Friday, July 16, 2010

Our Last few Days with the Students

Oldest Class: Middle School 3rd Graders (Steve, Sandra, Jenny, Kristy, Jenny, Heather, Liji, Veronica, June)
Middle School 2nd Graders (Leah, Monica, Emily, Christina, Lisa, Janet)
Top to bottom (Chase, Harry, Howard, Steve, Blake, Lucas, Leah, Monica, Lisa, Emily, Janet)
Middle School 1st Graders (Brad, Jim, Jeff, Julian, Vin, Den, Luke, Tony, Kaleb)


6th Graders (Stella, Vanessa, Anne, Peter, Andy, Chris, Jay, Kurt, Tyler, Rob)


3-5th Graders (Sam, Michael, Tom, Ian, Adam, Katy, Alana, Tina, Emma, Vicky, Emily, Ella)

Mrs. Young and Jack
Our Youngest and Sweetest student (Nina)
We said our goodbyes to her in the afternoon but then that night as we were in with the oldest class there was a little knock on our door and there was Nina. Tears came to my eyes just seeing her there and I was so touched she came back. She had made us some little crafts and came to have another goodbye. She is one we will never forget. That morning she was the first one to the Academy and when she came into our office she came over to me, hugged my arm and whispered to me, "Mr. Waite and Mrs. Waite go uhm."(motioning her hands away) I nodded my head sadly and said, "Yea." Then she just squeezed my arm so tight and started moaning and saying, "nooooo." It was like the sweetest thing ever.
Jenny, Veronica, and Grace some of our favorites.


Leah was super shy when she came to the Academy and stayed that way for quite awhile; but we finally got her to open up a bit and ended up being one you could really see progress.
My most favorite:) boys class.

Vin was probably our best conversationalist in the whole school and he is Nina's older brother.
Jeff got me some chocolate!
The students brought tons of chips to share. They wanted a party.
Howard tried the hardest.


We got to spend of lot of fun tutoring hours with Vicky.

Vicky, Jess, and Sam
Brady
David
Michael trying to look like Mr. Waite

Emily and Ella

2 of our funnest students and they happened to be brothers. (Julian and Ian)
Doing a dance for the camera.
Ella and Michael
Beautiful Emily







Lucas, Blake, and Chase
Jenny and Grace

We each tutored Kim once a week.
Sylvia was our only High School student that we tutored each week.

1 comment:

Mandy said...

So sweet about Nina. It made me cry. I also love how the boy put chalk on his face to look like Liji. So funny!