The last month of school was filled with lots of activities - carnival, open house, teacher appreciation and end of year gifts, fun days, and Kindergarten ceremony. I don't have many pictures from the fun days. Weston got to tour a restaurant and eat hamburgers, Owen got to bike to the beach, and Savannah got to do outdoor fun and snacks.
Savannah's fun day
Weston's class does a market for open house, where they pick a business and then have people participate. Weston and his friend did a pizza place, with menus and felt pizzas.
Savannah was excited to have her face painted by one of the 2nd graders for their marketplace business. She was eager to show us her work and the butterflies in her classroom.
They had artwork displayed - Owen's artwork is the corn, Weston did the bear, and Savannah did the boats.
I did simple appreciation gifts for their teachers in May - the Burt's Bees lip balm. For the end of the year gifts, Owen's teachers got these cute bins with chocolate. Weston's teacher got a Nalgene bottle with an REI gift card (she couldn't have the chocolate...). I made the paper flowers, which I ended up making several, since they were part of the gift for Savannah's teacher as well.
Since I was a co-room mom for Savannah's class, another mom and I organized a class group gift. Her teacher also has a summer birthday, so we collected money for a birthday gift card as well. Everything turned out cute. I made the fish birthday card to go with a gift card for a seafood restaurant. We put together a flower pot with the kids fingerprints. Each of the paper flowers had the kids faces in the center. We rounded out the basket with a garden center gift card, garden accessories, and a book called "Mrs. Spitzer's Garden." Turned out well for Savannah's garden-loving teacher!
Savannah's Kindergarten ceremony was cute - I always find these "graduations" a bit silly, but at least they don't wear cap and gowns here. They sang several songs and each got to talk into the microphone to share they favorite kindergarten memory. Savannah's favorite memory was being superstar for a week.
This was an appropriate award for Savannah, since she is always drawing and creating artwork.
Weston had a good year. He shares some of his favorites below. He got an award for perfect attendance!
Weston had quite a few friends too - he called them his "gang". He did have a little bit of trouble navigating the social challenges this year though. He came home one day really sad. As we talked to him, we discovered it was because his "gang" had decided to exclude one of the boys from their group (apparently for being mean). They wouldn't play with him or sit with him at lunch. However, Weston still wanted to play with this friend and didn't know what to do. We talked with him about making his own choices and that he could still be friends with the excluded friend, as well as with his other friends. The next day when the group still wouldn't sit with the one friend, Weston chose to sit with him at lunch. He also tried to play with him and with his other buddies. We were proud of him for those choices and for being a good friend.
Owen had a great year, and he was known as the calculator since he is so good at math. Everyone loves Owen - he's a great friend, a funny and charming guy.
Owen, Weston, and Jared have been doing a lot of drawing as well. They're particularly interested in drawing clone troopers. They have a notebook full of different clone troopers. Jared drew the first one below, and Owen drew the other two. They all have taken an interest in drawing these and have quite a clone art collection.
These are the first drawings they did:
Weston
Jared
Owen
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