TBT - End of the School Year

NOTE: I find it ironic that I'm writing this on the day my kids met their new teachers for the upcoming school year.

Here are a few highlights from the end of the school year for Cat and Jack:

Cat's School Birthday

Since Cat has a summer birthday, her teacher invited her to

celebrate on an alternate school day so that she could have her

turn to bring in treats (doughnuts), choose a YouTube video

to show the class (NFL Bad Lip-Reading), and receive special notes

from all of her classmates.  Ben took Jack and Eliza with him

for the celebration and a good time was had by all.

Jack's Kindergarten Graduation

Jack's class had a graduation event on their next-to-last day of school.

We loved watching them sing the songs they practiced,

then they went out into the hall and came back into the classroom as

they were called, one by one, wearing mortar boards, to receive their certificates.

When they were all assembled, they threw their caps into the air and it

was so cute!  We enjoyed treats and took pictures and shook our

heads at the fact that Jack had finished kindergarten.  And it won't

be long before Eliza is doing the same thing.

"Who's graduating from kindergarten today?"

We watched a slideshow and I love this picture of Jack doing an impromptu
reading of Green Eggs and Ham for his class, because the mom reading the
book noticed that Jack was reading along.

Jack's Last Day of School

For Jack's very last day of school, all of the kindergarteners

practiced what they'll do as 1st Graders, things like checking

out books in the library, buying lunch in the cafeteria, etc.

He was excited to be moving up to all of that big kid stuff.

(Jack got out of school a week or so before Cat because his teachers started

testing incoming kindergarteners for placement for the following school year.)

Morning drop-off.  Looks like Cat was helping Jack carry his teacher gifts.

Offical 1st Grader!

Cat's Last Day of School

Cat's last day of school was a free dress-down day, which means the

kids didn't need to wear uniforms, and they didn't have to pay for the

privilege of dressing down, as they do on the fundraiser dress-down days.

(If you ask me, they shouldn't have to pay to dress down ever.  An

occasional dress-down day is just a fun thing the kids should look forward

to once in a while.  But what older kid would be okay with wearing a uniform

to school on a day when all of her friends will be wearing regular clothes?

Not my older kid.  And what parent would want to pay for her kid to wear her

own clothes to school?  Not me.  So when Cat wanted to dress down on the

fundraiser days, she paid for the privilege.  Which, I believe, was every single time.)

Cat wanted to "walk home" on the last day of school,

so I dropped her and Eliza off at the front of our neighborhood

and they walked to the house together.

 

Let the summer begin!