Blake's last month of Kindergarten was a very fun and busy month!! He had an in school field trip (The Number Farm), a field trip to Genesis Early Learning Centre, an ice cream sundae party, a water fun day, a classroom pot luck and a school-wide Games Day! I volunteered for Games Day and was lucky (ahem) enough to be stationed at the face painting table ;) It was a great day, I enjoyed myself and I think the children were okay with my limited face-painting skills!!! Next year I will suggest I am stationed elsewhere!! Blake's school doesn't do kindergarten graduation pictures or a ceremony although his teacher did put together a nice binder of all his work, a DVD of pictures from through out the year and gave him a kindergarten graduation certificate ;)
Both Blake and I were a little bit sad on his last day of Kindergarten :( Blake kept asking, "Will I see Mme. Emilie again? Will I see Max again? Can I still play with Gavin?" etc, etc, etc. It was hard for him to grasp that 2 months of summer vacation flies by and before he knows it, he will be seeing all of his friends again, but this time all day, 5 days a week!! The day after his last day of school, he said to me, "Mom, can I go to school today?" I giggled a little and told him he was on summer vacation. He said, "I know, I just thought maybe." So cute and nice to hear that he enjoys school that much!! He will enjoy Grade 1, I am sure. I'm hoping their enrollment numbers don't change too much because as it stands right now there are two grade one FI classes, one with fourteen students and one with fifteen students. I like those numbers! I knew Mme. Emilie was moving to another school next year but didn't tell Blake, in hopes that she would pass on the news and she did do that on the last day of school. Blake came home and said, "Mme. Emilie is going to another school to teach Grade 1. But she said we could come visit her! Can we go visit?" I said, "Of course we can!!" Although I'm not sure when, as her school calendar will be the exact same as ours! I'm glad he had a great year and will miss his teacher!
The year flew by so fast and it makes me sad because my baby is growing up. I think I will be an absolute mess when Reese's kindergarten year comes to an end :s I am also sad because he will now be in school 5 days a week, all day :( I will miss him!! But it is great to see him grow and learn and take on new challenges. I am excited for him to start reading in French and in a few short years, he'll be bilingual, reading, writing and speaking both French and English! I'm finding that it is a bit difficult for some people grasp that he is not reading yet when other children who are in English kindergarten have begun reading but it is nice that quite a few of our friends and some of my closest friends, also have children in FI and so we can chat and discuss the program and what not! And hopefully this will benefit all our kids in the long run. For quite some time now we have noticed that Blake has a love for numbers and 'figuring things out' but he is now really in to long addition, subtraction and even some simple multiplication! Last week he said to me, "Mom, is eight plus eight, sixteen?" I said, "Yes it is!" Then he said, "Oh, so four times four is sixteen!" I was pretty proud!
I saw this post on Pinterest and decided to do this for all my kids but instead of using the Dr. Seuss book (because I have a feeling a lot of kids are going to be getting that book when they graduate Grade 12!), I chose to find a different book. I bought the Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein for Blake and will buy a different book for each of the girls when they start kindergarten. I absolutely loved this idea and hope that this is a gift they will treasure forever. I got teary-eyed when I read Mme. Emilie's note, as I'm sure will happen every year when I read their teacher's messages :)
So as we say goodbye to a great Kindergarten year, we have a tear in our eye, but we also look forward to all the amazing things that Grade 1 will have to offer!
Blake, we are so proud of you and what you have learned during Kindergarten. We are proud of how friendly and helpful you were in your classroom and proud of how hard you have worked to learn new concepts, ideas and tools. We can't wait to see you flourish in Grade 1!
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| First day of Kindergarten - September 4, 2012 |
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| Last day of Kindergarten - June 27, 2013 |
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