Paige: 8th Grade Graduation

Paige our youngest granddaughter graduated from St. Phillips Parochial School yesterday.  I had the day off, so we ventured North.  Our daughter Trica could not attend, she is in the Nurse Practitioner Program and had to be up at UND this week.   Tough to be two places at once..many miles apart.  I took lots of photos so she would feel better about the whole situation.

Paige with her candle.

Paige getting her diploma.

There was a slide show.

Baby Paige

Little Paige

Paige  mostly grown up! This photo for the slide show was taken by Auntie Jen.

Paige and her Dad.

Paige did some of the artwork for the program and she gave a wonderful speech during the Graduation Breakfast.  She was hardly nervous at all speaking in public!   After Graduation and the Graduation Breakfast the entire class spends the rest of the day together.  Next year they will all venture off to the Public High School.

  Congratulations Miss Paige!:)

Imagination

Paige our youngest granddaughter is in the fifth grade.  The fifth graders put on a live wax museum for their entire school and parents, grandparents..etc.. she was going to portray Helen Keller.  We discussed what she should wear, and how she should do her hair. 

The big day was on Thursday. We heard from her mother that curlers were put in her stick straight hair, and when the curlers were removed she nearly passed out because they were pulling her hair.  She recovered from her faint while lying down and having the rest of the curlers removed.

We drove up for the afternoon.  We hung around in the hallway waiting for the next viewing.   We were greeted by Madison whose class was going down the hall, and a teacher who reported that Miss Paige had a temp and possible strep throat and was sent home at noon. 

But the show must go on.  These kids did a great job, some of their imaginations were soaring to new heights.  The premise is this..they pick a person and research that person, then they make a backdrop and dress like the person would have, then during the viewing they are to hold a pose. 

These are a few of my favorites..

 Wyatt Earp..missing the a.  I wanted to reach right over and fix it for him.

 Orville Wright..who stifled a smile when I told him he had a handsome moustache.

Harry Houdini..in a long underwear straitjacket.

 Grace Kelly..this is a fifth grader..goodness sakes..kids are growing up fast these days.

 A missing Helen Keller..

 And the winner is..Steve Irwin..I thought this young gentleman was the spitting image..

I followed a class of second graders through the exhibit..they told me while I was standing in line that they heard there was a famous ball player, a cowboy, a astronaut and a princess inside.. I asked if they knew who the princess was..they said they didn't know.. but maybe it would be Sleeping Beauty.  I suggested Gene Autry for the famous cowboy, then Roy Rogers..they had not heard of those cowboys.  Now the ball player ..they figured out it would be the Babe and it was.

Imagination seems to be alive and well in the fifth graders at Paige's school:)