Davis' Kindergarten Graduation

Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten



Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at the elementary school.



These are the things I learned:

Share everything.

Play fair.

Don't hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don't take things that aren't yours.

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life.

Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.

Be aware of wonder.

Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup -- they all die. So do we.

And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: look.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living.

Think what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world -- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.



Well ~ it's official! I am the mommy of a First Grader.....where has the time gone?

The Graduating Class of 2011



Davis got an AR award for reading and testing (and passing the tests) on 63 AR books - pretty good for a kid that only attended one semester.



Each child received a diploma........



Then walked off that stage into First Grade.



Or more importantly to Davis: staying up late, camping out in the living room with Dad, sleeping late, swimming with buddies, getting swimmers ear, visiting with family in Georgia and Anniston, a Barons game with the t-ball team and VBS - and that was just the first two weeks (which would explain the lack of blogging recently)

So - happy summer to you! May your days be filled with sunshine and your nights be filled with lightning bugs!