End of School Year Festivities

The last few weeks of school always prove to be a whirlwind as there are award ceremonies and parties. Interestingly enough, at Camden's school they only have an awards ceremony for 8th graders, but I will still toot his horn because he had an awesome year with straight A's in all TAP (Tomball Advanced Placement) classes, and we couldn't be prouder!

Casen's campus is a Great Expectation campus which means they promote a culture of respect and academic excellence. They teach different life principles and expectations for living. At the awards ceremony, each child was given an award based on one of the life principles. I had to chuckle under my breath when certain students who are known to have more 'energy' than others were generally given the word 'curiosity'. :)  Casen said in his particular homeroom, his classmates had input on what word each student should receive. When his homeroom teacher, Ms. Whitley, was announcing the awards and got to his name, her microphone cut out and I completely missed his word, or so I thought. I immediately texted Shane, who was standing on the side of the cafeteria, and asked him what exactly Casen's word was since apparently I missed it. Well, going back and looking at my video, it wasn't that I missed it, I just didn't understand the word or didn't even know what it meant, for that matter! His word was Esprit de Corps and on the award it is described as 'devotion among members of group for each other and the group's purpose'. Not one other student received that word on their award which he and I both agreed was pretty special.

Casen also received an award for Distinguished Honor Roll (all A's) all year as well as Perfect Attendance in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th nine weeks. 

Casen and Ms. Whitley

Me and my smart boy!

Casen also received another award in class from Mrs. Adams, which was the 'Zero Gravity Award. This award went to a student who lifts others up. 

Every year, I receive a picture from Emily Adams with her daughter, Charlotte and Casen. Mrs. Adams is a teacher at Northpointe and Casen was fortunate enough to have her this year as his science and social studies teacher. It sure has been fun watching these two grow up!

Of course before we headed out for our last day of school, we had to take our 'Last Day of School' pics.

                                        

Casen first day vs. last day (he intentionally
wore the same shirt)

Camden first day vs. last day

Shane was given the task of getting a picture of Casen with each one of his teachers.

Mr. Henze

Mrs. Adams

Mrs. Whitley

Casen had an end of the year party and was not opposed to me crashing his party!

Grayson, Casen and Ross

Casen, Tristan and Minh

I apparently missed the day Casen actually received his medals from Field Day. You may recall that he received first and second place in the relay as well as first place in the scooter race. I, of course, made him pose with his medals.

I still really can't believe that 5th and 7th grade have so quickly come to a close. Even the boys agreed the year flew by. We are looking forward to having a fun summer and hope that time slows down just a bit for us to really enjoy it.