George the Graduate of 2007

Last week before we left for Kauai, George graduated from kindergarten! I can hardly believe that he is already graduating, it seems like he just started school. Of course, the graduation was truly Hawaii style with leis for the kids up to their ears and a complete program just from the graduating kindergarten class. The principal announced the classes, the students filed into place, the students presented "God Bless the USA" song and then each student recieved his/her diploma. After the ceremony the students returned to their classrooms and took pictures, handed out leis to classmates and danced (literally, the kindergarten teacher taught the students to slow dance, complete with turns, dips and one hand held and one hand on waist). To top off the day, George's teacher gave each one of the graduating boys a tie for graduation that is to be their future "missionary" tie, so they remember to go out into the world and serve! I asked George what he learned this year and his response was a line that his teacher had the students repeat everyday at the start of class, "To be the best that I can be, the chioce will always be up to me." You really do learn life's keys to success in kindergarten!