Graduation from a Preschool to a Pre-K

 These are pictures from the end of school last year.  There was a graduation celebration to say goodbye to all of our friends who were moving on to Kindergarten.  Holly has one more year of pre-school to go, but that now makes her a pre-K and as such she is in a new class.  It is full inclusion, meaning its a regular class with a regular teacher.  There are now 24 other kids instead of only 16, so there is less individualized attention and one on one.  She is required to be a little more responsible for herself and for her participation.  The class content is also a little more academic.  Though still play based they do a lot more pre-writing and writing, table top activities and pre-reading work.  It is exciting.  But back to this post, the graduation was fun.  They had a rehearsal and practiced what the kids would do.  Each class walked in one by one and the kids entered individually and in pairs and then found there group seats.  the principle spoke awards were giving and each class did a performance.  It was so adorable seeing all the prepared dances and songs from the different class.  It was a fun afternoon.

So here are the Video Clips:

Class Song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57AXltpT6HU

Welcome Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XUjyCdp5IY

Block Party

Here we are over at Aiden and AlleyRose's house.  They were having a block party, which is actually only 3 blocks from our house so we headed over to play.  Met a lot of neighbors and had a fun time jumping and playing.  Samantha came too as she lives only 2 blocks away and is in our neighborhood too. It was a nice afternoon.  We walked over had some snacks, played, even had some dress-up.  it is always a fun time with Aiden and AlleyRose.

Backyard Swimming

On a hot summer day we had a wonderful time swimming with Theo and Throy in the backyard.  We came over for a play date, Holly was excited to play on the drums but it was so so hot the kids begged to play in the water.  It was the one time I didn't have a spare bathing suit in the car so we ended up borrowing one of Theo's old suits.  That of course meant that Holly didn't have a top.  There pool had a cool slide but Throy and Holly were a little too small to go down it without slipping.  Then the kids played fishing.  They were so cute when they got out of the water and wore there robes to dry off and relax.

After we had some lunch and then the kids decided to dress up in costumes.  Adorable.  We had two little Spidermans.  After playing for a bit everyone decided to play restaurant.  Holly and Throy were the customers and Theo took there orders.  It was so cute.  Holly wanted her own notepad to write orders in also.  Later it was Holly's turn to be the waitress.  Then it was superhero's in capes and then jumping Spidermans.  It was a fun fun day.