Nathaniel's Kindergarten Graduation

Our kindergarten graduate...when I heard they were going to do graduation from kindergarten, I was really curious. I'd been surprised last year when they had a graduation from preschool, so I guess I should have expected one from kinder.
They had a very cute little ceremony - at the beginning of the school year each child had been asked to bring in a binder. All year long they'd put special pieces of art work in these binders. And they'd made scrapbook pages with pictures from different events (one of these days I need to scan some of those pictures for my own scrapbooking!). The kids had not seen the final binders, so they were dying to get their binders and see what all was in them.
The teacher said a little something about each of the kids as she called them up to get their diploma and binder.
Nathaniel was the 2nd or 3rd kid called up, which was nice, because by the time kid #24 or whatever was called up, Grace was beyond sitting still so I could really pay attention. I videoed Nathaniel's presentation with the camera,but for some reason I can't get it to upload to the blog.
Nathaniel enjoyed kindergarten, but he was so ready for summer vacation!!

With Mrs. Veryla (the class aide...she was the class aide to the other 6th grade class way back in the good ol' days when I was in 6th grade!)

With his teacher, Mrs. Lang...one of the first few days of school, Nathaniel asked me if Mrs. Lang had been my teacher (valid question since his classroom was the same one I'd had for kindergarten)...I told him no, in fact, she hadn't even been born when I started kindergarten...