Last Day of Kindergarten

Friday morning began with a bang.  It was supposed to pour down rain like crazy, and no one was excited about that.  Lila's grade was told that they would have to race their box cars indoors--boo!  A few of us moms suggested the blacktop since the rain was holding off, and the teachers agreed.  Hooray!  This event simply wouldn't be the same in the kindergarten hallway.

Each class had a boy car and a girl car.  We went with a Pool for President theme since it's an election year, and we think she'd make a stellar candidate!

The first race was girls against boys.  GO LILA!  It was a little hard to tell who won because her class has so many more boys than girls.  It was still fun, though.

The second race was more heated and each class ran against the others.

With the help of our resident speedster, Lila, and a lot of fast boys, like Jackson Reed, Mrs. Pool's class won!

The last race was for the teachers.  Mrs. Pool came prepared to win, running shoes and all.

And she did it--beating out Mrs. Rea by about 5 feet!

Pool for President!

If we would have had a Room Mom Race, I'm confident that Abby and I could have won that, too.  We worked hard on our cars!

The rain held off for these sweet kids and the kindergarten race tradition lived on.

The kids played a few games and then signed frames with their K photo in it.

They had pizza and popsicles and got to watch a little show, too.  

I'm so very thankful that Lila had such a wonderful teacher this year.  She was loving, kind, patient and taught our sweet girl how to read and write like a champ.  The perfect kindergarten teacher.
We really couldn't have asked for more.

Lila will miss her dearly next year, but knows she'll always be able to visit and get a great hug.
We all love Mrs. Pool!