Last day of school

We made it!  What a fun, crazy year it has been.  This is the last day of school.

 Glen is finishing his last day as a first grader

Grace is finishing her last day as a third grader

Wow time flies!

June Jam

 June Jam is the fun celebration that is held during the last week of school.  The grade levels each have a dance that they share with the school, and some of the clubs also share a dance too.

Above Grace is in line waiting for the Latin dance club to perform their dance that they had learned that year.

 Here Grace is doing a demonstration with a group she was involved with in the mornings.  I believe that the group was doing yoga in the mornings with the kids.

 Here Glen is doing his grade level dance with his classmates.

 And more of the first grade dance.

 Here Grace is doing her dance with her class.

Usually this event is held outside on the parking lot.  But this year there was rain, so it was held in the gym.

Girl Scouts

Grace has been in Girl Scouts since 1st grade.  She started during the second year of being a Daisy.

Then she was a Brownie for two years (second and third grade).

 This year she has bridged (by actually walking over a bridge at a local park) into juniors.  This girl keeps me busy with all of the activities (girl scouts, boy scouts, piano, violin, just to name a few) but I am glad that she is active, and learning new things and good skills for life.

Here she is being welcomed to juniors with her leader Ms. Angela.  I am so glad that we found the troop that we did.  The girls are great and the leaders are wonderful!

Violin

I feel so blessed that the school system that my children have so many different opportunities to offer the students.  I went to the same school when I was young and I must say the schools look so much different.  Grace and Glen are both in dual immersion classes.  This means that they have classes taught in English for half of the day and classes taught in only Spanish for half of the day.  During the Spanish half of the day they need to read, write, and speak only in Spanish.  They have done this since Kindergarten so at this moment with Grace in third grade, she is getting pretty confident to be able to speak outside of the classroom, with people she may see in the community.

One other opportunity the school system offers is violin classes.  For a low price, the students can stay after school one day a week and take violin lessons.  Grace loves it.  This was her final concert.  She is in the yellow right behind the music stand.

Confidence

At my job, Grace and Glen get to stay with me in the morning (along with four of their friends).  The elementary school and the middle school are connected, so the teachers at the middle school bring their elementary school student children with them to school.  The challenge is that the middle school starts about 40 minutes before the elementary school.  So I take the students into a classroom that is not being used and let the kids play, draw, and color before I walk them over when their school opens.

Here Grace is a bit nervous about taking her first SOLs.  So she made her own inspirational poster for herself.  She did end up passing both of the SOL tests that she took.  I am very proud of her.