Mexico

While in Mexico every morning we would get up with the tide being out. The rocks were exposed which meant happy hunting of crabs for all the kids. Then the peddlers would come and want to sell you anything they could. By the end of the trip even the little ones were saying, "No Gracias". Majority of the time was spent in the ocean catching waves. Cameron was sweet to show Emersyn how to ride the waves the first day they got in. After that Emersyn would spend hours and hours with the waves. Ellie and Cameron both were our other main wave catchers. I couldn't believe how many hours they would spend in the water. It made for early bedtimes. There were also times we just wanted to sit and watch the waves come in. We had a lot of fun but our kids come back grateful for the things they have.

Let the swimming begin

School is out for summer and we are ready to swim. We were invited over to some friends this afternoon for a pool party. Even though the clouds were out we were still ready to celebrate no school until August 10th. Swimming is one thing my kids never get tired of. If you have a pool in your backyard, watch out we're coming to jump in..... I'm really crossing my fingers next year we will have a pool of our own.

6th Grade for the rest of our lives.....

"6th grade for the rest of our lives we miss you already..." this is a song the 6th grade has been singing. It brings tears to my eyes knowing that Cameron will not be attending Canyon Rim anymore. He started Canyon Rim the first year it was opened as a kindergartener. Hard to believe that much time has passed. Mrs. Cummard was a great teacher for Cameron. I was a little nervous at first but found the year very successful.

End of year awards

Monday at school Cameron and Kaelyn had an awards assembly. Kaelyn and her team earned the first place prize in the Battle of the Books. This is a cool thing for only fifth and sixth graders to participate in. If a student is interested they find others to form a team. There is a list of books they are to read. The list would contain 4 books. Every few months they would meet for a "battle" against other teams. However, each "battle" pretained to a different list of books. The librarian would get questions from the books they read with each team being given points according to their answer and if it was correct or not. Kaelyn's team tied for first. The other team was chosen to go to District to "battle" against other schools.
Cameron was presented a trophy for being Student Body Class President this school year. I think he had a lot of fun and he did a mighty fine job. Cameorn only has 1 more day of school as a 6th grader attending Canyon Rim. In the Fall he will attend Desert Ridge Jr High. There's no way he is that old!!

2nd Grade Awards

On Friday Ellie had an awards ceremony in her classroom. Her teacher, Mrs. Andrews, also prepared a slide presentation of pictures taken throughout the year. It was quite funny...Mrs. Andrews had put music to the slide show but you couldn't hear it over the cheering of the kids when they saw themselves in the pictures. Mrs. Andrews presented Ellie with the "Best Friend in Class" award. She said Ellie was always there to be a friend to everyone. That is definitely our Ellie..always making friends wherever she goes. Now, if we could only figure out how she could be friends with her siblings....

Kindergarten Program

On Thursay Emersyn had her kindergarten program along with an end of the year party. Emersyn was too shy to have a speaking part but she looked cute singing all the songs. Afterward we went into her classroom where her teacher Ms. Bonadio put together a slide presentation of pictures taken throughout the year. Ms. Bonadio has been great with Emersyn this school year. Emersyn has had some tough days of not wanting to go to school but both Ms Bonadio and Mrs. Robinson loved her and helped her enjoy her days. Hard to believe in just a few days Emersyn will be in first grade.

Ballet

Our good friend Robbin teaches ballet. Kaelyn, Ellie and Emersyn all wanted to take her class. Saturday they had a ballet demonstration that showed all the ballet moves they learned. I thought they did a great job. I was so proud of all of them. They will have the summer off but will start again.