The last couple weeks of school are a flurry of awards and promotions. Dallin won first place in the 6th grade writing contest. He wrote a 1st person narrative about our trip to West Virginia. He was one of only two 6th graders asked to read his entry aloud at the 6-12th grade writing contest awards night. He did an excellent job, and everyone laughed at all the right places.The person in charge of the event was also in charge of the elementary school Almond Blossom Festival, and she asked Brennan to be the "special guest speaker" at the end and do his speech about allowing all grades to ride their bikes to school. He stole the show!
Mr. Arnett (Spencer's English teacher) was blown away by his performance. What a huge compliment! Spencer said that all his friends who were there told him the next day how impressed they were with his little bros!
Chloe's preschool had a little graduation which was not so little. We've been to quite a few of these, and they seem to get longer and longer each year!! But there were delicious cookies at the end, and that made it all worth it. Here is Chloe with her favorite teacher, teacher Danae.
Tyler graduated from middle school and got something called a pillar award. It was given to about 20 8th graders who demonstrated the 3 "R" values of their school, Respect, Responsibility and Reliability. I liked how the awards night was separate from the big graduation. That way only the people getting awards were invited, and the graduation was kept nice and short.
On the second to last day of school, all the 8th graders got to go to the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz. He loved it!! Dallin also received a pillar award, along with two department awards: science and history. He was feeling pretty sick that day, but he didn't want to miss the awards ceremony. He got all A's his first year in middle school!
Like I said, Tyler's 8th grade graduation was kept really short. I think it was only about 35 minutes long. The weather was perfect! Nice and cool.
Isn't he cute?! Goodbye middle school, on to high school!
One of his good friends, Joseph.
He never had Mr. Grace as a teacher, but he was a great cross country/track coach.
We had plenty of time to make it over to Levi's kindergarten graduation. I was worried about that!
It was funny to go from 8th grade to kindergarten. What a contrast! This one had lots of music, singing and dancing.
There's Levi in the green shirt, being pretty silly! He reminded me of Dallin at this age.
We love his teacher, Mrs. Berry! She's taught 4 of our 5 boys.
Chloe did awesome sitting through both ceremonies. More cookies!
Brennan had been sick earlier in the week and missed a couple days of school. He even had to miss a field trip to the park and a field day! We were glad he was feeling well enough to go the last day.
We love his teacher too! We really lucked out with elementary school teachers this year. All done with school blogs! Time for fun summer blogs!
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