The last day of school…..

It’s the start of summer break around here.  The last day of school was Tuesday, June 8th.  It’s hard to believe that the school year is over with.  Around here, we’re glad to have a break from homework and school projects, but overall it was a good year for both of the kids.

For the fourth-grader, the last day was filled with awards presentations and the principal’s famous year-end slide show.  John happened to be around for the power point presentation and said that it must’ve contained at least a thousand pictures and took about 40 minutes to present.  The entire school was there and enjoyed the whole presentation.  Seems as though the principal really tries to get as  many pictures of as many kids as he can.  The little girl was thrilled to find herself in seven of the pictures.  The very last slide -- “THE END” – was one similar to this one from this past Halloween when Emily decided to dress up like Principal Falkenberg.

She received recognition for artwork that will hang in the school next year (it’s the cupcake picture from the Art Expo), perfect attendance, honor roll, spelling bee participation and for earning her “multi colored belt” in recorder.  She was pretty excited about that one!  -- To explain that a little, the fourth-graders started learning to play the recorder in January.  Over the last few months, they’ve been assigned songs to learn.  As they complete and perform a song, they are given a yarn “belt” to attach to the bottom of their recorder and then they move on to the next level of songs.  The fourth-grader earned every level and even had the teacher pull out more songs so she could learn those as well.  Too bad they don’t have recorder in marching band!

The seventh grader’s last day was a little less exciting, but he did earn an invite to the team’s donut party for his efforts in turning in all of his homework on time this past grading period.  Some food is all this boy needs to make his little day!