The end of the school year was a little hectic with end of school year activities and track and Annie, but not having kids at the grade school really kept our May a bit more mellow than typical. I feel like there are generally lots of end of the year activities at the grade school, but less of those "extras" at the other two schools. So although we did have plenty of activities during the end of the year crunch, it felt more manageable than our usual.
Track really filled up our May.
Between middle school and high school track meets, we had 3-4 meets every week. Track will have its own post, but it needs to be mentioned here as it was a big part of our May.
Adelie and some of her friends worked hard on their World Day booth for school.
Jaci, Stella, Sadie, and Adelie worked hard on their research, their bulletin board, their pamphlets, and their churros to represent Spain. They did a great job!
We enjoyed some Mother's Day time together with Uma...
and Grammie!
It's always good to spend time with family.
Briggs played in his end of the year band concert, and we attended Adelie's end of the year chorus concert as well. Staley had to drop chorus for her last quarter for driver's ed, so that decreased our end of the year school music commitments by one.
Briggs "graduated" from the DARE program with his class. His group was one of the groups chosen to perform their original DARE song. It was great!! Although do we really need to be celebrating our middle schoolers not doing drugs? I feel like that's maybe an expectation.
As a parenting fail, we did not attend Adelie's award ceremony. She got awards for straight A's, top 5 AR points for reading, MAP growth, student council, and she had the top reading MAP test score for her entire grade. Even though we weren't there to see her get her awards, we are so proud of her hard work. Staley chose not to attend the EHS awards night, but she also got an award for straight A's.
We also made time during the month to spend time with friends...
do some running (with friends),...
and some babysitting too.
There were also a few graduation parties to attend. Reagan was one of Staley's favorite senior runners from cross country and track.
We celebrated the last day of school with all the kids having some friends over. Adelie hung out with Everly, Anna, Stella, and Annaleise.
Briggs invited Freddie and Bryli. I did not get a picture of Staley and her "friend" as it was also sort of a date. Trying my best to not be an embarrassing parent.
It was a good May, but the kids were all ready to say good-bye to the school year and hello to summer vacation. Here we go...
