Last Day of School

Well, we made it to the last day of school.  There have been so many activities in the last two week of school that it has been difficult to get to everything but I think we managed to join in in all the fun.  Last Wednesday was the last day of school. 

I joined Ali at her school building for the Early Years leaving assembly in the morning.  Ali received her swimming certificate.  She has achieved level two this year.  This stage focuses on developing safe entries to the water, including jumping in, basic floating, travel on the front and back up to a distance of five metres, and rotating the body to regain an upright position.   She was very proud of herself.  The leaving assembly was also a time to say good-bye to friends that are leaving, Grace and Nils.  Grace is going back to England and Nils is off to Qatar.  We are sad to see them go.  Fortunately we still have Nils around until August.  After singing a few songs and saying good-byes the leaving assembly was over and the kids headed back inside to have some fun. 

I picked Ali up early from school to bring her over to the primary school.  School was a half day and the primary leaving assembly was from 11:00 - 12:00 followed by a BBQ so I didn't want to miss anything to pick Ali up at twelve.  I'm glad I did because Ali joined right in with Sofia's leaving assembly and sat right next to Sofia for the entire time.  Again good-byes were said to all the kids and teachers leaving the school this year.  For our kids that means saying good-bye to Olav, Lars, Sofie, Jose Miquel, Alex, Sophia, and Louis.  Each class did something different for the children who are leaving.  Sofia's class made a book for the two children leavingfrom her class.  The book was made with everyone in the class making one page with either writing, drawing or pictures of the children.  It was very cute and a really great memory book for the kids to take away with them to their next home.  The assembly also included the kids singing songs which they all seemed to have a lot of fun doing.  Here is a video of one of the songs.