the last of the 5th grade shenanigans

i think this is the last of the end of the year crap, i mean, stuff.

and this is why we call the last day of school free babysitting!

on the last day of school the 5th graders get to participate in a school-wide parade. the whole school comes out to the basketball courts and the 5th graders parade around it while everyone yells and blows bubbles, whistles, etc.... it is quite fun. (although i really liked the way they used to do it where everyone came out of their classrooms and they would go around the ENTIRE school and a dj would be blasting music in the courtyard.)

sarah and her buddies looking like rockstars!

she thought she was cool with my glasses on. the real reason was it was either this or her squinting in all the pictures.

if you enlarge this one you can maybe find her throwing a "peace-out" your way. i am told that's the "in" thing these days. (do they really know it's really just something old that has circulated once again? probably not.)

the 5th graders also get to make their own sidewalk chalk and then one afternoon they get to decorate the courtyard with it. sarah is sitting proudly next to her goodbye to hl johnson.

this is where i'z went to school.

goodbye hlj!

more 5th grade stuff

here are a few more 5th grade things. i swear i am going to get the rest done before she starts middle school. these are from the luncheon and the awards ceremony. apparently her hands were more interesting than her teacher getting a sword through his neck!

did you think i was kidding?
sarah says these are "the best teachers EVER!" i must agree because if you can make kids excited about being at school than you've got talent!

the 5th grade awards ceremony was fun. her teachers did a special tribute their class. i was going to post them but decided not to bore you all with those details as we would be the only ones to truly appreciate them.

sarah trying to hide from the camera and the 5th grade awards. i don't know why she does this as she is well aware that the pics, good or bad, go on the blog.

with the principal

dance little sister!

sarah is finishing up her last year in elementary school and they are going out with a big bang! here are the pics from the "dance". (and i use that term very loosely) as you can see it was a luau theme. a good time was had by all. i know there are a lot of pictures and clips but they are quite entertaining. the three musketeers

yes, sarah is actually up dancing.

i love this picture of sarah. she is totally giggling like the little school girl that she is.

watch out for the dude on the left. he looks like he's had WAY too many juice boxes! thank goodness his mom came to get him and he didn't ride his skateboard home. and i think hannah, the girl in front, is trying to throw some kind of gang sign. kids these days!

and, as promised, the video of sarah in action!

this was one of the girl's favorite numbers of the night. it was only played like 3 times unlike that new black eyed peas song that the dj played 5,876 times. (not kidding) and you have to check out the kid in the background at the end of the clip. he's in sarah's class and she said "dylan has like 145 lais on and he is like really sweaty and ewww." so i told her to be quiet and go have fun like he's having or else i am going to get up and dance to the beyonce single ladies song. she promptly went out on the dance floor and started "boogying" (is that even a word?) because she knew i wasn't kidding. and seriously, it might look cute when you're in 5th grade, but it's not pretty when I start doing it! (at least that's what my girls tell me when i do it at home.)


the ever popular cha-cha slide. i say you can never have too much of that! (or can you?)


this one is always a party fave. but what i really wanted was for you all to see the hot mom with her bare midruff. please! it's a 5th grade dance! cover yourself up woman! if not for us, for the sake of the children!

it's that time of year

sarah has been quite the busy bee with school activities lately and for some reason some of them have not been posted. can i get a big DUH! (thanks.) i will only post two of them right now. the dance will have to have it's very own post. fun video of sarah ACTUALLY dancing! (she will kill me when she sees it posted!)

first up are the pics from the drum concert. i was trying to get her not to participate b/c i am a lazy parent that way, but glad she insisted since it was way cool.

her and her buddy, katrina

here are the pics from field day. glad i only went for the afternoon. (it was sooooo HOT!) and none from savannah's (the day before) as hers was cancelled due to massive thunderstorms. that's florida for ya!this was the relay where they had to fill up a bucket of water with a cup that had a hole punched in the bottom. at first i thought they were kidding when they told me, but they were not.
sarah's class. can you find her teacher? if it weren't for his mustache he would blend right in with the students! (he's a little height challenged. hee hee! sarah LOVES her teacher.)

with her buddies, becky and katrina

the tug-of-war finale that they won! yay sarah's class! (seriously that girl all the way to the right in the picture is WAY tall and she's in sarah's class!)