The other day, we attended Cole and Lena’s graduation ceremony at a local Montessori school. Cole graduated from the Sunflowers class (pre-K) and will move on to Kindergarten in the Fall. Lena graduated from the Honeybees and is now a Lovebird. When Cole first started at the school, he entered in the Lovebird class.
As a part of their ceremony, they both performed in front of the school — oddly both of their classes sang “hands and fingers, knees and toes” — Lena’s class in Japanese, Cole’s in Spanish. All of the kids were really cute — a few of them spent their time up there bawling.
Laura had to leave after the ceremony, so I was on my own during the reception where the kids ate and ran around like crazy. The highlights were:
- Lena found the strawberries. She stood next to the serving plate and chose them one at a time. She would choose one, take a bite, and put the half-eaten strawberry back. I kept getting her to stop only to find her back again. I think she got at least 15 half strawberries this way.
- Sophia’s Mom, Laurie, called to me across the gym — Lena had jumped off the stage. Apparently she saw a 6 year old jump so she decided to do it too. Lena claims she landed on her feet then ran up the stairs to do it again. She wasn’t hurt, though she was bleeding from a separate incident before I got them back to the car.
- And Cole was very cooperative.