Last Day of Kindergarten

Today, Zahra finished kindergarten! (The picture of the commencement ceremony was actually from Monday.) The ceremony was cute, but unfortunately, the pictures from it didn't come out very good. The lighting wasn't great so the pictures are kind of grainy. Zahra's class and the kids from Mrs. Powell's class had their ceremony at the same time. They sang a lot of patriotic songs for us, complete with American sign language. It was pretty cute to watch all of the kids sign as they sang. Perhaps it was because she was tired, but Zahra seemed completely bored by the whole singing thing. When it came time to give out the certificates, she seemed to perk up a little bit. Each child was called up while "Pomp and Circucumstance" played on repeat. It was pretty cute.

After the ceremony, parents and visitors were invited into the classroom to pick up the memory books and look around the room. We got a better picture of Zahra holding her "diploma" with Mrs. Conton. See how proud Zahra looks? We are very proud of our little girl, too. I can't believe a whole school year has gone by already!

We went around and took pictures with some of Zahra's friends. Here she is with Grace. These days, this seems to be her new best friend. I love how happy they look together.

Well, since today was the last day, Zahra's report card for the third trimester came home. She did pretty well. Of course, we'll be working on all those things I mentioned last time, but it was great to see that she's made quite a bit of progress.

After school, Zahra's friend Alysha came home with us. I wanted to surprise the girls, so I decided to take them out to lunch. School let out at 12:20, so we came home for a few minutes. Then Bessie met us and we took all the kids to Chili's. I think it was a fun way to celebrate the end of the school year.

Here comes summer!