Like other holidays, turns out I blogged about Valentine's Day over on my other blog, if you're interested in the valentines we made for school buddies this past year. Good way to use up old, broken crayons!
The kids celebrated other holidays with more craft projects, like hats and beards for St. Patrick's Day.
And there were a few more field trips.
He's posing here with one of his best buddies, Finn (who also happens to be in his class this year).
Daphne tagged along on this one to Fairyland.
Easter was celebrated with an egg hunt in the school's garden and a party back in the classroom.
Toward the end of the school year, with Daphne in part-time daycare, I was able to finally volunteer at school, some weeks with the Kindergarten-only motor skills class. A very blurry Elias is on the red ball on the right. I'm kind of bummed this is only during Kindergarten - it was a bit old-school but at least it got the kids moving every week (unlike PE, which they only had once a week, every other week!).
That's the cruel irony (or is it a paradox? I don't know...) of being an essentially stay-at-home parent. Unless all your kids are in school (in which case, score!), it's tough to take advantage of all that time you have on your hands with an infant or toddler in tow. So I tried to volunteer once a week once Daphne was in part-time daycare. Of course, now that she's no longer in daycare (more about that in a bit), I'm trying to volunteer once a week with her tagging along. We'll see how it goes...
Classroom science project. I really appreciated that the lower grades did classroom projects since we didn't get too far on the one we started at home. I kept the project-in-progress, though, so maybe this year?
Sitting next to his buddy Kingston at the Dads' Club sponsored annual pancake breakfast, showing off the latest gap in his smile. He's lost 6 teeth so far, the latest one just this week!
A field trip to the Chabot Space & Science Center while Daphne was at daycare. Even so, I was still exhausted by the end of this one!
This was also the location of our first field trip this school year and Elias seems pretty into space these days. In fact, just a day or two ago he told me he wants to be an astronaut when he grows up, but "the kind that studies space from Earth."
Okay, I know this is getting really long and rambling, but ... chicks! There were chicks!
So cute! I think this is another thing only Kindergarteners get to enjoy - learning about the incubation process and life cycle of the chicken and all that - but we'll see this spring if there are chicks to be had in the first grade classroom. I'm guessing, however, that this is one of the many ways 1st grade is different than Kindergarten.
Comparing water bottles before the school's walk-a-thon, one of many fundraisers.
We celebrated summer birthdays (including Elias') during the second to last week of school. Journie, the gal sitting next to Elias, is also a summer birthday and is in his class again this year.
The class performed a short play with their 3rd grade "buddies." Elias' part was King Lion.
Elias is in the center of this picture, waiting for the play to begin. I believe his first grade buddy, Nick, is standing to the left of him (his right). 3rd graders are so much bigger than Kindergarteners!
And finally, graduation!
We got to take home some projects the kids had worked on all year.
All the students received a certificate and I was sort of shocked to learn, given the number of stomach bugs Elias had last winter, that he had perfect attendance, earning him a second certificate!
There were cupcakes, of course.
Seems like just yesterday ... I'm going to get started on my first 1st grade post right away!
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