Graduation: Take 2

School is over...yay...and not so much yay....I'm glad of the end to schedule and running around with a million things to do and not so glad about keeping four kids entertained and oh yeah the running around with a million things to do....
But...a few more highlights of last days at school and awards and stuff...

oh the infamous "at-too-dee-ta" from Amelia's preschool.....the kids loved that crazy song!

and her lovely preschool teacher Mrs Jaci Gloss....she gave them all little monkeys as a gift (they were the Marvelous Monkey's class...

Daniel also got his Golden Scholar award for maintaining a 3.8 GPA or above for the school year....

...along with some of his friends (he'll also be spending a week at EFY with these guys!)

I did think it was kinda lame that the 8th grade didn't get an actual graduation celebration.....but he got a certificate that obviously had a lot of meaning to him as it spent the day folded up in his pocket:)

The 6th graders also didn't get any kind of graduation.....(i asked around....apparently someone stopped them a couple of years ago???) but their fun Principal made the day pretty cool and exciting for those 6th graders today...they had an assembly where they "graduated" out of their regular spot in the bleachers...all the little kids were so excited for them:)

and then each grade level got to graduate up to the new and somehow way cooler spot in the gym.....Abbie has made it off the floor and into the bleachers.....!

it would be kind of an under-exageration to say that the kids were only mildly excited...I'd probably go with saying that pandemonium reigned and there were a few moments where I was afraid some Kindergartner might get crushed on the floor in the mad rush:))
Oh yeah and they have this Gator shout thing....that is just deafening.....

And then the younger kids all dismissed while the Principal imparted some final words of wisdom and then the 6th graders got to "parade" the hallways to cheers and high fives from all the other students....it was a pretty cool final day at Elementary School!!