Year End Kindergarten Celebration

Armin recently celebrated the end of Kindergarten!  I am not calling it his graduation because he will be doing another year of Kindergarten starting in September!  We struggled with the decision of what to do, let him go to Grade One still quite young or hold him back for another year of Kindergarten where hopefully he will be a leader in the class instead of a follower?  After seeing how well his speech improved over the year it was a no brainer to hold him back so he could continue to get more one on one time.  Grade One is great but there is not a lot of funding for one on one aids in the classroom, Kindergarten automatically has a teaching assistant so he will benefit from the one on one he will get.  Plus it appears to be a very small class starting in September!

There was a grand march as each child walked into the gym and the teacher, Mrs. Kaiser read about the child's likes and interests.  Armin had a heart warming smile stretching from ear to ear on his face as he walked in, such a sweetheart!  Each child was given a diploma and an award specific to how they affected the lives of the teachers in the classroom.  Armin was given the Character Award because he always managed to make his teachers smile, he got their humour too!!! 

He had brought a bear to Kindergarten for show and tell that he had gotten for Christmas and he was asked what his bears name was.  In a gruff voice he says, "his name is go to bed Armin! and his middle name is I don't care!"  He told Mrs. Moore that there were rocks in his shoes and she said back to him at least there weren't rocks in his head, to which he laughed hysterically!!! They set up chairs for all the guests coming to the Kindergarten grad and after they were all finished Armin looks back and says in quite a concerned voice "what if no one comes?"  His little mind is always going, always thinking the next thing. 

He is my baby boy, my little spider monkey!  I am proud of how far he has come in the last year and how much he has grown!! He definitely deserved the Character Award!!!!