Weston's 5th Grade Promotion

Later on in the evening, on the same day as Aaron's promotion, we had Weston's promotion! Weston had such a fun time at his promotion. The school's theme this year at school was peace, love and learning. So, at graduation, they gave all the 5th graders peace headbands and colored glasses!! Weston thought that he was so cool!!! :) The classes all came through this bus thing. Unfortunately, Barth got very, very ill that day, in addition to all the poison ivy that was going on at our house, and was not able to go to the graduation.
We got there early (the kids and I) and snagged awesome seats on the 3rd row. At the same time, the family of our favorite pediatrician in our practice also sat down, right in front of us. I felt sorry for them because Evan was so active and was up and down the entire time. They said that it was okay with them. This is the first year our Dr's daughter wasn't in the same homeroom class as Weston. Weston was really so happy about graduation. They go all out for the kids. The children all looked so fancy in their nice clothes. Here they had the kids turn around and wave at their parents before they started with the awards and program.

Weston got several awards that night. He got a certificate for the highest grade for the year in his social studies class! :D He also got awards for academic team and all A honor roll. Then they announced the children one by one, by class, for their graduation. There were 5 Fifth Grade classes and Weston's class was in the middle. This is probably the only time, ever that he won't be last when graduating. :D


Weston loves to be funny! When he was crossing the stage to get his graduation certificate, he turns to the audience and motions with his hands to "come on.....give me more applause!" I will have to see if I can upload the video. It was too funny!!! He is definitely his father's son!!!!!!! :D After everyone had graduated, they played a slide show that included pictures of all the children in 5th grade. You know, the pictures that they take for the year book. It was so nice. After that, there were pictures of the activities that they did throughout the school year. It was all set to music. The graduation started at 7 (but we had to get there at 6:30) and ended at about 9:20. It was pretty long, but so fun!



Afterwards there was a reception in the cafeteria with cupcakes (with yellow and blue icing- hence the blue mouths) and punch. We found Weston hanging out with one of his friends from this year at school. We found out that he lives just a few houses down from our pool! We will have to have him over to play this summer!

Our happy graduate! I can't believe that he will be going to middle school in just a few short months. Someone pause time please!!! How did my little Westy Pesty get old enough to be such a nice young man?

Weston and his homeroom teacher, Mrs Ives. Most of the 5th graders had 4 different teachers. Weston had just 3 because Mrs Ives also taught the advanced math class for 5th grade. That class was where they had the 6th grade math in 5th grade. His average score in that class for the entire year was a 100! (And it was not an easy class!!) He also made the all A honor roll every time. No surprise there, but one thing to remember is that here, an A is a 94 or higher, and and B is an 87 to 93! He worked hard this year, as he always does, and had a great year as the top dog of the school!!!

Every year, at the end of the school year, the 5th graders get to sign the cafeteria half wall. Here is Weston pointing to his name. During the summer they paint over it, but I think that it is a cool tradition that they let the kids do!

Here is Weston under the balloon arch that they had in the rotunda of the school for the promotion ceremonies! Happy Graduation Weston!

The teachers decorate the fence every year for the 5th grade graduates! It stays up the whole next day when the 5th graders have a day of fun! On the last day of school, they had a cookout outside in the courtyard for the 5th grade. They had an afternoon of fun games, (liking having to eat through a cool whip pie using only your face, until you found the 3 gummy worms), a photo booth, fun t-shirts just for them, more treats than you could ever imagine, water balloons, etc! Weston was on cloud nine that day. But a little sad too, that his elementary years were done. He has had such good teachers throughout all his years at elementary school! He is getting to be quite the grown up young man! I know he will do excellent in middle school. He has signed up to play in the band next year----and to play the french horn! He originally wanted to play the oboe, but when he got to try out the instruments, decided that he really liked the french horn better! Congratulations Weston!!! We love you!