Dallin's Con-grat-u-lations!

Dallin had a blast going to Kyle's end of year swim party.

Mrs. Bright handed out individual, handmade, awards for all of her students (yes, Kyle hit the jackpot to have her as his teacher). She would explain their award then have them come up and give them a big hug. Dallin sat silently with the class. Near the end of the awards he ran up and gave her a big hug. Guess he figured he had waited long enough and it was his turn. Everyone got a good laugh.

Dallin made a good friend (Mrs. Bright's son)

After sitting through Nathan's grad ceremony, and watching award after award handed out, he started to feel left out. He asked me about 20 times, "where's my con-grat-U-lations?" So the next morning we had a little 'congratulations' before Dan and Nonnie went to work. Nonnie provided a goodie bag, and I provided the award. He felt very congradulated!

Kyle says goodbye to first grade

Kyle is officially done with first grade! His SWEET teacher, Mrs. Bright, threw a pool party at her home to wrap up the end of the year. The kids had a BLAST. We are so proud of you Kyle!

Kyle and Mrs. Bright

Kyle got the math award for his grade!! (sorry for the bad pic, had the wrong lens)

All I Really Need to Know...

Nathan is now a Kindergarten Graduate! I threw in this picture because he is so crazy about this bug keychain my mom gave him. It has a real beetle inside. We were at Kyle's end of year swim party and they had been swimming about 30 minutes. And he runs over and shows me that he had stashed the keychain in his trunks, so he could have it with him while he swam. He is very protective of his 'Green Rose Chaffer Beetle!'

A gift for Mrs. Simpson

What a great Kindergarten year!! We are so happy to have a great school for our kids to grow and learn.

I memorized this poem in 6th grade and recited it for Oral Language. It's one of my favorites....

All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

by Robert Fulghum

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I
learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school
mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things
I learned:

Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing
and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and
stick together.

Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The
roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but
we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the
Styrofoam cup--they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you
learned--the biggest word of all--LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love
and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult
terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or
your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world
it would be if we all--the whole world--had cookies and milk about three
o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or
if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where
they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are-- when you go out into the
world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.