School Stuff! - May, 2011

Let's backtrack a bit to May. May always has a lot of school events going on and these are just a few.
Lydia's preschool graduation. There were five kids in our little preschool group this year and the moms would take turns teaching each week. Two of the moms are sisters and they did the graduation for us. The two boys in the picture are cousins. Lydia and the girl next to her are the only one's old enough to move on the kindergarten. We had a very successful year together, but I am so glad it's over too!

 

Joy's awards ceremony. She received an award for 4.0 GPA and and award for her high honors project she did. She was so hoping to get an award for perfect attendance, but only missed one day all year when we had the lice problem, and that was because I made her stay home. She was pretty bummed, so I made her my own certificate and presented it to her the next day. She has the same perfect attendance goal this year too. We'll see! Page was visiting from Texas and was able to come and we loved having her!!

Mary had a dance festival which she was completely embarrassed that I was taping her, but she looked pretty groovy up there.

Mary also had Mini society where all the 5th and 6th graders set up a store and the rest of the school gets play money to spend at their store along with any parents or visitors that stop by. Then, what money they make from their store, their teachers have prizes they can bid on. It's the most anticipated day of the year! Mary had a partner this year and together they made waffles with toppings to choose from, syrup, chocolate syrup, whipped cream, and strawberries. It was a hit, and a mess! Page was also able to come to this with us and Lydia and Hazel had a blast.

Mary used some of her money she'd made to get her hair colored at one of the booths, and here is Lydia getting glitter nails done. She also had her face painted and bought lots of treats.

This one was just too cute to pass up. Hazel had woken up, we put her on the couch, and she flopped around for awhile until she ended up like this on some folded laundry.