4th Six Weeks is Over

The 4th six weeks of school has ended and report cards came out yesterday. Both girls did an excellent job and made straight A's once again! Each six weeks they also always announce the top AR (accelerated reader) point earners for the school. Rachel is 1st in the school with over 500 points and Katelyn is 7th with over 200 points! Way to go girls!

Live Pink, Bleed Orange

I had told Rachel that I would take her to the Lady Vols game on Monday night while Robert & Katelyn went to Katelyn's basketball practice. Mamaw also went with us. I surprised Rachel by inviting one of her friends, Samantha, to go with us. It was "Live Pink, Bleed Orange" night at UT in support of breast cancer awareness. They gave away 12,000 t-shirts at the game! It was an easy win for the Lady Vols and Rachel had lots of fun with her friend!

The Flu!

It looks like the sickness has finally hit our house. The sickness around our schools here has been pretty bad. The entire school system shut down last Friday, and some of the other schools in the system had already been out Wednesday & Thursday for sickness. Katelyn had a cold last week, but that was it. She didn't even come close to having a fever. Everytime I would take her temperature it would be like 97.9 or 98.1. She just had a snotty nose, a little cough, and a sore throat. We treated her symptoms and she was fine by the week-end. However, by Monday evening she was coughing again and complaining of a sore throat. We already had an appointment scheduled with the allergist on Tuesday morning as a follow-up to figure out what's causing all the bumps on her face. So while we were there, they did a strep test. It was negative. Since she wasn't running a fever, they thought maybe she was just starting to develop a secondary infection from her cold the previous week - like maybe a sinus infection or respiratory infection. They gave us a prescription for antibiotics and we were on our way. Katelyn complained about not feeling well, so I did let her stay home from school. Usually when I explain that if you stay home from school you have to stay in bed, can't play, etc. she decides she feels well enough to go. Not this time. She actually got in bed and took a nap. By Wednesday morning, her temp was up to almost 103! I immediately took her to the walk-in clinic because I was thinking she had the flu (it's going around our school and church). Sure enough, she has the flu! She has started on Tamiflu since it seems like we caught it early. I called the girls' allergist when I got home and asked their philosophy on Tamiflu for the rest of the family. They usually put everyone in the house on Tamiflu when one of the family members is diagnosed with the flu, so they called in prescriptions for the rest of us. I was mainly concerned about Rachel, but since they were willing to do it for me & Robert also, we took it. It's expensive, but hopefully it'll be worth it if it keep us from getting sick.

Katelyn will miss the rest of the week of school, so she was only able to go on Monday. She seems to be feeling a little better today, and seems to be a little more "chipper." She has finished all of her school work from Tuesday & Wednesday, and has also been working on Study Island (an online program used by the school for various assignments in math & reading) and her Technology Fair project. She still has a fever, but it wasn't as high this morning.

Pictures from Katelyn's Basketball Game

These are just some pictures from Katelyn's basketball game last Saturday. Most of them didn't turn out too well - guess that's why I'm not a professional photographer!!! She's #11 on the blue team.

4-H County Speech Contest

Rachel participated in the 4-H County Speech Contest a couple of weeks ago. She was eligible to compete because she had previously competed at her school and qualified to advance to the county contest. She did a wonderful job! She didn't place, but she spoke well, made eye contact, had expression, and just did a fantastic job! Some of her friends were there too! It was a good experience for her to stand up in front of a group of people and speak.

Most of the participants in the 4th grade category

Rachel and her friend Emily (from our church)

Rachel and her friend Amy (from swim team)

Rachel speaking

Rachel and her friend Catherine

School Board Meeting

Our school was the featured school at the school board meeting last Thursday night. Rachel & Katelyn were both asked to help with a presentation about technology. All of the kids did a great job!

This is a picture of some of the girls before the meeting got started. (Rachel, Zoya, Catherine, Virginia, and Katelyn)

Click on the link below to watch the video.

http://eatonblog.edublogs.org/2011/02/15/february-school-board-presentation-virtual-field-trip/

Pictures from Snow White Play

Rachel was a fox in the performance of "Snow White". In the pictures she is always the fox in the middle.