Kindergarten Graduation

Sorry everyone this might be a long one. There were just too many cute pictures and songs. My sweet little Elle graduated from Kindergarten today and is now a first grader:(. I seriously cannot believe how fast this year has gone, I never thought she would be done with kindergarten. She is not a school lover, however, and has been watiing for the day that school would be out for summer. I don't know why, though, because after a couple of days she is bored of being home all the time. End of school for Elle, however, also means end of school for me!! YEAH!! Substituting is a lot more tiring than you would think. Anyway, the kids sang some songs and got little diplomas for graduation and then we took Elle out to lunch and she chose Chili's (her favorite restaurant). So here are some pics and videos of graduation. Elle and two of her best friends, Jacob and Kylie Elle and Mrs. Barnes They got a little bored while everyone else was getting their diplomas Elle and one of her EDK teachers, Ms. Tami Okay, now here is the long part, some videos of the songs they did, but they were all so cute I had to post them.

So I could only get one of the videos to post right now, I will try and do the other ones later when I have more patience:)

End of Daisies

The first year of Daisies is officially over! We did our service project last Saturday and our final meeting on Monday and now have a break until August. It is kind of a relief to not have to worry about going to meetings now, or should I say having the meetings at my house. They got all their cookie patches and rewards and fun patches and everything Monday night. I think Elle literally got about twenty patches. She actually had a lot of fun doing Girl Scouts, and they learn good principles, so I shouldn't complain. I just thought I would post a picture of their final meeting of the school year.

Spring and Change

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I started substitute teaching and have been pretty busy. So, I just have to say first that I love spring! It is one of my favorite times of the year because everything is blooming and smells yummy and looks pretty. It is not hot enough yet to complain about how hot it is:). And butterflies are the best! So it was fitting that Elle's kindergarten class got to buy caterpillars and watch them grow and change into butterflies. Each kid brought in $3 and that bought them their very own caterpillar in a cup. In conjunction with learning about the butterfly life cycle in class, they got to watch their caterpillar grow and change into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly. Elle and Reese LOVED watching this, and I have to say we did too. Each day we would come home and look at what the caterpillar was doing. After the whole class had butterflies, the kids took them to school and released them all together. So here is Elle's finished product (i forgot to take a picture of the caterpillar and the release. DUH, Rachel!!).