Mara's school has a thing they call "self managers." These are the kids who show the traits of an exemplary student, and they earn signatures each time they do. When they get one row of signatures for each of the eight traits, they become a blue self manager. If they fill up the entire back of the folder, they are green. Another set of signatures makes them a yellow self manager, and filling up the back of the folder twice makes them a double yellow self manager.
While Mara has had ups and downs this year, she decided in April that she wanted the become a self manager. She worked hard getting her signatures, and she earned her final three today, the last day she could earn signatures and become a self manager in kindergarten. It was fitting that her final signature came from her art teacher, which is her favorite subject at school. She got a Rapunzel/Flynn/Maximus playset as a reward from us for becoming a self manager. Now that she knows what it takes to become a self manager, she's confident she can be at least a green self manager last year, and that means we'll have a bumper sticker to put on the back of the van. :)
