Monday, June 11, 2012

wrapping up the school year

They've been out for a few weeks now.
The last few days and weeks were fun, but I'm so
glad we're on summer flex time now!


Elliott and some of his friends at the Zoo during their field trip.

Meet Aluminum Guy
One last project for the year.
He had to use at least 8 (I think) different shapes
to construct a creature.
I thought he was pretty cool!


The supplies began returning home.
I always put what we need in the homework cabinet,
and then the rest get put away for next year.


My absolute favorite part of the end of the year!
JOURNALS.
Each year I have been given this gift of a 
window into what is important to them in the form
of a written journal from September until May.
I LOVE what I find in there.

FIELD DAY
It was wacky olympics themed.
This was my station.
Japan's Chopstick Chicken Relay Race.
The kids had to pick up this rubber chicken
with chopsticks only.
Run with it to the frying pan.
Drop it in.
And the next person would go and get it.
Fun times, I tell you!

Autograph Party
Our PTO hosts an autograph party every year where the kids can get together with
other classes in their grade level and sign yearbooks or autograph papers.
I remember doing this in middle and high school, but not elementary school.
Good thing since I was always frantic about saying just the right thing in each person's book.
Didn't want to say the same thing as everyone else, wanted it to be fun or nice, and didn't want to say the same thing in each book.  
Whew!  Lots of pressure.
I will say that I have some very long paragraphs in my yearbooks, and I bet my classmates do too :)
The boys......pretty much just sign their name and they are done.  Hmmmm.

1 comment:

Ny said...

Grace's class did the same with autographing their yearbooks, they brought two grades together and let them have at it. It was interesting, most just wrote their name but some wrote a message. I was all about the messages growing up too. The closest friends got the LONG versions :).