smarty pants

Today McKenzie was honored at her school for her excellent achievement in math. No surprise there. She is always at the top of her grade for everything. She was just nominated by her teacher to join the GATE (gifted and talented education) program. She scored in the 99% nationally in the standardized testing. She is so funny. We got her report card today and we were going over all her scores in each subject and we got to P.E. and she says

"Oh PE...that is my WORST subject."

It's so opposite of me in school. I always excelled at anything athletic and sucked in everything academic. Richard excelled in both (brat!) However McKenzie still got the highest score in PE since according to her "I still have to do good."

Halie's teacher chose to honor the kids who were at the bottom of the class and pulled themselves up higher. This is a good chance for those kids that are trying really hard, but sucky for Halie since she is always at the top of the class for every subject. Funny thing about Halie is that she got all 'O's for outstanding except in PE. She got an S for satisfactory. What is up with that? She is so athletic and always has been.

All in all they got amazing grades and are both having to get extra work all the time. I am so thankful that they excel in academics.