Kindergarten Graduate!

Very exciting, DuckyBoy is now officially a first grader. His "Moving Up" ceremony was today; they sang lots of songs, the last of which was "Move Me Up to the Next Grade" (to the tune of, "Take Me Out to The Ball Game," very cute).

He did best on "Baby Beluga," clearly knew the song the best and the hand motions as well. He reprised the poem "Humpty Dumpty," including the hand motions, for us afterwards. So clearly he enjoyed taking part.

And he stood next to his rock-collecting buddy from the playground -- a little girl from one of the other classes with whom he sometimes collects bits of the playground cement and drags it home. (I wonder what her parents do with the bits of cement.. I am thinking of a "goodbye ceremony" to return them to the playground...)

We met with the principal on Monday morning, she reassured us (and checked in the classroom) there was no policy to exclude anyone from the ceremony, the only thing that happened was they removed him from the practice on Friday. She said the teachers seemed shocked he thought he would not be able to participate. Later Monday I was skeptical that was the real story, but now that it's over and done with I feel much more charitable.

And very proud of my first-grader!