kindergarten graduate

Wow, our little boy has has graduated kindergarten.  Look at how grown up he is in this picture. Ethan, we love you and are so very proud of the creative, emotional and social learning you have done this year! Here are some snips from the "story book" he made in school. It was very cool that they stamped the date in the right corner of each one.

 My Story Book by Ethan

 This is a sunny day.  There is no school today! Ethan jumped off the treehouse onto the trampoline.

My Christmas break. Game time with my Dad.

It's Mother's Day.  I give a card to my Mom.

It is true what they say - it's definitely not the kindergarten of 25 years ago when I was in school.  All I remember doing is learning the alphabet and playing dress up (the enchanting chest of old clothes is one of the few memories I have from then). My son entered into kindergarten knowing his alphabet, colors, numbers up to 100 and finished having learned to write,  simple math skills and can read!  I couldn't believe it when they started as soon as half way into the school year reading.   There have been so many things to be excited, proud, teary over and of course we had our share of challenges.  We are all looking forward to a nice summer break and a bit more of a carefree existence. We plan on celebrating a job well done this weekend. Not sure how and in what way yet but, whatever we do, it'll be great to show him how proud we are.