Thursday, June 18, 2015

End of the year stuff

The last month of school flew by. There were just so many things going on! Dallin and Brennan were in the Taco Bell track meet. Dallin was on the relay team.

We went to one of these years ago for Spencer and Tyler, and we've tried to avoid them ever since. But Dallin was chosen to be on the team, so we felt obligated. Dave was kayaking with Spencer and Tyler that day, so we didn't have anything else going on.

Since we were there anyway, we signed up Brennan too. He did the long jump and 50 meter. Afterwards we stopped at Taco Bell for our free tacos.

Dallin won the county writing contest! He wrote a persuasive essay about why the turkey should be our national bird. They asked him to read it at the awards ceremony in SLO, and of course he said yes. When we got there, we learned that he was one of only 6 students out of about 150 winners, grades 1-12, on the program to read! He had the whole audience cracking up. Such a proud moment - we stopped for ice cream on the way home.


Then we had open houses. We had kids at 4 different schools this year, so that was busy. They all loved having us visit their classrooms and showing us their work. 

Dallin's teacher, Mrs. Emrich, is retiring after 20 years at Virginia Peterson! She's amazing, and we were so happy Dallin had her before she left. She even drove down to SLO to watch Dallin read his essay! All of our children have had Mrs. Young, and we love her! She was so good for Brennan this year. She was able to help him with his ADD in ways no one has been able to. We are truly grateful.

I love that they always do a big dance performance during open house. First each grade performs, and then they all do their warm-up dance together. It's so fun!


Levi had a great year in transitional kindergarten. He LOVED his teacher, Ms. Starr. She is so sweet and happy, and he always talked about her beautiful smile. He got so excited about his homework. She handed out monthly homework calendars at the beginning of each month, and he usually finished them in 2 days. He has all-day kindergarten next year, and I think this year really prepared him for that. Chloe and I will miss hanging out with him in the afternoon!

The end of the year means lots of projects for the older kids (although we were very grateful the fifth graders didn't have to do an invention this year!). Tyler and his friend Erica made a video about The Outsiders for English. Jacob and Peter were here, and they helped. Brennan made a great Johnny.

Dallin went to the district B.O.B. (Battle of the Books) contest. He read all 30 books on the list this year!


The high school open house was last. Spencer made salsa for the Spanish class salsa competition. It was so good, I couldn't believe he didn't win ;)


Chloe was SO excited about the "brown horsie!" there. We saw it a couple of times.

Next came piano recitals. Spencer was so busy with tennis matches that Dallin started to take over his piano lessons. He loved it, and now they're both taking lessons. 

I've been needing to practice piano for church (I've subbed in primary and relief society recently), so we had a little competition. We all kept tract of our practicing, and the person who practiced the most in 2 weeks got a Toblerone, paid for by the loser. At first it was just me and Spencer, but then Tyler and Dallin joined us. There's been a lot more practicing around here!

About a week before the end of school, I went to see Brennan get a science award. When I got to the school, everyone was gathered around the flag pole, honoring our wonderful secretary, Dawn. She is seriously the BEST school secretary. She is always so happy and NICE! The whole school sang Happy Birthday to her (apparently her b-day is in the summer). Funny story - once Dawn had to call me about one of my kids. Nothing serious, just something about their lunch. She called me 2 minutes later to tell me how wonderful my kids are and that I need to keep them coming. I love her!


Dallin played Benjamin Franklin in his class play.

Levi's class had a little promotion. It was nice and low-key.

Here's the morning class - nice and small! They overlapped with the afternoon class for just 1 hour. He started out the year in the afternoon class, but I switched him because the schedule worked out better for us. I was glad we switched - this is a much calmer group.



I am happy he will be at Brennan's school next year! 

They had a promotion for Dallin's 5th grade class. It was was short and sweet, but then I got the time wrong and showed up 30 minutes late. It's just as well. It was plenty long enough for Levi and Chloe!


 Just 2 graduations this year.  Here's dallin with the principle, Mrs. Rondeau.  

We realized that in 3 years, Chloe will graduate from Kindergarten, Brennan will graduate from elementary school, Dallin will graduate from middle school, and Spencer will graduate from high school. That will be crazy!!!


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