Preschool graduation

Rachel had her last day of preschool yesterday. She had a special preschool graduation party that we got to go to. 

Waiting for the preschoolers to come out:

 

 

Grandma Knight was happy to have an excuse to take the 2nd to last day of school off from her crazy kids at her school. And I realized I have more pictures of the kids with their grandparents who live hundreds of miles away than I do of them with the ones that live less than 10 miles away. Maybe I should take pictures of them more often than never.

 

The preschoolers have been learning sign language all year since Mrs. Heather is deaf. She has hearing aids that help, and lip-reading helps, and because of that the kids have actually learned to wait their turn to talk and speak while making eye contact so she can understand them--all good communication skills to have. Anyway, they signed The Bear Necessities from The Jungle Book for their performance.

 

Then the kids were all presented with little packets for their graduation.

 

 

Apparently Rachel needs new shirts that are long enough.

 

We're really proud of Rachel. She's a really good friend and problem solver. Her teacher told me that she is really good at helping other kids work out their problems when they're fighting and is a good peace-maker. She's also a hard worker. She is reading like crazy these days. She reads Junie B. Jones books all the time--whenever we go to the library she gets a few more. One day when Rachel brought one of her Junie B. Jones books to school for show and tell she met me at the door after preschool and said, "That girl can really read! She showed her book for show and tell and I asked her to read it thinking she'd read a few words, or stumble around a bit, but she read the whole page without any problems at all. She is going to do great in school. I have one son that was like her, except he wasn't reading that well until the end of kindergarten. She's going to be taking honors classes and advanced placement courses and do really well in school." Yeah, we've got a smartie pants on our hands. And now we'll just hope for a kindergarten teacher that can handle her. Luckily she's happy to just go with the flow. Hopefully that continues in kindergarten. In the meantime, summer vacation, here we come!