Highlands Hooray award

Yesterday Addie brought home a paper saying that she was a winner of one of the Highlands Hooray Awards, to be given out this afternoon (talk about nice warning for parents, right?!)

All she knew was that they give one award per class based on the four values of Highlands (courteous, cooperative, responsible, respectful) and then one ultimate winner of the Wildcat award, who demonstrates all of the characteristics.

This little boy in front of her cracked me up.

The assembly was for the kindergarten, first and second grades at the same time.

The awards were given out for Responsible, Courteous and Cooperative, so I knew that Addie was either up for Respectful or the Wild Cat. I knew it was between Addie and her best friend Reagan.

They started announcing the Respectful winner and... Addie was called.

Perhaps the LEAST flattering picture of her standing when she was announced humanly possible!

The smile didn't leave her face. Tonight at the PTA meeting her teacher even came up to us to say that her smile was so incredible while she was being acknowledged.

She was so proud of herself. And we were too.

Look at that face of pure delight.

Then it turns out that they give Perfect Attendance awards for each marking period too and Addie hadn't missed a day! So she got to go up again and get another certificate.

Overall, very proud of her and am glad to have a child who is respectful.