favorite story book which was "Don't Eat the Babysitter". Friday: he got to bring his favorite snack, we were going to send in Nutty Bars but then we decided not to because it had peanut butter in it his favorite food. He ended up taking Better Cheddars.
Jaron has had a hard time in school this year, learning how to sit still and stay focus and on task, he is in all day Kindergarten. And so he gets in trouble when he can't be good. One day during his STAR student week, I guess he wasn't his best and his teacher took away his star student privileges for the rest of the day. I thought that was sad because he looked so forward to that, you could tell that he was sad about that too.
Below is the pictures I sent to school with him and the story I tried to write about him.

Six and half years ago a little boy was born, to a family that was so excited to have him join the family. The family already had a daughter name Kallie, and she was so excited to have a little brother. The family named this little boy Jaron. From the time that Jaron came home to his family he always had smile for anybody and everybody. And his smile would bring a smile to anybody, his smile would light up his whole face and he had such kissable cheeks that his mom loved to kiss them all the time. Jaron also has the biggest heart ever, he always thinks of the other person and their feelings, many times he will be very sad when someone else gets hurts and feels for them. His mom loves him so much for his tender heart. When Jaron was six months old his sister Kallie had to have hip surgery and she had to be in a huge cast. Jaron was always right there giving her loves and snuggling up to her. You could tell that he really cared for her wanted her to be well and to be able to play with her.
When Jaron was about 18 months his mom was going to have another baby and she got really sick. So his Aunt Alycia came to help his mom out. During this time Alycia and Jaron became the best of friends. She almost kind of came like a second mom to Jaron. And still today they are great friends. Last summer he got to spend two weeks with just Alycia and they had a blast together. They are two peas in a pod.
One time when he was two, his mom was trying to get a video out of the VCR to find that there was a spatula stuck in there, the one that Jaron was playing with a few minutes earlier. Jaron also had his first trip to the ER that year. He was running and hit his head into a chalkboard tray at church, ended up getting two stitches. You can still see the scar on his head. When the doctors were trying to do the stitches the only thing that would get Jaron to stop crying was to talk to him about rocks. He loved rocks and had to always stop and look at every rock he saw.
Jaron has two more sisters in his family, they are younger than him. Kelsie who is three and Karlee who is almost one. He is a great big brother to them he likes to look after them and care for them. You can tell that he really loves them. And he seems not to mind being the only boy among all these girls.
When Jaron was in preschool he loved to paint pictures on the easel at school. He would come home always wanting to paint more. He got an easel for at home and he still loves to paint and draw pictures. His mom loves all the pictures that he draws and is sad that she does not have enough room on her fridge for all of his pictures and wishes that she could make wallpaper out of all them and have them all over the walls.
Jaron loves to make things when he was in preschool he came home with a “masterpiece”. To his mom it just looked like two piles of clay with pasta and beads pushed into it. But to him it was an American forest that his sisters and him were hiking through (marked by the beads- each one of them had a color) and then they had to cross a river, which was made out of pasta. His eyes lit up as he told all about it. When his mom asked his teacher if that is what they were talking about in class and she was like no, he came up with it all on his own. He is so creative.
Jaron loves trains. He loves to watch them go and build big set up of tracks for them. When he moved to Klamath Falls, he moved far away from his grandparents but one time he got to go see them, and was able to ride the train. He was so excited he could barely sleep. When it was time to actually ride on the train up to Portland, he was in heaven being up so close and in a train.
Jaron loves vacuums he got his vacuum for his second birthday and he has not looked back since. Every Christmas he asks for a new vacuum with a new feature on it. This past Christmas when Jaron saw Santa he asked for a new vacuum but he wanted something that he hadn’t ever had on one of them before. He wanted one that really worked. Santa brought him one and his mom loves it because Jaron will vacuum up the house for her. He is such a big helper.
This boy Jaron is such a blessing to his family and they love him very much and would not trade him for anything. Enjoy being the star student this week Jaron you have been looking forward to this all year. :0) WE LOVE YOU!!

3 comments:

Jodi said...

Thanks so much for adding Dan's blog to your list! We really appreciate it!!!!

Campbell said...

That is so cute I'm so proud of you Him! I'm sad that his teacher took it away for a day I can just see him being sad about it! I love you guys and cant wait to see you in a few days! Im counting down the days!

Grandma's Cookie Jar said...

Great story! Consequences are hard to learn from. Sorry he had his star day taken away. He does have a big heart. I hope his teacher understands that. He just has a lot of energy and he's doing so well learning how to channel it. You're a great mom and he's a wonderful little boy! :o)