It was graduation week at Katherine's school. They were busy taking pictures, singing songs, doing skits, and preparing for many performances for the parents to watch.
These are two of Katherine's friends standing in front of the rock climbing wall inside her school.
All of the kids were getting ready for the dances to show the parents. They had a photographer take pictures of everything and then gave some to the parents. I love the natural shots :)
Outside with 2 other friends
They had a Daddy daughter fashion show. It was great. Katherine said that she wanted them to both be in pink....can you believe we found a pink shirt for Jonathan? :) They also made some accessories for the show. They made a purse for Katherine with a pink pink flower on it and a matching flower for Jonathan's hat. She got so nervous when it came time to do it.
Singing one of the songs...I will try to post some videos later. If I get them to upload, I will put the links here.
After all the ceremonies, Katherine got her picture made with everyone outside. She was a daddy's girl for sure on this day.
After graduation, the entire class and their families went out to eat at a restaurant. Katherine and Jonathan went ahead of the rest of us because she wanted to make sure she got to sit at a table with her friends.
This place had and ice cream station and a fondue machine and everything! The kids were not very interested in eating "real" food with all the sweets around.
For some reason, it seemed the favorite was tomatoes dipped in chocolate. (not me)
The ENTIRE class started playing the crazy claw game that I never let my kids play because you NEVER win. Since it was a special day, we let Katherine play with her friends.
And guess who won!!!
Besides graduation, Lauren's class had several activities for the parents to attend. The most interesting was the "fruit architecture" competition. That's my word for it anyways. It was the entire zhongban grade. Each table had 4 kids and their parents and a bunch of fruit. They judged them all afterwards and Lauren's table won 1st prize. We really didn't contribute to the idea for it just cut the fruit we were told to and passed it along :)
Some college girls came over for a few hours to learn how to make chocolate chip cookies. That is always fun :)
Katherine had a dance performance and did very well.
This was on the way down to the stage area before they have their hats on. They were all given little diplomas, but it turns out that they were fake and just for pictures. Katherine said that there was an apartment advertisement in them.
Here was a cool little craft that we tried. We took salt, added a piece of colored chalk and it became colored salt for a craft project! It was lots of fun! We did it to go along with the story of :Lot's wife turning to salt.
