Friday, May 21, 2010

awards & pre-school graduate :-)

Joel, Makenzie, and Luke finished their school year on Wednesday. The day started with an awards ceremony. Joel received one of the 5th-grade library awards for reading so many books. Makenzie got the awards for having the highest grade point averages in Bible, English, and History in her class. Luke didn't get any awards, but he got really good grades this year.

This silly little boy . . .


. . . graduated from pre-school yesterday :-)


Even though Seth had only gone for two or three weeks, he got to participate in the graduation celebration. He was feeling a little sick, though, so he didn't do much celebrating. It was all as cute as could be! The kids wore graduation hats with a 2010 tassle and Hawaiin skirts and leis. They sang a few of their favorite songs and shouted out what they wanted to be when they grew up. Since Seth wasn't feeling well, he just sat in his chair instead of singing or doing the motions to the songs. I'm not sure he would've joined in even if he'd been feeling healthy, though. There were quite a lot of people in that little classroom, so I'm sure he was feeling quite overwhelmed.

Seth enjoyed his time in pre-school, but he likes being with his mom even more. He wasn't too heart-broken to walk away from the school for this last time.


His teachers were SO patient and encouraging to Seth. His main teacher tried pretty hard to get a special allowance for Seth to have one more year of pre-school, but no child can go to public pre-school if he turns five before September 1. That's a pretty stupid rule in my opinion, but no one asked my opinion. So Seth is starting kindergarten in the fall. He won't have the average kindergarten experience like Joel, Makenzie, and Luke had. He'll be in the regular class for only a short amount of time probably and then be in special classes and therapies for a lot of his time there. He'll probably also only go half days and not at all on Wednesdays since he sees his private therapists on Wednesdays. Life is just a continuing adventure with my sweet Seth.

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